FROM THE PUBLISHER
Much has been said about Bill Cosby's incendiary remarks about urban black culture and its "dirty laundry." But in this provocative book, Star Parker goes even further, proving that urban plight simply reveals a decay that is gnawing its way throughout American society as a whole. The sexual chaos, values disorientation, and social turmoil we see in our inner cities, Parker contends, is merely a more sharply focused picture of moral collapse in mainstream America. Covering today's hot-button issues, such as abortion, drug use, and our ever-increasing crime rate, Parker argues that wealth and infrastructure have cushioned the collapse in the 'burbs, but the disease is the same and only waits for the support structures to falter and fracture before ghetto culture hits the family down the street, or in your own house.