How to Move Black America Forward

By: Eddie Taylor PhD

Narrated by: Eddie Taylor PhD

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

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How to Move Black America Forward focuses on what has been done and what can be done to continue the progress of Black America. By looking at the perceived obstacles and the concrete solutions to keep moving forward, this book exposes Black America's strengths and potential that is filled with the possibility of becoming more than has ever been imagined by some.

Each chapter reveals the underlying strength of Black America and how that strength must be used to continue the momentum of forward progress. Dr. Taylor uses practical means to develop an approach to accomplish the task of moving forward.

©2018 Eddie Taylor, PhD (P)2018 Eddie Taylor, PhD

Eddie Taylor offers meaningful solutions

The resurgence of talk around reparations for American Descendants of Slaves [ADOS] has mainstream Black America abuzz. Attitudes pendulate between conditioned skepticism and utter dismissal, as in "no chance". Eddie Taylor's book, "How to Move Black America Forward", provides fodder for substantive discussion. While his book does not specifically address the subject, per se, it does offer tangible, strategic solutions that can galvanize Black America to meaningful, effective, and self-actualizing action.

In his chapters, "Race Relations" and "Talented Tenth", Eddie Taylor extols the virtues inherent in Black America, even illustrating how American citizens currently enjoy the benefits of civil rights that primarily were fought for and won by Black America. Like a museum curator, he systematically takes us on a strengths-based tour through the halls of Black American accomplishments. Here we are reintroduced to the Black Church and its role in unifying Black America. From such unification, strategic leadership emerged. Arguably, it is the organizational excellence of the Black Church that successfully engaged our country in civil disobedience, leading to a better life for future generations of all cultures. In the aptly entitled chapter, "You're Welcome", Dr. Taylor eloquently makes this point.

While I can understand the author's apparent goal of focusing on the bounty of strengths that Black America has in its reservoir, I would have appreciated further analysis of the deep-seated issues that tend to resurface even when meaningful advances have been made. Such issues pertain to the fragility of the family unit and the pervasiveness of chronically unaddressed mental health or normalized PTSD.

To his credit, however, the book covers the gamut of Black America's excellence, from its unprecedented fortitude to its innovation and brilliance that impact every aspect of life around the world. Culminating with the famous anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing", the author successfully leaves the reader with a sense of awe and expectation. We are inspired with the promise of a new level of greatness that the ever resilient Black America will undoubtedly achieve.