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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
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“Black people are never dark-skinned white people,” says visionary Advertising Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage & the centuries of humiliation & deprivation that have taken out against the odds, constantly making a way out of the “No way!” At this crucial point in history, should have had the idea of black inferiority, a “going-out-of-sale business.” Finally, Barack Obama has reached America’s promised land.
But, as Brainwashed: Challenging the myth of black inferiority shows, too many in America still black walk through the desert. In this powerful examination “the greatest propaganda campaign of all time,” the masterful marketing of black inferiority, also known as the BI-Burrell Complex presents ten questions that annoying black people do look in the mirror & ask, is why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think & act like slaves. Burrell’s move into raise awareness of the power of words & images that shape & change in the collective consciousness led him into the contemporary & historical issues that have brought us into connect these lights.
Brainwashed is no blame, there is a call into action. He demands that we protect our self-destructive attitudes & behavior question. Racism is never the problem, how we respond media distortions & programmed self-hatred is the problem. It is time for the BI campaign with a global-scale initiative that the power of new media & the wisdom of the intergenerational coalitions reverse harnesses. into expose Provocative & powerful, dare Brainwashed, the wounds so that we can finally heal.
After reading Brainwashed: Challenging the myth of black inferiority, but I have one regret, it has made my role as a passive observer in question. It is now difficult to black comedians and rappers who laugh carelessly using the N-word, or endorse sexual promiscuity and violence. I can not dismiss the impact of the black films or TV shows, overdoing the black pathologies and folly. With disturbing clarity, the author draws connections between what a “Black Entertainment” today and what was yesterday’s promotion of heinous, humiliating, brutal and degraded black stereotypes. Retrieved from “Relationship wrecks” to “Neo-Coons” and in each chapter between Burrell details of a 18th Century masterful propaganda campaign that has effectively the notion of black inferiority and white supremacy embedded in society. With more concentrated, the author shows how blacks, like whites, have been conditioned unconsciously, expect black shortcomings. Not satisfied with simply identifying this insidious campaign, the author, a former advertising executive, compassionate Details of a “new media” strategy to win back to black heads and communities. There are many authors have investigated (Norman Coombs, E. Franklin Frazier, bell hooks), the psychological damage of slavery and oppression wrought iron. Burrell approach from an advertising / marketing perspective, but provides valuable perspective and in an increasingly media-dominated society.
Rating: 5.5
I have bought several copies to share Brainwashed with my family and friends, and I intend to buy more. This is a must-read book for black people – and everyone else. There is a growing popular movement for emotional healing and renewal for Black people in this country and around the world. As part of the Community Healing Network, a working group for emotional freedom for black people, I can report that Brainwashed already at the top of our list of recommended values. It is an important addition to the body of work describes the historical roots of so much of the pain that we see and feel in Black communities today. Touching on almost every area of life, Black – from our physical and mental health, the health of our interpersonal, family, community and relationships, and more – Burrell shows how each has been undermined by the myth of black inferiority. On the way, he shares insights that help us, help us themselves. Brainwashed shows how the myth of black inferiority was skillfully marketed through American history and proposes a bold and creative marketing campaign to help change the reverse of how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. What makes this book so important, in my view, is to replace Burrell focus on actions by its Resolution Project, use the media to the toxic messages that are part of the myth with a new, positive images of black people are. Tom Burrell has made a vital contribution to the administration an excellent resource for traffic-building – and with his involvement as an expert in marketing, use marketing to change the image of black people.
Rating: 5.5
Once I began to read by Tom Burrell Brainwashed it was difficult to put down. His explanation of how the targeted destruction of slave families, 150 + years in a self-perpetuating cycle that, if left unchecked has developed, continued enslavement assured for the coming years, is powerful. Burrell convincingly refuted arguments that the Black family has been restored during the renovation and that its disintegration is to say of recent origin. Brainwashed invites the reader to check on your debt, let your defenses in the door, and let us consider that we take all the decisions, both frees and free each other. As a professor of multicultural counseling at a university in the Midwest, I added the book on my recommended reading list, before I was halfway through reading. I have also ordered a copy for the library school. This is a must for those who read, long for a truly “post-racial” America.
Rating: 5.5
I looked forward to reading this book, to speak after hearing the author of the book on my local radio station. I was particularly interested in its solutions, as any intelligent African American knows the source of our dysfunction, our ancestors under slavery. Where can I find a problem, is the author of many solutions to the problems he describes in his book. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but where were the marketing of “tricks” that many marketing companies to convince the public of their employ propaganda in favor? Where were the basic principles of “influence” For us to change our habits? Where were the multiple layers of type strategies to use the power to convince the masses to do their will?
Finally, I find many times older Americans to leave the youth leaders in their quest to change our habits . Many of our most inspiring leaders were young when they started their movement – King was in his twenty’s when many of his demonstrations. Malcolm X was in his twenty’s, during his most productive time. More young people need to be cared for in the ways of persuasion and influence. These youth can be the banners of the African American issues and go in the future.
Rating: 5.3
A thoroughly engaging and provocative read, Brainwashed is the concept of black inferiority, smashed a concept, says the author Tom Burrell, which is held almost anywhere in America today. Burrell, a former ad man prefers to show from history how the institution of slavery, a top-down necessary to state-sponsored de-humanization media campaign to legitimize itself: slavery is not wrong if not are enslaved fully human. Such a country was convinced of a lie. But what really sets apart Brainwashed Burrell’s skill full account of how the brain, using a modern and ubiquitous media, plants learned over generations behaviors are directly attributable to slavery and were reinforced undeterred by the media. Burrell concludes with “Yes We Must,” the reader with the technology-based Web offers second 0 media solutions to finally make the brain reverse. Totally engrossing, and with much eye-lift is Brainwashed to read a must for Americans of all skin colors.
Rating: 5.5