''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 known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

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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