Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority

Tom Burrell

Sep 2009 · Hay House, Inc

About this ebook

“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.

They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of “no way!” At this point in history, the idea of black inferiority should have had a “Going-Out-of-Business Sale.” After all, Barack Obama has reached the Promised Land.

Yet, as Brainwashed: Erasing the Myth of Black Inferiority testifies, too much of black America is still wandering in the wilderness. In this powerful examination of “the greatest propaganda campaign of all time”—the masterful marketing of black inferiority Burrell poses 10 provocative questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think like slaves.

Brainwashed is not a reprimand; it is a call to deprogram ourselves of self-defeating attitudes and actions. Racism is not the issue; how we respond to racism is the issue. We must undo negative brainwashing and claim a new state of race-based self-esteem and self-actualization. Provocative and powerful, Brainwashed dares to expose the wounds so that we, at last, can heal.

Ratings and reviews

Reverse psychology, a good read none the less, engage, but be enlightened,make note of this! There are bias, categoristic, elliment's in this book, can further segregate the future relationship, of all humanity regardless of skin colors or heritages. Just because a mans skin color or nationality,ethnic groups, placed into a certain class of or type, is ludicrous, you cannot catigorize some one because of their heritage, skin color, ancestry. (Well you can, but you'd most likely be wrong), note, that some are embarrass of the tyrannical motives that existed in their families heritages of all colors, a good read none the less, but, to be on alert, indeed. Not to allow further segregation. Global dominant caricatistic's reside in all skin color, heritages. Don't be ("brainwashed") a puppet to Globalist, Authoritarion powers of today, they're very clever, reside in all ethnic groups, this is key mindset here! God Bless all

I read Brainwashed this summer! I love the treatment insofar as the application of the marketing strategies that the US Government employ/employed towards the demise of the black race in America. This book is an interesting page turner, Mr. Burrell addresses things I had not come across before in my reading of African-American literature concerning slavery, oppression and the traditional, historical movement in America to keep blacks barricaded in inferiority even beyond America's boarders. I especially marveled at the notion of the "bad black man" and its link to Hip Hop culture and black male badness. In addition, the idea that the violent behavior which is imaged in such a way as to convince the public that only black men are involved in such malevolent behavior is directly linked to European, white culture and is not a part of any historical African culture. I would say Mr. Burrell h as perfect timing especially regarding the way in which a black president is being treated by the white media. They are once again employing the same strategies to hem in yet another black man.

Unoriginal. If you take everything Malcolm X says and place Tom Burrell's spin to it with his anonymous quotes you get "Brainwashed." Just go read the Autobiography of Malcolm X or Malcom X speaks and save yourself the time of thinking this guy is an in depth thinker. (Maybe I'm just ticked he barely mentions Malcolm X after building a whole book off his ideas)....

About the author

Marketing communications pioneer and Advertising Hall of Fame inductee Tom Burrell is credited with revolutionizing the image of African Americans in television and changing the face of American advertising. His award-winning work promoted positive and realistic images of blacks and acknowledged the purchasing power of the African American community. Burrell is the founder of The Resolution Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes intra-racial dialogue and community-based new media "stop the brainwash" campaigns. He lives in Chicago’s South Loop area.