Skin is Their Sin explores the growing phenomenon of white bashing in America, where whites are often blamed for the country’s societal ills. The book challenges stereotypes, questioning whether whites, often depicted as racist and discriminatory, are truly to blame for America’s problems. It suggests that while whites created the system that shaped America, a shift in power to minorities from countries like Mexico and India could lead to further dysfunction. The narrative urges a more balanced perspective on race and identity in America, calling for an end to unfair blame.
Book Overview
Fareed Zakaria of CNN recently asked in a TV documentary, What’s tearing us i.e. Americans apart? In other words, why do Americans hate one another? But Americans are no haters. In 2009, a small black kid asked Barack “Hussein” Obama at a town hall meeting why people hated him so much. This was at the height of the Tea Party movement. Obama replied that many people liked him because that’s why they had voted for him.
Kamala “Devi” Harris is another case in point. Her foreign origins—both religious as well as nationality—are clear in her name. Yet, she had made it to the vice-presidency with a clear run to the Oval Office. If America was such a hateful country, would Obama and Harris have made it to the top? Yet we are awash in Asian hate, Muslim hate, black hate, Jewish hate. Every day the woke media makes us believe that we are a nation of haters. But we are not.
How has our vision become so clouded that we hate to see the goodness in America? Right after 9/11, the author, Sunil Sharan, found himself at a Pizza Hut at DC’s airport. The store was owned by a Bangladeshi immigrant. Sharan asked him, out of concern, if he was ok. He said that, yes, he was. He said that in our countries, meaning countries of South Asia, if an event like 9/11 had occurred, reprisals would have left tens of thousands dead. Sharan knew that he was right.
Sharan is not trying to romanticize America and make Americans love one another. God alone knows that there is too much of America is Great floating around. Yet, the author counsels Americans: in your desire to be perfect, don’t tear it all down. It’s not as bad as it seems. In fact, it’s pretty darn good.
Why Read Skin is Their Sin?
- Why come to America? – If America is so racist, then why does it attract so many people of color from around the world? “The book is a worthy addition to the studies of scholars such as Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele.”
- Equal blame – Are whites to blame for all the racism pervading America or do other ethnicities carry equal blame? Skin is Their Sin examines.
- Who was the brain behind building America? – Unequivocally it was white people. So why blame them for all the ills infecting America.
- “A special book.” – “This is not a book for the woke. But it won’t let the reader sleep either. To read this work is to engage in intellectual combat.”