Beyond Blame

By Armstrong Williams

A passionate, uplifting credo from one of America's fastest rising social critics. In a series of letters to a young black man who is trying hard to turn his life around, radio talk-show host and columnist Armstrong Williams presents his uncompromising views on the problems facing African Americans today, particularly those of black males.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029353653
• ISBN13: 9780029353653
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Get Rich Quick!11!!!!1!

Fine book by a fine, upstanding man, just doing what it takes to get by. *cough*payola*cough* I think that we all have something to learn from Armstrong Williams - namely, that being a shill for the Bush administration pays pretty damn well. $240,000 bucks to promote No Child Left Behind? Damn, for $240,000 I'd promote Let's Feed All The Children Into The Woodchipper.

The honest truth

At first when I read this book I thought I would differ with the author due to our different political beliefs. However, I could not have been so wrong, Mr. Williams just explains that so many of todays youth want the easy way out and get rich quick by any means necessary. I agree with Armstrong that you have to understand the value of hard work in order to succeed legitimately in America, and just because we grew up poor and black is no excuse. The liberals of this country really hurt our community more than helping us by saying we as black turn to crime, because there are no alternatives. I grew up in a small city in Illinois, but I saw so many opportunities for myself to succeed and it did not come from wearing Tommy, Polo, DKNY or other top designer clothing. My success came from my knowledge through education, because education creates options not a life of fast living sell drugs.

Great advice, now how do you get young black men to read it?

Williams describes a "bad" young black man in Washington DC, who asked for help, and Armstrong wrote him insightful letters, giving ideal advice that, if followed, would "save" the young man and his posterity. I now greatly admire Williams and hope he can communicate his beliefs to many more "Brads" who need this help, who will change their lives for the better.