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What if the advice you’re told on how to live your life is outdated and will only make you miserable? “Go to school, get good grades, so you can get a good job, so you can attract a ‘quality’ woman, so you can marry her and have kids.” Despite the evidence it doesn’t work, it still gets pushed as the ideal to strive for. It’s time to reinvent what is the ideal life for a male.

Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the Black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the Black community’s ability to rise above poverty, live independent and successful lives, and be an active part of the American dream.