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Shelby Steele

By lex, on December 30th, 2009

Along with Juan Williams, one of my must reads, especially on the topic of race in America.

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December 30th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Politics and Culture

3 comments to Shelby Steele

  • virgil xenophon
    December 31, 2009 at 12:53 am

    There was a really nice discussion about this article over at Ann Althouse’s site today. In fact she had several up about his various incarnations; one about Michelle Cottle attacking Obama about his golfing; Ann herself “correcting” Obama’s grammar; one about the latest critique by our gal “MODO” and one other I can’t recall the title of. All, all, of the comments made for fascinating (or at least highly enjoyable) reading.

    Besides Shelby, his fellow Hooverite Thomas Sowell (reg@ Townhall, JWR and elsewhere) rights some really insightful stuff about race, education, culture and economics, as does Walter Williams (posts mostly @Townhall) Also John McWhorter at the Manhattan Institute produces some nice stuff on race, education and culture though is somewhat less of a true conservative than the others.

    Shelby saw this coming well before the election in a series of articles playing off his latest pre-election book which presciently centered on much of the cultural/racial phenomnae that led to Obama’s victory. This is just the latest in a series he has written for the WSJ–ALL good stuff. Rush (who hopefully will pull thru his poss. MI in Hawaii) picked up on Steele’s work early and quoted him often during the election campaign.

    Of course all of these guys have been “disappeared” by the MSM–any black intellectual and/or academic BUT them is the rule (with the exception of McWhorter, whom they still cut some slack and give some face time and column space as he is really a trad. “Liberal” in the best classic English sense of the word) so they collectively remain foreign to the vast majority of the general public in a way that, say, black Pulitzer Prize winning (gag) dolt Eugene Robinson of the WAPO and MSNBC is not.

  • Kris, in New England
    December 31, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Obama himself said, during the campaign, that he is the blank canvas people project their hopes and dreams upon.

    I remember people thinking that was so profound, so erudite, so very very cool.

    I remember thinking that the man just told everyone he is, indeed, and empty suit. A blank slate.

  • Ron Snyder
    January 1, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    “The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.” quoted fom a memo written by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    Have to say that I am pretty much tired of the constant jabbering about race, other than perhaps the demographic changes in America related to same (though that is more about culture, economics, ethics- rather than race).

    People use the topic of race to further their agenda, and in my opinion is most often used as a red herring. Or to make Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rich. And to make BHO president.

    Did not do Moynihan any good, though he in general did not give a hoot what others thought, when he published “The Moynihan Report” back in 1965. A crucial sentence of his was “A national effort is required that will give a unity of purpose to the many activities of the Federal government in this area, directed to a new kind of national goal: the establishment of a stable Negro family structure.” Let’s see, written forty-five years ago, and IMO his observations and recommendations are still valid. And still being ignored.

    The report can be found at http://bit.ly/76fG0N
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