Uncle Sam’s Plantation - How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can Do about It
Star Parker, founder of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Eduction ( CURE ), has written 3 books. Uncle Sam’s Plantation, published in 2003, is her second book. ISBN:0785262199
Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. [ Wikipedia article about Star Parker ]
Back Cover Synopsis:
“America has two economic systems: capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor. This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to poverty while the rich get richer. In Uncle Sam’s Plantation, Star Parker offers simple yet profound steps that will allow the nation’s poor to go from entitlement and slavery to empowerment and freedom. Parker shares her own amazing journey up from the lower rungs of the economic system and addresses the importance of extending the free market system to this neglected group of people.”
Gary from Kansas City says: “This lady is bold and very aware of what is going on in America, especially in the black community. She is saying what everyone’s thinking but afraid to say.”
Jason Sheck says: “Growing up a ‘privileged white male’ allowed for me to become complacent and uninformed of America’s most significant social ills. Star Parker’s book has totally showed me the reality that people are facing everyday in this country.”
Tucker Anderson says:
Star Parker doesn’t hesitate to speak truth to power, since she has the credentials to do so. She has lived the self destructive and joyless life so prevalent in the welfare community and she has overcome incredible obstacles (often self imposed). Thus, while anyone can fairly disagree with her often controversial conclusions and recommendations, she clearly has the moral legitimacy to present them. These are insights invariably gained from personal experience and sharpened by an inquiring mind.
… the book describes the devastating effects of government dependency not from an academic perspective but rather through the eyes of someone who has escaped from the addiction which entraps so many individuals. The book is almost conversational in tone, yet provides many powerful philosophical insights and much well reasoned discussion. At times, some of the imagery created by the author’s prose almost becomes poetic. While I was familiar with both the author’s background and much of her philosophy, I still found the book both enjoyable and thought provoking.
… a once free people are inexorably drawn into the bondage of the nanny state and the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. Star Parker, a black woman who was once a slave to the cycle of welfare and abortion, calls it Uncle Sam’s Plantation, which is an apt description of the powerful force government’s endorsement of vice and misery has on regular people, and particularly the disadvantaged.
The book is also referenced in the International Journal of Public Administration, Volume 30, Number 1, January 2007, pp. 77-93
Abstract:
“African-American and Latino under-representation in the Information Technology (IT) industry appears to be perpetuated throughout institutions in society. An examination of the institutional and ideological social forces which arguably perpetuate the exclusion of African Americans and Latinos from greater representation in the IT field will be provided.”
Monado, FCD said,
April 30, 2008 at 9:05 am
My covivant, LotStreetWiz, who has been reading the Globe and Mail since he was thirteen and The Economist as long as I can remember, plus the Wall Street Journal off and on, has told me that more is extracted from the poor in the U.S. than they receive in benefits and the net cash flow is actually from the poor to the middle class & rich. One of the mechanisms is tax-deductible mortgage interest.