Born in the Wrong Country

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Born In The Wrong Country is about what the United States of America has neglected to do, things that this government have ignored when it comes to its own people. It deals with the White and the Black situation in America, the poor and other minorities, and of the hunger that faces the people of the United States. Mental hunger and physical hunger of what people want, and what people need are discussed. It doesn't just talk about today, but talks about the African American People of Color in this country, and ...

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Overview

Born In The Wrong Country is about what the United States of America has neglected to do, things that this government have ignored when it comes to its own people. It deals with the White and the Black situation in America, the poor and other minorities, and of the hunger that faces the people of the United States. Mental hunger and physical hunger of what people want, and what people need are discussed. It doesn't just talk about today, but talks about the African American People of Color in this country, and what this country has done to them. It points out how this government has taken away the spirit of a people, and possibly thrown away gifts, many gifts that could have possibly been given for the whole world to see and benefit from. Born exposes the reality of slavery and the kind of terrorism that went on throughout that slavery, a terrorism which was done so well that it did exactly what terrorism was supposed to do, by sticking with the AAPC through even to today.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780578000480
  • Publisher: Milton Lee Norris
  • Publication date: 1/28/2009
  • Pages: 232
  • Product dimensions: 9.00 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 0.53 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 19, 2009

    "Do you understand that slavery had an effect not just on the bodies, but also on the minds and spirits of a once highly spirited people?"

    "It seems as if I am feeling the pain that my mother, my father, my grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents felt," Milton Lee Norris writes. The ramifications of chattel slavery and institutionalized and intractable racism in the United States have never been thoroughly studied. In social critic Milton Lee Norris's stream of consciousness book-really an open letter to white America-the residual pain, humiliation, and righteous anger call from the pages.

    In this deeply personal book, written in the aftermath of the attacks on the U.S. on 9/11 and the subsequent wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, Norris, a first-time author, explains how he, as an "African-American Person of Color," feels about the present condition of Black people. His sense of betrayal from repeated repression including slavery, the failure of reconstruction, the climate of fear in the age of lynching, Jim Crow laws, segregation, entrenched racism, and ignorance and intolerance from the majority of white people has the essence of a red hot truth that has never been completely discussed or eradicated in the United States.

    But Norris's scope is greater than that. He makes scores of important points and no one escapes his scrutiny, including the government, the Bush administration, rich African-Americans, racists, homophobes, brutal cops, white Christian missionaries, war makers, Republicans, people who don't vote, people who misinterpret God's teachings, and swearing mothers who lecture their kids about using obscenities. He chides the U.S. for being the "land of amnesia and fabrication."

    The book is a traditional polemic. He calls for better healthcare, housing, education, assistance to the poor, justice, internationalism, and gay marriage. He makes the argument that "America," as an idea, has moved (perhaps to Iraq, where all of the money seems to be going) and deserted her people. While the strength of the book is its politics, its weakness is in the tone. When Norris explains issues and uses stories from his own life or the lives of others, his points come alive. Norris's passion for life and his deep sense of how things should be shines through. He also reveals himself as a vulnerable man who loves self expression and thought and who feels the bone-deep pain of discrimination and the historically significant ramifications of slavery. Norris asks, "Do you understand that slavery had an effect not just on the bodies, but also on the minds and spirits of a once highly spirited people?" Unfortunately the answer he finds most often is: No.

    Reviewed by ForeWord CLARION Reviews

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