By Rick Lowe
Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution who specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action released White Guilt in 1995. And if you’ve read The Content of Our Character you will certainly enjoy this.
He pulls no punches as usual, and emphasizes that responsibility is key to the advancement of any race.
Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage points out in the liner notes that Steele is “our twenty-first century Socrates: the powerful, lucid, and elegent voice of a refreshingly independent thinker who desires only to see us liberated from sophistry and self-destructive illusions.”
Seems like a few of our politicians could do with a good dose of Steele reality!
See this link for his Wikipedia bio.
Oh by the way, get a copy, it’s a great read.
Rick
Steele certainly contributes an important voice to the contemporary debate on race matters in America; even if only a still small voice in response to the deafening chants of victimology amongst blacks.
But calling him “our twenty-first century Socrates” (as Johnson does) seems specious and uninformed praise at best. After all, Steele’s books are merely repackagings of the black empowerment message that Booker T Washington preached during the late-19th century.
Therefore, if he must personify the philosophy of any dead man, calling him our twenty-first century Booker T has the benefit of being not only politically, but also racially, correct.
However, there are too many reasons to cite why America’s race debate holds no water in The Bahamas – the most obvious being that we constitute the overwhelming majority (and are in complete control of our destiny); whereas, blacks in America always have been and are becoming an even smaller minority….