Facing Reality

Two Truths About Race in America

By: Charles Murray

Narrated by: Robert Rivington

The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities.

What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.

We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction.

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Toe in the water

I’m glad to see someone allowed to write a book full of such uncomfortable truths. The author dipped his toe in the water, but when it was time to jump all the way in, he fell short. Still a great read and reason to open your eyes to the truth.

Great modern day analysis

This book captured a lot of undiscussed parallels that are associated with race, affirmative action, and education. Charles does a succinct job in drawing the lines and causal effects of various ethnic groups and their outcomes when it comes to crime and education.

Outstanding

He tells it like it is. If only everyone else could read this today or sooner.

Apparently, Murray is a Glutton for Punishment

Charles Murray is one of the few people willing to say the things that are in this book. I would hope that we would be appreciative of his bravery; but I suspect we will be too eager to dogpile him to give his careful handling of a touchy subject the attention it deserves.

mandatory

thorough, depressing, truth, we need to start thinking rationally and unemotionally about these issues or the American experiment will end

Truths that need to be heard

I wish all of our world leaders could read this with an open mind but the power they hold because of their narrow beliefs is too much to relinquish.

Strategic/Tactical Decisions Re: America’s Future

This book was very well researched and Murray deserves praise for that fact. On his point regarding the cognitive differences between races, he did that without making any link to those differences being a function of cultural behavioral differences (i.e. Asians have the highest IQs, but Asians also spend much more time on homework). Because of that omission, this book will be much less impactful than it otherwise might have been. That is a shame.

A book about facts, not feelings.

"Facts are stubborn", it's an old British expression that we have abandoned and forgotten since the Great War. Facts not only are stubborn, but despite how you chose to label them, they are always verifiable. This little book, is all about facts, presented bare, raw and without a hint of ideology in them.

In my humble opinion, failing to look at the data presented and plan ahead with the human resources the US has at hand, will just end the American experiment very fast. The pathologies and the division are already visible and there are no political solutions to the problems facing the country. The only thing the media and the political spectrum can offer is more strife and more disunity.

Well Researched Book

Excellent book. Very well researched. a bit dry in some parts, but definitely worth reading.

To The Point

I’ve been looking for an objective book that focuses on statistics and facts for a long time. I found it in Facing Reality.