Book Review: The Race Card — How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard Thompson Ford - Page 6

Richard Thompson Ford shows, in his tight and controlled prose, that the best way to approach a subject — especially one dealing with an inflammatory social or political point, is to confront it directly, examine it with the impassive scalpel of a medical examiner's intellect, and just matter of factly report on the discoveries, allowing any further analyses to be done by others. Compared to the plethora of well-meaning but babbling sociological tracts and screeds I've read, The Race Card is an utter gem, and should be read eagerly and intensively by folks of all political hues across the spectrum. Now, for your own benefit, get to it!

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