White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
by Shelby Steele
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Author: Shelby SteeleEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Book Review: Missing facts
Summary: 1 Stars
Shelby Steele's omissions of facts and critical thought are atrocious. These are a few issues that Steele fails to mention in his book. Withholding the truth is the same as lying.
1) Eisenhower had a lengthy affair with Ann Sommersby
2) The times of Eisenhower wouldn't have allowed the equivalent of $60 million dollars spent on what a president does behind closed doors. Especially since the country was nowhere near as partisan as it is today.
3) He mentioned the L.A. riots but doesn't mention the impact of the unjust verdict on the event.
4) Steele mentions global racism but doesn't mention America's impact on Latin America and Africa.
5) Steele doesn't know what racial experience every black has on a college campus. A friend of mine at U. of Maryland has the first black college president and received numerous death threats which were covered on national media.
6) Steele's "basketball to books" analogy doesn't point out that the parameters of basketball are the same for all players whereas educational achievement has very subjective limits.
7) Mark Fuhrman lied about his use of a racial slur in court. The slur was about the race of the primary suspect, OJ Simpson. Fuhrman was the lead investigator on the case. Could an investigator, who used racial slurs then lied about them, taint evidence? That possibility was brought into play.
8) Johnnie Cochran's job as a defense attorney is to get his client found innocent. Period!
9) According to the Labor Dept., WHITE women are the largest beneficiaries of affirmative action programs.
10) A person having to do an act, such as Steele quitting his job as a bus driver, to show their blackness shows more of a person's inner identity crisis. A true black person is black no matter what they do and need no validation of that fact.
11) Blacks have been at the bottom of most social indicators before and after the "Great Society" was even a concept. Hence, a constant underclass
12) Steele states, "Clarence Thomas has more moral authority on racial issues than Maureen Dowd." He gives no reason why he feels that way; hence, he must feel that way only because Thomas is black. Looking at Thomas' voting record, his moral authority is up for serious question.
13) Dowd's opinion is shared by most blacks and Thomas' qualifications were in question during his whole confirmation in the Senate.
14) Whites let blacks participate such as Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airman, and Charles Drew among others not out of guilt but because those blacks were supremely talented to their white counterparts.
15) It is almost impossible to have individual wealth for the masses without fighting for social justice first.
16) Most black leaders have been asking for equal protection under the law and equal pay for equal work, not a hand outs from the government like Bear Sterns, Lehman Bros. Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac do.
17) Dick Cheney keeps his job when his chief of staff was guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. Steele doesn't bring that up with his comparison to Bill Clinton.
18) You can only measure reform by results. Steele doesn't bring up other ways that reform can be measured either.
19) Steele doesn't mention on one page the plight of black women in our society.
20) If you feel guilty, you did something wrong.
Not saying that every white person feels guilty but Steele insinuates that feeling.
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