Black Belt Patriotism

Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America is a non-fiction book by martial arts expert, actor, and conservative activist Chuck Norris. It was published on September 8, 2008 by Regnery Publishing.

The book includes Norris’s eight-point political program. On his view he is following the teachings of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

The book begins with a chapter called "One Nation, Divided, and Without a Clue", which summarizes eight perceived threats to the culture and politics of the United States of America. It then goes on to detail the problems and the author's solution to them, in as many chapters:

• first, a loss of connection to and sense of the Founders' America and their legacy, then
• uncontrolled over-spending and an aggravated debt burden, both nationally and personally,
• too much fluidity and too little protection along the Union's borders,
• loss of moral direction within the society, and the need to return to what Norris sees as the Founders' vision of civil life,
• the idea that Americans have lost a sense of human value and its emotional underpinnings, leading to mistreatment of others,
• concern over the way civil responsibility is passed from one generation to the next,
• the dissolution of the nuclear family as an ideal, and finally
• the idea that physical, mental, and spiritual apathy has become the norm in the American society, with dire consequences.

Norris's exposition takes a decidedly patriotic, nationalistic, traditionalist and polemic stance throughout. He relies on common sense and tries to motivate altruism through historical Aesops. He also espouses a thoroughly foundationalist attitude, in quoting extensively from the likes of Hamilton and Jefferson. Such "old solutions for new problems" as he calls them, include restoring good government, reducing taxes and debt, addressing border and immigration issues, raising youth, establishing morality and civility, and even enhancing good nutritional habits.

The book contains extensive citations to references which are commonly held to be reputable, while at the same time most of the actual content is anecdotal. Some of the content has also been marketed as never having been published before, lending a personal note to the work while at the same time suggesting an affinity to exposee.

As examples of the varied content of the book, there are personal accounts of contact with border agents and troops abroad, stories of American-heritage revisionism, discussion of Norris's weekly work-out plan, ideas about the flat tax and traditional animosity towards Muslim extremists, accounts of religious experience, and even his family's nutrition. Such disparate issues are consistently interpreted through Norris's view of how early Americans, and especially politicians, saw them. A center-page photo addendum is included.

The book concludes with a rallying call in chapter 10, "Reawaken the American Dream," then gives a few appendices in which are copies in entirety of the three historical American documents that Norris says should be posted in every American home: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Ten Commandments.

External links

• Black Belt Patriotism at Regnery Publishing
• Book review at Human Events
• FREE chapter of "Black Belt Patriotism" at www.ChuckNorrisNewBook.com
• Chuck & Gena Norris' interview about Black Belt Patriotism
• Mr. Norris' chaplain's stories of religious revisionism in Black Belt Patriotism
• Chuck Norris interview on Fox News