If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her. Shelby Steele Read Quote
I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black skin with the United States Presidency, with power on that level – the idea is that to have a black in that office leading a largely white country would be redemptive for America. Shelby Steele Read Quote
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., into a maelstrom of police dogs and billy clubs. Shelby Steele Read Quote
Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people. Shelby Steele Read Quote
Liberal criticism of George W. Bush’s minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on the manipulation of group identity in America as a means to political power. Shelby Steele Read Quote
Through protest – especially in the 1950s and ’60s – we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute. Shelby Steele Read Quote
Normally, ‘black responsibility’ is a forbidden phrase for a black leader — not because blacks reject responsibility, but because even the idea of black responsibility weakens moral leverage over whites. Shelby Steele Read Quote
I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part of the self. Shelby Steele Read Quote
The ‘safe spaces’ for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and empowerment. Shelby Steele Read Quote
Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must assert ideological liberalism in order to make others comfortable about her blackness. Shelby Steele Read Quote
