Husbands death in american wife. And wrapping up this weeks list, chair of military theory at the marine corps university, intas man gorka, looks at radical us lammic terrorism and his assessment on how to fight it. Thats a look at the current bestseller ors according to the conservative book club. Many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Crystal wright, your new book, con job. Whos being conned and whos doing the conning . Guest well, i think democrats are doing the conning particularly of black americans and women. I argue in my book because theyre kind of like the Democrat Party, in my view, over the last half century is kind of like a used car salesman. It peddles all these promises and pledges to black americans, were going to make things better since lbj, were going to make you martyr, richer, more smarter, richer, more educated. Fast forward, black americans are none of those things. I talk about in con job how the head of the Congressional Black Caucus last year said that blacks were, in quote, a state of emergency under the first black president , mind you. So its i look at the Democrat Party kind of like a used car salesman in that they say, hey, theyre really slickly dressed, and they want to sell you a great product. They say dont look under the hood, because you might not actually get what youre voting for. And with women, you know, its always the war on women, right . The abortion lobby is very strong in the Democrat Party, and they paint it under this veil of prochoice, but when i did some digging on planned parenthoods web site and in their financial e reports, what i found is by the age a woman turns 45 in america, 3 out of every 10 women will have had an abortion. And i dont know if that and they boast about it on their web site as something we should champion. And as a woman, i find that its nothing i, you know, women that i know who have made the tough decision to have an abortion, i dont agree with abortion, thats not something that we should be proud of. But thats a statistic that they boast about. Those are just some of the highlights of the book. When it comes to illegal immigration, you know, often times what i found in doing research for this week if you go on the dncs web site, they have a list of 50 different constituents. You know what my mother always used to tell me . A person who tries to be master of many things or to many people usually are master of none of those things. A lot of times theyll advocate the Democrat Party for one constituent that cannibalizes another, and theres no better example than illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is enemy number one of black americans. What happens when immigration increases by about 10 , illegal immigration . Jobs decline for blacks to the tune of almost 6 and wages by about 2. 5 . You have Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders particularly Hillary Clinton saying shes going to go further than barack obama did and use executive order if she has to to allow the 11 Million People to stay here permanently. That harms black americans. So my book really, i wrote this book and the timing is perfect, 2016. My book came out a little over a month ago, to wake everybody up to say, look, you dont have to be a conservative like me, but know what youre voting for. Has the Democrat Party really delivered on promises to blacks, to women and really liberals, you know, in general is what the book is about. So thats probably more than you wanted to hear, peter, but [laughter] host 96 of africanamericans voted for barack obama. Over time 90 of africanamericans vote for the democratic candidate. Guest yes. And i think that is a tragedy because the lock, stock and barrel vote that blacks have given democrats over the last half century has not gotten us, i dont think, the parity with white americans that Martin Luther king wanted for us to have. And i think in many ways it has kept us i hate to use analogies about slavery in all those, but i feel like it has kept us impoverished as a race. And when you look at little in 1964 Daniel Patrick moynihan, i i talk about this in the book, he said that he was disturbed by the fact that 23 of black babies were born out of wedlock, and he warned president johnson in his moynihan report which is called the negro family a case for National Action he told president johnson if we dont do something about this, youre going to see generational poverty and crime developing within the black race because at the same time that moynihan found the broken family emerging among black americans, he also saw an increased dependence of black women in singlefamily homes, you know x they were the head of the homes, a dependency on welfare. Forward to today. 72 of black babe is 72 of black babies are born out of wedlock, and you can go to Brookings Institute or heritage, and all the data is the same on the left or the right. A child that is born into a singleparent household has about a 70 chance of growing up in poverty and not getting an education. So i really want black americans to think this is an important election. Who is really talking to you about what policies theyre actually going to implement to get you jobs . Not making promises like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on records. You know, both of them have been in office a long time. Theyre promising all these things, you know, were going to stop mass incarceration of blacks, were going to bring black jobs, were going to reform the prison system, all these things, but they havent done any of that stuff over the last, you know, 30 years that hillarys been running for president really, shes had every job under the sun. Theyre pandering, what i say is that theyre saying that black lives matter, but for them its really all about black votes. Because what have either of them done in their records to help improve the state of black america . Thats what i and i think you have donald trump on the other side. While he is making some statements that i think he needs to clarify about white supremacists, the klan and david duke, at the same time, he is actually uttering words black americans. He talks about how hes going to ease black unemployment in his immigration plan by getting rid of j1 visas which allow foreign, Young Workers to come over here. And you know what he wants to replace it with . All on his web site. I wish hed talk about it more, he wants to replace it with an inner city jobs bank where businesses, corporations, you name it, actually have are going to be forced to go to a jobs bank. I think its innovative, its more jack kemp style, right . Enterprise zones. And i want to hear donald trump talk about that and really repudiate white supremacist which he kind of did today on today show. He actually said for the first time he does not want their vote, so i was glad to hear that. You cant talk out of both sides of your mouth. Host crystal wright, we hear from our callin programs on cspan and booktv black conservative, i just dont get it. Guest yeah. They dont get it, they dont trust me, they think i i get called uncle tom, coon, you know, like, youre working for the man. Well, i