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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed Paperback – January 5, 2016

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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?

In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income students attend.

In theory these efforts are intended to help the poor—and poor minorities in particular. In practice they become massive barriers to moving forward.

Please Stop Helping Us lays bare these counterproductive results. People of goodwill want to see more black socioeconomic advancement, but in too many instances the current methods and approaches aren’t working. Acknowledging this is an important first step.

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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in suburban New York City with his wife and three children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books; Reprint edition (January 5, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594038414
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594038419
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Jason Riley is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he has written about politics, economics, education, immigration and social inequality for more than 20 years. He’s also a frequent public speaker and provides commentary for television and radio news outlets.

After joining the Journal in 1994, Mr. Riley was named a senior editorial page writer in 2000 and a member of the Editorial Board in 2005. He joined the Manhattan Institute, a public policy think tank focused on urban affairs, in 2015.

Mr. Riley is the author of four books: Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders (2008); Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (2014); False Black Power? (2017); and the forthcoming Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell (May 2021).

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Schatzi's Mom

Well done! Now we need it from another angle...

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014

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A tour de force: well researched, brilliantly presented. Most notably it conveys an immense body of information yet keeps the reader engaged. But it also feeds my confirmation bias. Needed now is an enlightened liberal response that meets the same criteria, one that might sell me on staying the course that’s been set, at least in part. Alas, I’ve learned to expect only a din comprising the picking of nits, knee-jerk outrage, whimpering and the obligatory ad hominem attack that nowadays displaces enlightened liberal thought.

Yet, I have to hope, because I need to understand why it now is necessary to prove a negative to maintain innocence, as Mr Riley succinctly points out. Why are the roles of prosecutor, judge and jury, even of the appellate court system, vested in the accuser? Why does SCOTUS, insulated by the Constitution from the fray, seem only to be able to kick the can down the road, and only when it can’t ignore the can? Do these people even go home at night?

Steven Carter’s experience with Harvard Law School absolutely resonated, as it would with anyone who has ever been subjected to discrimination in any sense of the word (that’s all of us). But, having found itself in a hole of its own making, this bastion of liberal thought in its infinite wisdom promptly grabbed a shovel.

So did the mention of Elizabeth Warren’s “collateral damage”: to my dying day, she’ll be Fauxcahontas and I will have to deal with the immediate, unbidden thought: “Is this latest utterance of hers a lie, also?” That will be followed by another unbidden thought: “…OK. So what’s in it for her?” This is not the way I want to relate to those who would lead us.

Well over a hundred years ago, Frederick Douglass pointed the way, as Mr Riley notes. But we still don’t get it, don’t see it, willfully ignore it. Meantime, the current ever-growing malignancy demands ever more time and money. And now it has legitimacy, and worse, momentum, neither of which escapes Mr Riley’s scrutiny.

Yes, I very much need that reasoned, traditional liberal response. And I suspect Mr Riley would welcome it, also. Meantime, read this book; it will use your valuable time enjoyably and well.

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This book was very well researched and very well written. Mr. Riley, at least with regards to responsibility for the failure of blacks to succeed, is essentially the anti-Obama. Obama says the reason why Blacks are not doing particularly well in American society is due to the inhospitable manner in which they are treated by the White population. Obama says that is because White America does not like anyone who does not look like them. Mr. Riley refutes such a notion and points to the success of the Asian community, one which also does not look like White America, but who has excelled beyond White America in almost all intellectual endeavors and is also a group that has almost no altercations with the police. Mr. Riley argues the Obama's rhetoric is encouraging Blacks to have little regard for law and order thus increasing the crime that cripples Black communities and also that Obama's attitude encourages Blacks not to put forth the effort to educate themselves. I agree with Mr. Riley's analysis, but I do question his saying that the minimum wage does not help the poor, but rather, hurts them because it eliminates jobs. Riley displays a lot of statistics supporting this assertion, but it is difficult for me to believe that is the case. Despite my disbelief regarding this point, I think that this is a must read book for Whites as well as Blacks, but I very much doubt that anything will change Obama's mind.

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Riley has written an excellent book which covers all the main issues...

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2014

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Riley, an editor at the WSJ, has written an excellent book which covers all the main issues that are damaging black people in America (except perhaps for their own collectivism and belief in coercion, as exemplified by their overwhelmingly Democratic membership). These are: the inferiority of public education, the drug war (although I'm not sure that his analysis as a conservative here isn't somewhat unduly moderated), the pernicious and counterproductive effects of affirmative action, of minimum wage laws, of unions, and of gun control.

Although he never says it or summarizes it in this way, the solution can be expressed in two words: more freedom. It is the lack of freedom, and the inability to experience the natural (and only the natural) consequences of their behavior that is damaging the black community. So, for example: if a) black people were free to own guns, they could protect themselves from gangs and violence in the inner-city, b) if black people weren't subject to minimum wage laws, they could work their way out of poverty, c) if blacks were free of the drug war, the normal profits of a legal market wouldn't entice their young people into gangs and drug-running, and if these lower profits still did, they wouldn't be killed, d) if black people were free from 'liberal welfare help', there would be far fewer unwed mothers and broken families, e) if blacks were free of affirmative action, their best and brightest wouldn't be stigmatized by the possibility of having received it and the others would be more motivated to study, and f) if blacks were free to choose their own schools, and not subject to the public education monopoly which drives out or makes it hard for good inexpensive schools to exist, they would have far better educational choices and thus far better outcomes.

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