''False Black Power ?'' is a 2017 book by conservative journalist

Jason L. Riley Jason L. Riley (born July 8, 1971) is an American conservative commentator and author. He is a member of ''The Wall Street Journal''s editorial board. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and has appeared on the ''Journal Editoria ...

. In the book, Riley asserts that despite

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

gains in political power overtime, culminating in the first black president,

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did not produce tangible socioeconomic improvement for African Americans. Moreover, Riley argues that the opposite happened and as a group, African Americans progressed at a slower rate than whites.

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