You make my very point, thank you. I gave you a list of some 11 books spanning 70 years and you refute the entire list because of the publication date of the largest published study of Blacks in America by the Swedish Nobel Prize winning economist; the work commissioned by the Carnegie Institute and presented to Rosevelt during WWII.

This type of ignorance-based castigation is typical of what has kept black intellectuals from the mainstream of thought in America. I suggest that continuance of intellectual xenophobia will only hasten the downfall of this society.

But, I suppose that within a nation that can sustain the Bush/Cheney regime as primary leadership for 8 years, one should not expect too much brilliance amongs a mass of its citizens.

And yes, I did read "Mein Kampf" and do believe it gave me a insightful grounding into the evolution of fascism and European racism; but I didn't stop reading there.