dont get paid for virtually none of my activism is paid. I mean, i got paid to write this book, but its a modest, you know, sum of money. And i think the reason why though is because we do see, i would say, my party use a lot of black conservatives to their advantage, and they use them as puppets. I think at a certain point there were times when ben carson when he was appearing on a certain conservative network before he ran for president was saying things that werent authentic to dr. Carson. I heard when he poke at the president s spoke at the president s prayer breakfast. I think black americans have a right to distrust some black conservatives because the ones that you see sometimes propped up through conservative Media Outlets somehow lose their identity, and they are not theyre no longer authentic in their voice. I would say to black americans, however, there are many conservatives like me who i tell it like it is, im able to be introspective about my own party when my party says stupid things like donald trump has said stupid things, like Haley Barbour who said he didnt remember the Civil Rights Movement being all that bad and session regated when he grew up in the segregated south in mississippi. So i tell it like it is, but i also look, i dont paint all liberals alike, i know, it sounds like it since my book, con job, is a critique on the democratic party, but i think for black americans what i would say is we do the homework. Theres a rich history with the party of lincoln, and i emphasize the party of lincoln, because that was a good party then. With black americans, lincoln and his Republican Party was created because they fundamentally wanted to break away from the whigs who wanted to expand slave states out west. Lincoln wants parity like Martin Luther king for black americans. The Republican Party fought for the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment. So theres a history there. Theres a reason why black americans like me believe fundamentally the policy conservatives offer empower them more than democrats. So i would just, you know, i think some of that is going away because you do see after president Barack Obamas nearly two terms, black americans are really frustrated. Travels Smiley Tavis Smiley and others are saying, gosh, i dont know if hes delivered on the the promise that he made, and did we deserve to give him over 90 of our vote. So this is a good thing. I just think everybody should have their eyes wide open. Im a republican, but that doesnt mean just because you have an r next to your name youre always going to earn my vote. Im just saying that black america in order to have any political power in this country, we have got to diversify our political thought process. Weve got to do it. No other race and im going to repeat this no other race gives nearly their entire vote to one party but black americans. And then we complain when democrats dont deliver on promises. So i just think thats got to stop. Thats the only way youre going to have real political power, and youre going to lift yourselves out of poverty. Youve got to stop asking what a party can do for you and what you can do for yourself. Then the party can kind of help you along, i think. Host is the Republican Party comfortable with you . Guest no. I dont i think the Republican Party has a great uneasiness with me because they cant put me into a box. Im not, im not going to use names about my peers that i like, but im not necessarily predictable. And i, frankly, dont think that any party should have patsies that are its supporters. And thats what were dealing with right now fundamentally. The party wants to be controlled by the gop establishment which is, frankly, a bunch its an exclusive club. Ive taken great offense to them trying to rig an election that donald trump is winning, i mean, not election, a nomination process that donald trump is winning fairly and squarely. And what this really is about is the establishment in washington very concerned and disturbed they have lost political power, influence and money. And its made up largely of white males, and the very people like mitt romney today who gave a speech and i couldnt hear it all he gave a speech condemning donald trump who, by the way, in 2012 he praised for supporting his campaign, i find it really repugnant because romney ran one of the most whitest campaigns that i can remember. I wanted to help his campaign, volunteer. I was shut out at every turn. I was a gingrich delegate. I went on National Television when my guy was not winning anything beyond south carolina, and i got behind our nominee, mitt romney. Mitt romney did nothing to grow the party. The party stayed very white under mitt romney. And what happened . Mitt romney lost the black, asian, hispanic and woman vote. Mitt romney is a failure, the establishment has been a failure to grow this party. Donald trump is doing these things, and thats why theyre mad. Their power my party deserves to be burped down and built burned down and built anew. Host in con job two people who appear in your book, allen west and cornell west. Whats the difference between cornel west and allen west . Guest well, allen west actually endorsed my book. He was a member of congress in florida. Hes a great friend of mine, ive learned a lot from allen west, you know, just was very friendly with him when he was a congressman, and cornel west is a professor at princeton. I think cornel west has come out to support Bernie Sanders. Cornel west, i mention, i think, throughout the book because cornel west, in my opinion, is part of the race hustle movement. And i put him in i lump him in a category with al sharpton because cornel west is always trotted out by the Mainstream Media when we need, quote, black spokespeople. And, you know, when i was growing up, my parents never gave me a memo that i had to have black people speak on my behalf, because my parents grew up during the segregated south, and they were called the nword, my parents had to sit in the back of the bus in richmond, virginia. So they always taught me to peek for myself as a to speak for myself as a black woman. So i take great offense between, you know, when the media wants to reduce black people to voices in a collective box that have to be relegated to spokespeople. Peter, you dont have a white spokesperson that speaks on your behalf, do you . Maybe you do and i dont know about it, but i think i missed that memo. So when you look at cornel west, hes making a lot of money writing books about what black people should think and do and how hes the voice of black people. He teaches this stuff at princeton. Allen west, on the other hand, is telling people speak for yourself. He was a loud mouth, in a good way, congressman. He tells it like this it is, ane is much more of a hero and a champion to me for the cause of black america than cornel west will ever be. [laughter] so there. Host a little bit from crystal wright. Her new book, con job how democrats gave us crime, sanctuary cities, abortion, profiteering and racial division. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. When i tune into it on the weekends, usuall a