Shelby Steele. Articles. Excerpts. MCRI
Shelby Steele is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of a number of books on racial and social affairs. A number of his articles are available online. His work is highly insightful into the tragic dynamics of black, white politics and racial preferences. A person from whom Michigan has much to learn.
The age of white guilt: and the disappearance of the black individual. Shelby Steele. Harper’s Magazine, November 30, 1999.
“Restraint should be the watchword in racial matters. We should help people who need help. There are, in fact, no races that need help; only individuals, citizens.”
Engineering Mediocrity October 30, 2000
“If the era of affirmative action is creeping toward an ignominious end, one of its lessons is that racial disparities ought never be occasions for social engineering. Absent a hard-earned parity of skills and abilities between the races, inclusion is necessarily a corruption.”
A Victory for White Guilt. Justice O’Connor and her colleagues embrace anti-Americanism. The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2003.
“We deserve justices who can feel certain about the capacity of whites to be fair and the capacity of minorities to compete.”
Witness. Blacks, whites, and the politics of shame in America. SHELBY STEELE. OpinionJournal. October 26, 2005.
“Mutual witness will go on no matter what balances of power we strike. It is best to be open, and allow the “other’s” witness to inspire rather than shame.”
“Live” with Shelby Steele. The American Enterprise Online. April 2006.
“Now it’s time for blacks to make a similar transformation, to grow up, and take responsibility for their own future. If they don’t do it, they’re not going to have prospects that amount to very much. If they do do it, they’ll be able to succeed. We’ve come to a place in our history where the real onus for change is on black Americans.”
White Guilt. Frontpage Interview. Shelby Steele. FrontPageMagazine.com. July 27, 2006.
“Why do white liberals reject personal responsibility? Because the symbiosis between white guilt and black power requires that only whites be responsible for racial equality. Only by literally stealing responsibility from blacks can white liberals claim the moral authority that protects them from the racist stigma.”
Audio & Video Interviews online:
Shelby Steele. Audio Interview. 2006. Commonwealth Club of California
Shelby Steele. E-Race-ing Entitlements. October 10th, 1999. Grace Cathedral
Shelby Steele. Video. Bradley lecture. May 1, 2006
While Shelby Steele has other articles of note online, these focus perhaps the most usefully on our racial dilemmas of the moment, long and short.
Frederick Glaysher
Why Voters Should Approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
http://www.fglaysher.com/MCRI/