Book Critique of Borelli’s Blacklash
In the novel that I, Jordan Glascock read, Blacklash: How Obama and the Left are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation, author Deneen Borelli believes President Barack Obama and his elites propose useless government policies that only set the country more in debt. Deneen Borelli is an African American woman who shares views with republican conservatives. Deneen is a political figure who worked hard to get where she is today and is a well known conservative activist. After high school, she maintained a full time job at Phillip Morris as a benefits clerk and attended school at night. Borelli achieved her goal in eleven years with her B.A. in managerial marketing (About Deneen par.7). After working…show more content… Instead she volunteered a year of her life to the Congress of Racial Equality where she produced a talk show known as The CORE Hour (Borelli pg.11). It was then Borelli says she realized that what she grew up learning was wrong. She learned at CORE that discrimination was not holding the black people back; black people were holding each other back because they were not making their own life decisions properly. Borelli wants to make a difference in the government so she started pursuing her political career. She is a member of Project 21 which is a group of black conservatives and she worked with them for a while until she before she began working for FreedomWorks (Project 21 par.1) She has spoken at Tea Party rallies, premiered on television such as the O’Reilley Factor, American’s Newsroom, and Fox (About Deneen par.1). Deneen has written many commentaries on freedom and our limited government that has been published to the public (Project 21 par.3). Other than the commentaries, Blacklash is Borelli’s only book that she has composed, but the book is very factual and detailed on many programs that she disagrees with. The information given in this book is very educational and helps a reader fully
