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Review title: Overly wordy, author's credibility is suspect
Product review: I had this book for a black studies class and wasn't especially happy with it. There is some content, but the author's overly verbose style makes it hard to extract. This book could easily have been 1/3rd the length and still made the points it made.The author himself is a strong Marxist, calling for things like "people owning the means of production". These ideas were tried for close to a century in Eastern Europe and created an incredible amount of misery and ultimately failed. Karenga also has a criminal past, and not for something admirable like getting arrested for a protest. Rather, he kidnapped and tortured two women. Among other things, he burned them with a soldering iron and forced detergent into their mouths. (do a search on "karenga conviction" to learn more)I still have an interest in the topic of Black Studies and would love to come across a better book.
