7/31/2019 Book Review - "A Love Letter to Black People," by
Brian McClellan
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Raymond Lucas Book Reviews 2011
Book Review Raymond Lucas ~ September 2008
A Love Letter to Black People; Audaciously hopeful
Thoughts on Race and Success
Brian McClellans book,A Love Letter to Black
People; Audaciously hopeful Thoughts on Race and
Success, is a powerful appeal to African Americans
to re-embrace ways of thinking that were crucial to
our incredible legacy of resilience and
accomplishment.
Through an artful use of reflection, McClellan
examines the pathology of how our Blackness
evolves within us, flagged by mile markers of
experiences that define our personal perception ofwhat it means
to be Black.
More importantly, McClellan has researched how the Young Black
and Successful (YSBs) have
trumped long held assumptions, cultural architypes and
sterotypes by ignoring the evidence
that statistics overwhelmingly imply about the inevitability of
Black failure. McClellans
message is one of self love and love for the Black Community,
without which our glorious Black
culture cannot survive.
In a nutshell and through the insights of YSBs, McClellan
expresses the love and optimistic
mindset that Black People require, not just to achieve success,
but to be RESILIENT in the face
of the setbacks that we will inevitably encounter.
McClellan has created a Best Practices manual for loving
ourselves and the Black Community.
He has equiped us to ignore the so called evidence of inevitable
failure so we can continue to
add to the incredible legacy of the greatness of our people.
Raymond W. Lucas
President, 100 Black Men of Maryland, Inc.
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