Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.
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.
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…
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.
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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