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Self-hate is a b!tch.
White people you see created everything. They even take one hour off from work to go outside and make shiny rainbows. It takes time away from work but they do it for the joy it gives to us lesser non whites.
I see what he's trying to say......or what he wanted to say....or.....
Forget it.
I think what he's trying to say is that, in terms of having to overcome racism from the position of being the racist, whites have had the furthest to come.
I can't necessarily say that I disagree with that.
Imagine how many times a minority had to overcome the immoral desire for revenge ...... or wanted to....... oh nevermind.
Do you ever really think through a oint before making it?
Let's try this:
What I think Steele was saying is that as far as having been the ones who have openly committed racist actions against others-and then losing their legal cover for doing so-, white people have had to make the biggest adjustment of any other racial group.
Now, if you can show me another minority that's been as racist towards another as whites were historically were to us, then I'll stand corrected. Doubt you'll find it...hell, I doubt you'll even look.
But that's like complimenting ex-child rapists for
finally having a normal sex life.
If a Powell-or an unknown Obama-would've said it, it would have been alright. You might not have agreed, but would have seen what he was trying to say. Cause they would have said it better, more elequently.
But from this dude? Only thing that would make it worse is if David Duke said it.
You misspeled eloquently.
:-)
Problem for me is when he says how whites have grown he implies Blacks (and other groups ) haven't made the same progress with racial understanding.
The moral part is seeing the effects of racism as hurtful to our entire country... which I have to say most whites don't see quite yet.
So I would say that there have been strides within the last 40 years towards racial understanding. Not saying we've arrived, but there is growth.
Shelby Steele however is one dancing, smiling, happy to please a white man mf.
Respect, D.
Ha!
I love you guys even more now!
No props for no longer enslaving, lynching, raping, displacing bloodlines, and excluding Blacks from economic opportunity.
Stop right there. The only other guys that belong in the Negro Self-Hatred Club is Clarence Thomas and Ward Connerly.
Unfortunately there are too many.
I have very little to say about this statement but....hahaha.
When did he say or write this?
It's already a lonely world for the Clarence Thomases and Ward Connerlys--their dream of converting more "financially-well-off" AAs to the darkside will collapse.
May the mother embrace his soul and the son grant him peace in this age.
Chicago Tribune, reviewed Steele's book[5] and disagreed with his analysis of Obama noting that:
"[as] I read his essay, I found myself thinking that Steele was trapped in a time warp, that his knowledge of the currents of thought and attitude among black people stopped sometime around 1990. Less charitably, I found myself thinking that the egregious Al Sharpton is not the only one with an investment in a static view of American race relations....It apparently never occurs to Steele that for a man a generation younger than himself the terms of blackness might be different, that the “totalitarian” demands he [Steele] encountered in the ’60s might no longer prevail, that Barack Obama’s mixed-race experience might actually be different than Shelby Steele’s."[5]
and where Steele is coming from makes a little more sense, now (and off topic, I like the bonus smack against Al Sharpton).