A must read for all blacks living in America   January 7, 2004

The thing that most influenced me in this book is that we as black people need to take an aggressive approach to changing and leading our community. We as black americans need to stop looking to white people for our solutions, because we already have the solutions to many of our problems. And last of all we should stop hating one another and start appreciating the great ideals in our community. What makes this book so great is that it shines the spotlight on what is wrong in the black community, but also on ways of how to fix the things that are wrong in the community concerning education, poverty, job creation, business creation and self sufficiency.


An Excellent Read!   July 8, 2003
  7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book because I thought it was going to contain a whole lot of things that has been aleady said. Like, "the white man has done this or that." I was pleasantly surprised. This book had me glued to its pages. Carter G. Woodson was truly a visionary in his thoughts. He expressed everything in layman's term so as to not escape the average reader. The Black race has truly been miseducated and Wodson gives us specifics. Some of which I have thought of but never actually knew how to express. If you are studying the economics, politics of african-american history this should be your first read.


Every African-American must read this book and re-educate.   October 27, 2002
  12 out of 20 found this review helpful

Every Negro should read this book and be re-educated. Actually, the book is not just for all Afro-Americans but for all "minorities" such as Chicano, etc.

This is a great book; especially it is to be read by those Negroes that are in public office making decisions that can change the fate of members of the so called minorities in America.

Currently there are Negroes appointed to positions where they have to make decisions in cases like for Civil Rights, Discrimination, Courts of Justice, etc. However, those Negroes are not making the correct decisions in their cases, they have to work on, because they are mis-educated.

There are Negroes that are actually punishing minorities, including their own members, by applying, blindly, rules and policies that have been created to keep minorities at the bottom of the ill social strata created in America. Not to say, but tue, those policies and laws were designed to exclude minorities from the American society because, in the background, minorities are not considered made of human beings but they are just "minorities," or beings of an inferior capacity.

Thus, those Negroes "in charge" cannot use their own barred intelligence to see their own wrongdoing in their use of the policy or law; they think, in their stage of mis-education, that as Negroes they would be doing something wrong in a system where they are placed precisely to make decisions and serve justice but in paradox they actually hurt minorities.

I think this book brings to retrospection the self-identity of every Negro. The reading puts them in a "Y" path where they must make a decision on which path to walk on for the rest of their lives to assure that those labeled minorities in America should not be treated as minorities but just as citizens with equal rights to those of any other citizen despite color, origin, gender, age, and any other classification used in America to discriminate against other than whites (OTW).

I recommend this book for a five-star rating; this for the value and significance that it aids in assuring that the intelligence of the Negro will be used in America for good cause.

"Other Than White" (OTW) Copyright 2000-2002 Guillermo Ramirez.


Substantion??? Precursor to today's militant black escapists   August 31, 2002
  12 out of 57 found this review helpful

This books is quite overrated, though it has been in print for a long time.

The author neglected to put any citations of anything in the book, so far as I have read. Nor did he stick on some specific topic and go about addressing that, as opposed to writing in terms of sweeping generalities. Not helpful.

I KNOW that this will be fodder for Black Studies Departments across the country and it is going to be yet another one of the things that makes the problems in black education WORSE.

If this book were acceptable as authenticated information about what really DID happen in black education up to the time of publishing, it would be a guide to explain what is happening to this very day.

As it is, I can't see it as much more the prototype to some of the foolishness that infects the discourse on black education today.


fundamental book for separate, specific Black education and   April 11, 2002
  13 out of 26 found this review helpful

This book, written by an African American, was the first one to show that we Africans have a different soul than whites so that white education isn't fit for us and most of us can't cope with it. That the book was written in 1933 should make it a shame that Black-haters like David Horowitz spend all their energy abolishing Black studies and positive discrimination (in his racist, anti-Black books (Hating Whitey ; The Race card, etc.) Now there are many other books by African authors, some quite deep such as P. C. Luthuli's The Philosophical foundations of Black education in South Africa. And even some book by some friendly whites who accept to understand the problem and the need for a separate, all-black education system, I mean Jacqueline Irvine's Black Students and School Failure. A good recent African and practical book is Wilson's Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children. Let's praise people like Woodson, he showed the way for freeing us from the slavery of our minds and souls. Read this book and you will understand that slavery is not only physical, legal, but also a question of imposing us white education, thought, from which we also need liberation.