Posted on 10/22/2020 6:04:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"Unfortunately, we have found that your title doesn't meet Prime Video's content quality expectations and is not eligible for publishing on the service at the time," an Amazon spokesperson informed Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele last week.
"We will not be accepting resubmission of this title and this decision may not be appealed," the email continued. "We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause."
Fortunately for the viewers and for Amazon, its brass had a change of heart. "They acknowledged what happened and said they would work to improve and prevent incidences like this one from happening again," said Steele's son Eli, the film's director.
Now with Amazon's reluctant blessing, the film should be required viewing at every "diversity" training session forced on corporate America, starting with its newsrooms. Written and narrated by Shelby Steele, the film traces the demise of Ferguson's Michael Brown to its roots in the guilt-driven "reforms" of the 1960s. As in his many books, Steele does not slug. He jabs with precision. Over the years, no one has spoken about race relations more accurately or more sensitively than Steele.
According to Steele, the Chicago-born son of a black father and white mother, America had begun to address the obvious imperfections in its racial history just as "liberals" — a word he does not shy from using — were coming to power. Young liberals sensed a crack in moral authority as their parents' generation struggled to atone for its racial sins and drove a wedge through it.
Liberals would celebrate themselves not for honing their own character or for honoring a larger principle, but for disassociating themselves from the sins of their parents, real and imagined.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I already know ‘What Killed Michael Brown’...Michael Brown.
When does the next season of Bosch start?
But now you can buy it from Amazon for $13.95. No rental option yet, unfortunately, so you can "own" it until the next time Amazon decides to censor it when the heat is off.
“What killed Michael Brown”?
Stupidity, same as Trevon Martin. They both attacked men who had guns.
Next and I believe last, hopefully in February.
“Unfortunately, we have found that your title doesn’t meet Prime Video’s content quality expectations and is not eligible for publishing on the service at the time,”
Time to start boycotting Amazon?
You’re right as far as you go, but I’m pretty sure Shelby Steele is using the title for effect and is proving more deeply into the reasons why race relations in America are the way they are. Brown was the proximate cause of his own death, but ultimately he was killed because of the liberal agenda implemented in the 1960’s in the name of racist equality. Instead of equality, that agenda promoted victimization and destruction of the social fabric of the black community. The destruction of the black family and its replacement with the “Great Society” agenda is ultimately what killed Michael Brown.
Amazon Cancels Shelby Steele
The company won’t stream a film on the ‘real victimization of black America.’
It’s written and narrated by Shelby Steele, the prominent African-American scholar at the Hoover Institution, and directed by his filmmaker son, Eli Steele. Its subject—race relations—is a major fault line in this year’s presidential election, one reason the Steeles scheduled their film for release on Oct. 16. Our columnist Jason Rileywrote about the film on Wednesday.
One problem: “What Killed Michael Brown?” doesn’t fit the dominant narrative of white police officers killing young black men because of systemic racism
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-cancels-shelby-steele-11602715834
These little Goebbels are truly despicable!
You’re quite right. I meant in the very short term and I agree with yours and Shelby Steele’s analysis.
BTW, I believe a lot of the Appalachian whites share a lot of the problems that hold them back as inner city blacks, though not quite the same ones you mentioned.
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