Exploring the Roots of Black Inferiority

     Tom Burrell's book, Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, is an insightful and eye-opening book that explores the reasons why African-Americans are considered less than and not equals to other races and why African-Americans can not come together as a whole.  His research goes back to the time of slavery as the cause of this myth of black inferiority and root of the problems that are plaguing the black community today.  In this book not only does Burrell challenge this myth, he lists solutions to end this way of thinking and to help the black community come together.
      This book tackles many issues that are current today such as black-on-black homicide, black hypersexualization, the broken structure of the black family, and much more.  While exposing the root of these problems Burrell forces the reader to not only see the ugly truth of why the African-American population is broken, but confront it as well.
     Being in the field of Communications and Journalism, this book helped me to learn how I can become part of the solution by using media to help promote positive and healthy images that would help heal the wounds that African-Americans still harbor from slavery.  It has opened my eyes as to what needs to stop happening and what needs to start happening, and how I can help fix what is broken in the black community.

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