This was the book that made me want to read about issues. Hamblin talks about his upbringing and how he was taught not to settle for poverty or make it an excuse for failure. Pride comes from being self-supporting. He also spends a lot of the book addressing the inner city residents and how they look down on blacks who succeed. They claim the American Dream is really the white man's dream, and any black who aspires to it is turning white. The poverty pimps (as he calls them) who are "These black urban politicians devote their entire political careers to delivering nothing but government welfare to their stagnant communities of isolated constituents."

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