I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will have to get to know me as an individual. The color of my skin won't tell you anything. I think there's more and more of that in America.
I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But … - Shelby Steele
I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But …
- Shelby Steele
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate. - Shelby Steele
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.
My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead. - Shelby Steele
My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.
The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance. - Shelby Steele
The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. - Shelby Steele
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has no… - Shelby Steele
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has no…
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. - Shelby Steele
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it. - Shelby Steele
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.
Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box. - Shelby Steele
Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.
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