My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee] or Michael Steele [former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland], no relation, both of whom present themselves as individuals, and don't seem to wear a mask. They don't 'bargain;' they don't 'challenge.' So, I see them as fresh, and as evidence of what I hope will be a new trend.
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.
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.
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.
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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