Pick a Better Country

by Ken Hamblin

Book Overview

The popular syndicated radio host argues that the American dream is still alive, as he attacks affirmative action, multicultural education, and media glorification of drugs and gangs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684843188
• ISBN13: 9780684843186
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Proud Aunt Jemina

Growing up on the outskirts of Darktown i.e. Brooklyn, NY, I know all to well what it's really like. I escaped Darktown, the Ashberry's of the world and becoming a Broodmare. I actually utilized and survived (!) the Public School system in NYC and graduated. I never fit in with the mentality of the people in Darktown, yes I think I am better than they are. I did not like being in a town where the epitome of success is how you can milk the system and how much $$ you make selling drugs. I escaped Darktown and I left without looking back! Am I sellout for choosing not to raise my little boy in a revolting Garbage dump of a city? Revering a disgusting rat infested town created by the people who claim to love the "ghetto" is absurd. Success and a proper education isn't "acting white." Understand that speaking proper English, learning science and arithmetic is one of the only ways to success. Ebonics is ridiculous, we are encouraging baby talk for black people! Would you encourage a baby to continue baby talk or encourage them to speak to be understood? I am not ashamed of my skin color, I am ashamed of the association people make with my skin color and Darktown! I am pursuing the American dream, I never dream of the "Ghetto." I am educated and successful in my life and there is nothing that Darktown can offer me. I have not turned my back on anyone, I have only looked to the future where everyone should be looking for themselves! The Dark Town mentality described in Hamblin's book is so accurate and true to life you can change a few minor details and have it fit the Darktown in *your* area! His political ideals and agendas are right on, we have to rid our country of the... liberals for Black people to truly be free from them (our)selves!Everyone should read this book -- black people so they can see for themselves that it is okay to escape Darktown and join other Americans in perusing the dream, white people and non black people so that they see we are not all like the those in Darktown. It should be on the reading list of ALL inner-city schools! KEN HAMBLIN FOR PRESIDENT!!

Straight Talk on the American Dream

This book, written in a punchy and engaging voice, is part memoir, part political diatribe and all truth.The American Dream is out there, in reach of every American. You work hard, you take risks, you invest the time, the money, the training, and you make a good life for you and your family. This is the archetypal American Story, it is Ken Hamblin's story, and, as Ken fiercely argues, it is a common story. It can be your story.Even if you're black, poor, and from a rough neighborhood.In his explication of the American Dream, Hamblin particularly attacks those that would force black Americans to be victims, from the "black thugs" and the "brood mares" that demand ever-increasing entitlements that can only destroy their own lives and the vitality of their communities, to the "poverty pimps" and the "egg-sucking dog liberals" whose own power depends on telling the black underclass that they are doomed to failure and victimhood, the only salvation lying in voting for the politician who will bring back a bigger bite of the welfare apple.Hamblin punches hard and talks straight, punctuating each chapter with correspondence -- both supporting and hateful -- he has received in response to his writings and radio show. Entertaining and informative.

Required reading for anyone living in darktown.

Darktown. Black trash. Brood mares. Ken Hamblin speaks the truth, a truth that is bare and bold and harsh. So harsh, in fact, that some reviewers make claims that he uses no facts and two sentences later cite his use of factual events in an attempt to disparage him. This book has driven the Left mad because a kid from the ghetto has learned that the American Dream is alive and well, whether you are black, brown, or white, if only you would embrace it. I think this book should be in every poor and rural school in the country. It is an outstanding tome on what it means to be an American.

This should be a must-read textbook for inner-city schools

Ken Hamblin is a first generation,self-made American. He does not use hyphens or letters to descibe himself. Instead,he calls himself colored or negro. In his book he illustrates the disservice done by liberals to blacks and other minorities in America. He points out the fact that the liberal's patrinization of minorities has done more harm than good because it fails to allow an individual to accept responsibility for their own actions. Ken Hamblin uses examples from his own experiences as a journalist. He also cites personal observations while traveling across America on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and in his airplane, of what he sees going on around him. Witty and at the same time hardhitting, he exposes the on-going liberal hypocrisy and how it rewards laziness,while simultaneously condemning achievement. He offers simple, easy to adopt solutions to this problem. He also prints comments from listeners of his syndicated radio program. America still works, the dream is still alive. The viewpoints are an American view. Very real, very informative, and very entertaining.

Ken Hamblin nails it!

Hamblin exposes the condescending, self-congratulating , self-serving liberal establishment that has exploited black Americans for the last 3 decades. The liberals, who claim to be so "tolerant", reveal their true intolerance when Hamblin speaks the truth about their leftist, anti-American agenda. He's a great American!