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Has to be read with an open mind | Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land | Randall Robinson

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	• Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land Randall Robinson, 2004 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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On Target but Depressing

Randall Robinson is a distinguished author, realist and American. He is also visibly of African descent, and that part of his heritage informs his thinking, acting, and existance as an American. Robinson sums up his discontents with American society well, although he sometimes wanders along when he could be sprinting. He points out clearly the attractions of a society which functions more like the society he wants in America but cannot find.
Robinson's book is another testament to the negative effects of racism in our culture, and to the deep roots of race-based slavery in the black American psyche. He tells it like he sees it, and he sees more clearly than most. At the same time, he provides few workable solutions and little hope for those of us who remain here battling with the oppressive atmosphere and devastating results of institutionalized racism. Robinson's portrait of St. Kitts is a siren song which many hear but most of us are tied to the mast, unable to loosen our bonds. And that may not be a bad thing for America, although it may remain a hazard for us personally.

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There are those idiots who will criticise R.R's book.
There are those who will dream up imaginary sacrifices that an Imperialist establishment has made for its victims.
There are those who choose to blame the victims instead.
But there are also the open eyed, open minded and wise readers who see RR's words and recognise them for what they are - he describes a boorish, illmannered, self obsessed nation - dangerous in every way.
Good jobRR.

Has to be read with an open mind

It is clear form Robinson's last books that he is a product of his time. Obviously, growing up under Jim Crow heavily scarred him and he like others of his generation have tried numerous ways, most of them fruitless, to deal with their pain and bitterness. While I do not enjoy reading or listening to such tirades, I understrand the source of whence they came.

That said, some of what he says here is accurate in regard to history and recent events, but much of this is grossly one-sided, as if everywhere outside of Europe was a paradise prior to 1492 and all other humans lived in purity. Fact is, the world in general was not that perfect then-or now. Also, much of this reads like a bitter and unfocused rant instead of a percise study of the problems of today's America.

Many people in the 1960s were understandably fed up with what was happening in America. No one can blame them for that then, but they soon found out that these problems would not be solved by chasing rainbows elsewhere (See MLK's speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963). If Mr. Robinson feels that he found utopia in St. Kitts, more power to him. But when he realizes that there is no complete heaven on earth, he may be in for further heartbreak.

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