Reviews by Pancho @ "Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority" By Tom Burrell

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority 🌀🌌

This large-sized book covers the many different aspects of black people that plague them today. The author of the book, Tom Burrell, does a lot to lay out the different ways that black people keep themselves stagnant. He looks at the stagnant behavior as a result of black people being brainwashed. Normally, I tend to creep back into my hole when I hear things that revolve around "crazy". But not for this book.

The author does such a great job of explaining how much the black race has played themselves by being overtly dependent, seeing black as ugly, tearing other black people down with ease, and not speaking out when black-on-black crimes happen. The brainwashing effect (As Burrell calls it), is by far the most destructive and toxic thing to happen to a nation(s). I include the (s) because the author goes on to explain how the brainwashing effect not only confused black people but white people as well. This is something that isn't talked about enough in our current time. The date of this book was 2011; Tom Burrell himself lays out a plan that black people should go by to unify themselves, disrupt the brainwashing, and cut the long toxic tie that was created in America.

This isn't for black people only or white people. This is for everyone; to show them that what was brought to this country was nothing constructive - but rather something that was created in the past and should stay in the past. Burrell did more than enough to lay out examples of why these things need to happen. It always hits the hardest when I relate to some of the problems discussed in this book. Overall, this one gets a 10/10. Great job to the author, his team, and his message. I personally hope and pray that this book gets into the hands of all people.

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