White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay

by Star Parker

Book Overview

Decaying values. Sexually transmitted diseases. Fatherless homes. Rampant drug use. These aren't just problems for today's inner cities. It's the plight of all America. Much has been said about Bill Cosby's incendiary remarks about urban black culture and its "dirty laundry." But in this provocative book, Star Parker, one of today's most controversial commentators,?goes even further, proving that urban plight simply reveals a decay that is gnawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595550275
• ISBN13: 9781595550279
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Nelson Current
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

Star Parker gets a 5 star for this book. In our pursuit of happiness we have lost our moral base. Good book on what is wrong with this generation and how we got here.

An Awesome Book!!!

I grew up conservative, but going to college, watching lots of TV and working with teens, I slowly began to wonder if "liberals" could be right in some areas. Isn't helping the poor a good thing, and don't we want to be free to make choices? Star Parker clearly and boldly shatered the lies that I had begun to believe and has helped me to be more sure than ever of the biblical principles of hard work and Biblical morality. These fondations are the only way for "middle America" to help the poor and at the same time stop our own slide toward imorality and socialism!

Moral Decreptitude

The facts and statistics that Star Parker point out in her book are horrifying. The decline in morals coupled with the continuing failure of government programs has resulted in the decay of life in the inner-city. Although this decay of inner-city life is right in America's face, the same decay is happening in suburban Middle America--it is just hidden under wealth and privilege. The loss of values and morals mixed with the left's obsession at "adopting" the lives of inner-city Americans is a direct cause of misery for these very Americans. Star Parker does a great job at showing this. Because I am supportive of gay rights and same sex marriage, I found some of the book's rhetoric aimed at homosexuals a bit harsh. HOWEVER, whether or not you are supportive of same sex marriage, it's undeniable that some of the tactics used by proponents of gay rights are dishonest and manipulative. But this same dishonesty is practiced by liberals, democrats, republicans, libertarians, atheists and so-called civil rights leaders and Star Parker does a great job at exposing them all.

Brilliant, a wonderful truth

There is a reason a Brazilian call girl named 'Pacheco' is the 'hero' of middle class women in that country. There is a reason that 10% of all women attending college today from middle class backgrounds will experiment with being a stripper to 'pay for college'. It used to be that those forced into prostitution and stripping and the porn industry were the poor, now it is the daughters of the middle class, those who have the most opportunity choose to throw their lives away in search of 'sexual experimentation'. Liberal America and equality for women has merely created an entire class of women who have no dreams, no interest in partaking in the equality they were granted at birth, there only interest will be anal sex and S & M. The Middle class immoraltiy is tragic and sad, it doesnt beget more middle class people but rather the classic WASP rot of the 1970s. 80% of middle class born people, partitucular women, will end up poor, durg abusing, without families, sort of like Europeans. Luckily the engine of America has always been its poor and its immigrants. Seth J. Frantzman

Finally someone else is saying what everybody is thinking.

Yeah it is kind of all over the place, but her points are none the less excellent.