cover image White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay

White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay

Star Parker. Nelson Current, $24.99 (238pp) ISBN 978-1-59555-027-9

Touching on Sex and the City, Snoop Dogg, the National Organization for Women, stem-cell research and ""the It's-Natural-To-Be-Gay movement,"" born-again Parker decries the ""radicalized progressive liberalism that has pervaded Middle America and usurped the authority of our founding fathers"" in her indictment of all things not hard-line Christian that posits the suburbs are just as rife with immorality as the inner-city. Parker discusses ""sexual pandemonium,"" the dissolution of the traditional family and the concepts of the insanity plea and hate crime (not the existence of the crimes, but the existence of the concept) in an effort to discover ""why so many obvious areas of moral breakdown exist throughout the country."" No matter what the perceived malady, the cure is simple: the moral alignment of all with Judeo Christian values. Parker may mean well, but her shallow critique will turn off anyone not already in her camp.