The Truth in Black and White

The Truth in Black and White, my tenth title, presents my experiences living as the lone white man in government subsidized housing with 139 African American men and women in a rundown urban neighborhood. I have always felt that integration is as much a white responsibility as a black one. When I moved here three years ago, I had in mind a Studs Terkel oral history about the lives of Black women. To get started, I asked my new neighbors what their lives have been like. As I recorded their case histories and testimonials and spoke with white friends and colleagues, I realized how little most Americans know about the true history of racism, slavery, and civil rights. In my completed manuscript, the experiences and comments of my Afro-American friends and neighbors accent and support my true, adumbrated history. Near the book's end, my black friends and I recommend practical cures for the deadly disease of racism - conditional cash transfers for the poor, conditional tuition-free college education for qualified minority students, and national truth and reconciliation conferences. After visiting this country in 1832, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "America will be great as long as it is good. When America ceases to be good, it will cease to be great." When the Constitutional Convention of 1789 was adjourned, a woman is reported to have inquired of Benjamin Franklin as he came out of the hall, "Sir, what kind of government did you give us?" He replied, "A republic, Ma'am ... for as long as you can keep it." I believe you agree that we can keep it if we stop denying the truth and choose instead to find and expose it. I see this book's search for truth as a means to that end. My friend and neighbor, Mr. Fox, put it this way: "It's about time that white folks hear what a fellow white man has to say about his own real life experience about racism and race relations. This is what you folks need to know to help America finally live up to its promises and slogans."
About the Author: JC Anderson is a published writer, a business development consultant, and an award-winning corporate communications manager. He is the author of ten titles and of more than 100 journal articles. The Truth in Black and White is his latest project. His latest novel, "Finding Phoebe: How One Woman Changed the Course of Evolution," was published in 2016. Mr. Anderson is the founder of Amazing Adventures, Inc., a developer of role-playing, streaming video training software, and Test Central, Inc. (www.test.com). He owns the patents for administering assessments on the Internet. He is the managing director of Concepts & Messages, Inc. (www.conceptsandmessages.com), a developer of marketing communications tools for corporations and nonprofit enterprises. His experience includes senior management of software development, sales and marketing, advertising, skills training, public relations, and marketing communications. He is the author of two histories, "Girty: the Legend" and "Free Love: Cultivating the Garden of Eden in America", the four novels in the "Holly Goforth" coming of age series, "The Stalking", "The Revenge", "The Revival", and "The Breakdown" as well as a satirical memoir about his career in newspapers, magazines, advertising, public relations, and e-commerce, "The Wages of Gin." He is also the author of "The Threat to Our Potable Water Supply," which he wrote in collaboration with a corporate client