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I’ve had this book for a while now but only started reading it recenetly. Truth is I find it very brutal but I can’t put it down – Reason is I actually agree with the author the truth is just hard to hear. Dr Chika Onyeani literally tells it like it is describing black folk as the economic slaves that we actually are. Definately a good read and one I recommmend, not for the weak tho!
DR Chika Onyeani deals with themes that I can definately relate to, he mentions that we don’t produce anything and yet consume everything. He also speaks of the relentless persuit of success which is a philosophy I subscribe to 100%. We have a tendency to be apologetic about having a desire to be successful and thus apologetic in out persuit. One of the lessons I take away from this book is to definately position myself and associate with like minded “go-getters” keeping the company of watered down negative people with only dilute my husstle!! This is definately the book to start 2010 with, it may offend you with the brutality & blatency but trust me.. you need to hear some of this stuff.
I thought this book was one of the worst books I have paged through. Perhaps my initial expectations were substantially high. Regardless, the fact is that the lows of the book were unforgivable and at the very least inexcusable. Despite repeated grammatical and spelling errors, the themes and ideologies presented forth were not expansive, well-articulated and insightful. For an academic of his caliber and potency to come out with the fact that black people are consumers and not producers is quite disappointing. Any observant lay person can come up with that consumer/producer ideology. Dr Onyeani also failed to recommend proposed solutions and a scholarly way forward for the economic plight of the ‘capitalist nigger’. His so-called ‘road to success’ is simply a sham and really does nothing to uplift the ‘capitalist nigger’.