What People Are Saying
“A Good Read”
-Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
“Others have attempted to write about our nation’s addiction to racism, but this book sets the standard. Deacon Ken Radcliffe is ahead of his time!”
-Sandy Bernabei, LCSW, Liberation Psychotherapist
“Deacon Kenneth Radcliffe provides a timely and essential analysis of the disease of racism and the path for recovery. At a time when racism is a public health crisis, this book is a vital tool for healing.”
-Barbara C. Wallace, PhD., Teachers College, Columbia University
REVIEWS
What Our People are Saying
A pot of coffee is about all the time this one will take to read, but in such a short time caucasian and non will be a bit floored at just how accurate Radcliffe’s appraisal and juxtaposition of alcoholism and racism. I would recommend this book and sought it out myself for the racism I constantly encounter in self-help groups who claim to use the principles in all their affairs. On many occasions I’ve been directly asked by white men and women why, so few black people come and stay within mostly white self-help groups. This may answer a few of those questions while also starting a new conversation about what a truly destructive disorder looks like when never addressed. I expect those that read and have the disorder to respond as the they deem appropriate.
Valtron 4.0 out of 5 stars An eye opening read Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2014 Verified Purchase
This book addresses a very challenging construct: the shared delusion of race. The thesis is strong and historical information relevant. Every American mental health and public health professional could benefit from reading and applying its perspective when appropriate.
Robert E. Penn 3.0 out of 5 stars Useful approach Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2016 Verified Purchase
New book proposes 12-step program, Plausible and pragmatic, Kenneth L. Radcliffe’s ‘Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism’ demonstrates how racism is an illness that can be treated–it will be featured at the 2013 New York State Reading Association
NEW YORK (PRWEB) OCTOBER 26, 2013 Using Christian and humanist principles and a 12-step program designed for societal illness, a new book seeks to solve the problem of racism. A Permanent Deacon for the Archdiocese of New York, Kenneth L. Radcliffe, attempts to look into the issue of racism and offers a plausible solution to treat, the problem in his book, “Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism.”
Deacon Radcliffe’s book is designed with a threefold purpose. First, it will seek to demonstrate that racism is a disease, a mental illness. Its symptoms are similar to those of the disease of alcoholism. Second, it shows how racism, like alcoholism, has not been proven curable at this point in time. However, like alcoholism, it is treatable. Its symptoms can be arrested.
Racial discrimination is an evil that exists in many parts of the world. An important part of the book on the origin and role of the Black Church’s resistance to racism that is discussed, serves to showcase a long-standing and infamous historical instance of racism’s development and the fight against it. Racism on the North American continent, though, serves as a relevant model on which the 12-step program can be applied. In the right hands, this book will become an insightful strategic tool to help experts and professionals, even ordinary individuals, deal with this cruel disease. “Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism” is a must read for those who advocate equal rights, justice and fair treatment. Kenneth L. Radcliffe’s powerful new book “Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism” was featured at the 2013 New York State Reading Association Book Exhibit in Albany, New York, on October 27