Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele
Shelby Steeleis an American 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...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth1 January 1946
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Freedom always carries the burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.
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From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.
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Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
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Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.
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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.
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The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
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A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.
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Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.
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Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
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Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
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Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.
fighting opportunity identity
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.