Dr. Shelby Steele shows the path of the greatness of African American community

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Martha McCallum with Dr. Shelby Steele

• "What happened in Minneapolis is an obvious tragedy. But it is not something that is going to interrupt our greatness, and it tells us all the more clearly that we have to be the engineers of our fate. We have to be the agents of our fate in America“.
• "We need to go with that, to like ourselves, to respect ourselves, and stop continually trying to solicit to the Joe Bidens of the world in that corrupt symbiosis with white guilt; thinking that that is our way ahead. It is not our way ahead -- we are our own best resource."
• "We live in, for a lack of a better term, a white guilt world," Steele told "The Story" host Martha MacCallum. "What is Mr. Biden doing? Does he really deeply care about black America and the problems that we have, or is he using our pain as a kind of advertisement of his own moral vanity?"
• "Does [Biden] know anything at all, really, about the difficulties that black Americans face now, many of which have nothing in the world to do with racism?" 
• The author went on to compare what he called the "white guilt exploitation of black pain" to the more obvious sin of segregation.
• "In either case, we end up as blacks dependent on what people like Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, American liberalism, what those things do," he said. "We in a sense are dependent on them, and we are trained and encouraged to see our opportunity through them."

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Wikipedia, Shelby Steele

• Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946) is an American conservative author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.
• In 1990, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general nonfiction category for his book The Content of Our Character.
• Steele received a B.A. in political science from Coe College, an M.A. in sociology from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah.
• Career. Steele is a black conservative. He opposes policies such as affirmative action, which he considers to be unsuccessful liberal campaigns to promote equal opportunity for African Americans. He contends that blacks have been "twice betrayed:" first by slavery and oppression and then by group preferences mandated by the government, which discourage self-agency and personal responsibility in blacks.

Bibliography

Books

• The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. Harper Perennial. 1991. ISBN 0-06-097415-X.
• A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. Harper Perennial. 1998. ISBN 0-06-093104-3.
• White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. HarperCollins. 2006. ISBN 0-06-057862-9.
• A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. HarperCollins. 2007. ISBN 1-4165-5917-5.
• Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country. Basic Books. 2015. ISBN 0-4650-6697-6.

Documentary films

• (narrator) (1990-05-11). "Seven Days in Bensonhurst". Frontline. PBS. WGBH, Boston.
• (writer, narrator) (2000-05-02). "Jefferson's Blood". Frontline. PBS. WGBH, Boston.

Awards

• National Book Critics Circle Award (1990) in the general non-fiction category for the book The Content of Our Character.
• Emmy and Writers Guild Awards for his 1991 Frontline documentary film Seven Days in Bensonhurst.