The book Race Matters by Cornel West has many different views on African Americans, from Nihilism to affirmative action and black sexuality as a taboo subject. Nihilism is the belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility and this is the first topic West tackles. West believes that blacks on the bottom of the social ladder divide …showed first 75 words of 690 total…

…showed last 75 words of 690 total…fact that it doesn’t serve as a solution to poverty, but it still helps people obtain and keep jobs and also to bring discrimination down in the work place. I also agree with his opinion on sexuality. He raises the question “How can something that was considered disgusting and ugly be ok in this day and age?” But I do feel that we should not be afraid of each other’s humanity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**