Dinesh D’Souza is sure to generate controversy with his new book, The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society (Free Press, 724 pages, $ 30). His dismissive attack on “liberal antiracism” will drive civil rights advocates and their political sympathizers to apoplexy. It will be denounced as a dangerously racist tract by every Afrocentrist demagogue still able to draw a crowd.
The publisher’s publicity calls The End of Racism a “sweeping” and ” bold” book that “challenges the last taboo” about racism. And the book is laced with incendiary sentences, like this one: “If America as a nation owes blacks as a group reparations for slavery, what do blacks as a group owe America for the abolition of slavery?” And this: “It is hard not to hear the triumphant roar of the white supremicist: ‘Forget about the legacy of racism and discrimination: these people are naturally stupid.'” Chapter titles, too. One section on behavioral problems among poor blacks is entitled “Uncle Tom’s Dilemma: Pathologies of Black Culture.” Another discusses race and IQ under the heading “The Content of Our Chromosomes.”
