Workin' on the chain gang
Subtitle: shaking off the dead hand of history
By: Walter Mosley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The library of contemporary thought
Publisher: Ballantine Pub. Group; Ballantine Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- -- Forecasting; United States -- Race relations -- Forecasting; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Forecasting
Description: "Slavery was outlawed in this country more than a century ago, but Americans still wear chains. Each one of us, black and white alike, is shackled by a system that values money over humanity, power over truth, conformity over creativity. Race has undeniably made the problem worse, but race is not the root of the problem.".

"But each one of us can work toward breaking off these chains. First by recognizing the truth of our history - a history that is crucially informed by the black experience. Second by beginning to free ourselves from the noise, the often shallow, diverting entertainments, and an all-consuming economic system. The nation and its potentials are ours to command, but only if we work, individually and collectively, to cast off the chains of yesterday's politics and seize the freedoms that the future holds.".

"Workin' on the Chain Gang is a powerful examination of the American economic and political machine."--BOOK JACKET.