'The End of Racism'

I'm currently reading 'The End of Racism', by Dinesh D'Souza. He's a brilliant scholar and a (slightly) controversial New York Times best seller. A little more than 10 years ago, he wrote this book concerning the origins of racism and it's course of life throughout American history.
A question I'll approach with MUCH more depth soon is 'Does racism still exist in America?' The answer to that is an unequivocally emphatic 'YES'!. Although, as D'Souza shows, in many different ways that we expect.
I wanted to start off this series by just quoting a few lines from the book that has really stuck out. D'Souza writes with great optimism, and one of the main objectives of the book is to show that racism is not universal, has not existed for all of humanity, and DID have a relative origination. Therefore, if racism had a beginning, then it's conceivable to believe that racism can have a...?? That's right, an end to racism. Again, we'll dive into this more, but realistically speaking, I don't believe we can ever see the end of racism without the church. The church should be eternally invested in breaking down racial barriers because in the family of God, there is one Lord, one Christ, one baptism, one faith.
Here are some great quotes:
- "Black rage is a response to black suffering and failure, and reflects the irrestistble temptation to attribute African American problems to a history of white racist oppression."
- If racism is not the main problem or blacks, what is? Liberal antiracism. "By asserting the equality of all cutlures, cultural relativism prevents liberals from dealing with the nation's contemporary crisis - a civilational breakdown that affects all groups..."
- What is the best defense against racism? EXCELLENCE

More to come...