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Books : White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Sales Rank: 30590
Studio: HarperCollins
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In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt—and neither has been good for African Americans.
Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.
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Shelby Steele's omissions of facts and critical thought are atrocious. These are a few issues that Steele fails to mention in his book. Withholding the truth is the same as lying.
1) Eisenhower had a lengthy affair with Ann Sommersby
2) The times of Eisenhower wouldn't have allowed the equivalent of $60 million dollars spent on what a president does behind closed doors. Especially since the country was nowhere near as partisan as it is today.
3) He mentioned the L.A. riots but doesn't mention the impact of the unjust verdict on the event.
4) Steele mentions global racism but doesn't mention America's impact on Latin America and Africa.
5) Steele doesn't know what racial experience every black has on a college campus. A friend of mine at U. of Maryland has the first black college president and received numerous death threats which were covered on national media.
6) Steele's "basketball to books" analogy doesn't point out that the parameters of basketball are the same for all players whereas educational achievement has very subjective limits.
7) Mark Fuhrman lied about his use of a racial slur in court. The slur was about the race of the primary suspect, OJ Simpson. Fuhrman was the lead investigator on the case. Could an investigator, who used racial slurs then lied about them, taint evidence? That possibility was brought into play.
8) Johnnie Cochran's job as a defense attorney is to get his client found innocent. Period! ... Read More
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This is a superbly wtitten and well argued book that views the impact of the sixties from a vanatge point that is often occluded by the almost universal excitement, attention, and interest that surrounds an intense time in American life--and is made problematic by the din of much generational noise trying to make sense of what was happening in American society and on the college campus.
As a New York City baby boomer who came of age at the time I have been following the differing interpretations of what this may have meant for many of us. Steele's informal (yet informative) sytle is very refreshing. I have also been at a loss to understand or explain what I would call "tyrannies of the left", namely, much of the misguided cant and shoddy scholarship that seems to be the standard fare in many college English departments. My particular gripe is how so many well intended people basically destroyed the CUNY system.
Once the hope of many who, like myself, couldn't afford higher education in the private "free market" but who knew that, with good grades and hard work, there was a place that offerred world class teaching and opportinities absent the requirement of tuition. It was once the crown jewel of "The Big Apple." No more. Open admissions and escalating fees have basically gutted what it once meant to have have access to a genuine higher education via meritocracy. Faculty were first rate and the students were among the brightest in the city. ... Read More
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Explains clearly, through the experience and scholarship of a black who came of age in the 1960s and had a ringside seat for the civil rights era, how we all went wrong. Since its purpose is not equal rights but "dissociation" of whites from accusations of racism, affirmative action is itself racist, as it assaults the uniqueness of all Americans by reducing them to generic blacks and generic whites. Hard reading, but is only 181 relatively short pages and will reward your effort. Can also be expanded to various other problems, such as the oversupply of handicapped parking spaces and the rising reverse sex discrimination in business.
The result of all this may be no less than the destruction of American strength, an end to the valued status of "personal responsibility, hard work, individual initiative, delayed gratification, commitment to excellence, competition by merit, the honor in achievement" (p. 109), and, with it, an end to American greatness. We need a national dialogue on how we can reverse it - Barack, are you ready? In the meantime, all Americans should read this book.
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"White Guilt" by Shelby Steele is well worth your time. If you're wondering how race relations in this country have become so poisonous, Shelby Steele has a significant part of the answer. Here's how toxic race relations are in this country right now: it's significant (even though it should not be) that Shelby Steele is black.
Steele describes how guilt-motivated bad behavior on the part of white people has enabled anger-motivated bad behavior by black militants (e.g. Al Sharpton), to the point that the "conversation on race" that everyone talks about is difficult-to-impossible. Black or white, if you say the wrong thing, you're in big trouble.
I hope a lot of people read this book. It might help.
Here are some other books that might also help:
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors
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At first I was confused as to where he was going with the introduction but then as I read on it made a little more sense. I found that he seemed to do a lot of double talking that made some of his points difficult to understand. Along with the difficulty understanding the basis for some of his arguments, I did tend to agree with him on some occasions. If you like reading essay formats so to speak, this is a book for you. I tend to prefer a bit more of a story when I read.
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