description: In The Scoundrel Syndrome, the author seeks to promote communal-racial healing by confronting the perennial evil of White racism and its 400-year cumulative, ugly by-products--metaphorically the "scar" of racism--including Black "sedimentation" and "kneegroism" in America. Accordingly, he postulates that the ideology-practice of White racism, including the failure to correct historic injustices, because a plurality of voters either accept or embrace far too many scoundrels as their leaders—electing or appointing people apparently like themselves, too often based upon ignorance and/or greed. For scoundrels, a relative-subjective term, are perpetrators of evil. Accordingly and generally, in the context of a racist society, the so-called "good White people," including genuine radicals and liberals--but excluding pseudo-liberals—are, most often, in the minority in America. Therefore, he posits that White racism has run amuck in America, under "an unholy alliance" with kneegroism, and often "hidden" under White nationalism and/or pseudo-patriotism, the latter as a very powerful, if not dominant ideology that has created-perpetuated our present "race mess." For Blacks are a marginalized-"sedimentized" out-group in society, being victimized continually by the "Roger B. Taney Syndrome"—relatively disrespected, devalued, circumscribed and stigmatized because of "race." Additionally, the author observes, that Blacks, as a group, psycho-spiritually.
language: English
title: The Scoundrel Syndrome: Essays on the African-American Experience
titlecomplete: The Scoundrel Syndrome: Essays on the African-American Experience
publisher: Airleaf