Review by professor2024 -- Mixed Blessings by J.M. Muse
Posted: 21 Mar 2020, 01:31
[Following is a volunteer review of "Mixed Blessings" by J.M. Muse.]
This was the third-decade pastor Michael Kublai Khan participated with the Office of Management and Budget Census Working Group to bring more importance, bearing and power to neglected communities like Southwest Detroit. The working group’s work was worth billions and being black or brown was not in keeping with how he believed the powers that be wanted things to stay. In America, race is the key factor in politics, education, and quality of life and Black people, being minorities, cannot readily access the opportunities but have to aggressively agitate for increased federal appropriations flow so that they get more. However, begging for more is just not going to make it happen this time. A path to liberation occurs when a conscious voluntary action is driven by incomplete reasoning and he needed a plan of skillful means to turn the tables on the oppressor - the United States Government.
The idea was the creation of a new category of racial differences that would trump the idea of whiteness. In one generation, a mixed-race with Black male seeds could be made through marriages with the cooperative efforts of a diversity working group -a coalition of professionals, politicians, and representatives of key global evangelical churches. The race plot’s scheme is brought into play and executed to detail. However, an eccentric Reverend -Tucker Dalton, together with his white supremacist following from the Christian Covenant Church in Chino, California, have alternative plans which would turn the plot's grand scheme of things into an evangelical revolt, race riot rampage and a subject of national discussion by the media, the administrators of the US Census and Washington DC.
The book is a suspenseful page-turner, full of action and captivating. These, in addition to the writer’s skill in story-telling, make for an engrossing read. For instance, to nuance, the diversity working group’s race transformation scheme, the writer chronicles the life of Kimberly Solberg, a mocha girl or person of mixed race whose life takes a dramatic turn after getting married to a Black man and bears mixed-race children. According to the diversity working group’s theory, the most fertile females are of mixed race (mocha girls) while white women are less fertile. The writer also chronicles the life of Hoshiko “Star” Mathews, an art director at Gibbons and Italia, an advertising agency hired by the diversity working group for its Mocha Girls strategic premise scheme implementation. Born of a Japanese mother and Black father, Star is of mixed race and struggles with multi-racial relationships, love and fitting in, in either culture.
Mixed Blessings: Is Race Real, is a riveting fictional third-person narration novel by J.M. Muse. The narrator is a reliable source of information with a flair for the descriptive. Periods are rarely mentioned; however, the story spans locations from Detroit to Southern California to Mexico and South Korea. The characters influence the setting and plot immensely. The theme is nationwide evangelical discourse and revolt on race transformation, freedom, political power and the safety of the country’s mixed-race population.
Whereas the story has a logical flow and makes an enthralling read, there is little or no respite from racial slurs, profanity, erotic scenes and macabre series of murders. Though these cannot prevent one from enjoying the book, some racial slurs may not augur well with some audience e.g. “There isn’t enough power in those monkey brains of you (black) people to change our (white) way of life!” ‘’When you (black) people were still in caves and had tails, White people were navigating the oceans and establishing civilizations.’’
Nonetheless, the book is professionally edited with no errors. I would recommend the book to lovers of books and discourse on civil rights movements, human rights activism, Christian ministerial works, and political activism. I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars.
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Mixed Blessings
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This was the third-decade pastor Michael Kublai Khan participated with the Office of Management and Budget Census Working Group to bring more importance, bearing and power to neglected communities like Southwest Detroit. The working group’s work was worth billions and being black or brown was not in keeping with how he believed the powers that be wanted things to stay. In America, race is the key factor in politics, education, and quality of life and Black people, being minorities, cannot readily access the opportunities but have to aggressively agitate for increased federal appropriations flow so that they get more. However, begging for more is just not going to make it happen this time. A path to liberation occurs when a conscious voluntary action is driven by incomplete reasoning and he needed a plan of skillful means to turn the tables on the oppressor - the United States Government.
The idea was the creation of a new category of racial differences that would trump the idea of whiteness. In one generation, a mixed-race with Black male seeds could be made through marriages with the cooperative efforts of a diversity working group -a coalition of professionals, politicians, and representatives of key global evangelical churches. The race plot’s scheme is brought into play and executed to detail. However, an eccentric Reverend -Tucker Dalton, together with his white supremacist following from the Christian Covenant Church in Chino, California, have alternative plans which would turn the plot's grand scheme of things into an evangelical revolt, race riot rampage and a subject of national discussion by the media, the administrators of the US Census and Washington DC.
The book is a suspenseful page-turner, full of action and captivating. These, in addition to the writer’s skill in story-telling, make for an engrossing read. For instance, to nuance, the diversity working group’s race transformation scheme, the writer chronicles the life of Kimberly Solberg, a mocha girl or person of mixed race whose life takes a dramatic turn after getting married to a Black man and bears mixed-race children. According to the diversity working group’s theory, the most fertile females are of mixed race (mocha girls) while white women are less fertile. The writer also chronicles the life of Hoshiko “Star” Mathews, an art director at Gibbons and Italia, an advertising agency hired by the diversity working group for its Mocha Girls strategic premise scheme implementation. Born of a Japanese mother and Black father, Star is of mixed race and struggles with multi-racial relationships, love and fitting in, in either culture.
Mixed Blessings: Is Race Real, is a riveting fictional third-person narration novel by J.M. Muse. The narrator is a reliable source of information with a flair for the descriptive. Periods are rarely mentioned; however, the story spans locations from Detroit to Southern California to Mexico and South Korea. The characters influence the setting and plot immensely. The theme is nationwide evangelical discourse and revolt on race transformation, freedom, political power and the safety of the country’s mixed-race population.
Whereas the story has a logical flow and makes an enthralling read, there is little or no respite from racial slurs, profanity, erotic scenes and macabre series of murders. Though these cannot prevent one from enjoying the book, some racial slurs may not augur well with some audience e.g. “There isn’t enough power in those monkey brains of you (black) people to change our (white) way of life!” ‘’When you (black) people were still in caves and had tails, White people were navigating the oceans and establishing civilizations.’’
Nonetheless, the book is professionally edited with no errors. I would recommend the book to lovers of books and discourse on civil rights movements, human rights activism, Christian ministerial works, and political activism. I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars.
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Mixed Blessings
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon