My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racism and bigotry generally are the great driving engines of modern American liberalism. Even a remote hint of racism can trigger a… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Normally, 'black responsibility' is a forbidden phrase for a black leader -- not because blacks reject responsibility, but because even the idea… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I am a black American, I say, and thus announce my atavistic connection to all others who live as black Americans, to… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whites know never tell blacks what you really think and what you really feel because you risk being seen as a racist.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In America, many marginally competent or flatly incompetent whites are hired every day -some because their white skin suits the conscious or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
You are, in fact, stigmatized as a racist, because, after all, you have know acknowledged that your nation practiced racism explicitly for… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability is that both blacks and whites can use our impossible racial authenticity against us. Both races can throw up our… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In looking at difficulties in the black American community over the years, it has always astounded me how much white Americans take… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal -… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
