White Guilt = Black Power

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Shelby Steele

[VinnyTex]

By Shelby Steele. Mr. Steele, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is author of "A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America" (HarperCollins, 1998).

There should be many more imbroglios like the one currently playing out at Harvard University, enough for America to finally understand that white guilt is exactly the same thing as black power. But it is testament to the daunting power of white guilt that confrontations like this one happen so rarely.

[goodnesswins]

Shelby Steele is a SANE black man....and I hope he has protection.

[185JHP]

Mr. Steele does not mince words - or need to. Interesting that some Latinos are trying to "coattail" this imbroglio for there own "reparations" - but then their solidarity with blacks was evident in the Rodney King riots in L.A. - they were so outraged by the mistreatment of Rodney that 30% of the rioters were Latinos...

[Interesting Times]

An outstanding summary of the entire corrupt race dance.

And he points clearly to the only way out -- equal standards, equal treatment, equal justice.

[atafak]

How cute! The WSJ attempts to avoid the racism charge by getting a black to write the article.

[TONEMAN]

I love it! You can subsidize a professional malcontent, but there's no pleasing him. Sooner or later, it will be your turn to be vilified. That's too simple a truth for liberal eggheads to comprehend. Let them cannibalize each other.

[VinnyTex]

The WSJ attempts to avoid the racism charge

Are you suggesting the Wall Street Journal is racist?

[atafak]

No. I'm suggesting that "This is how the vacuum in white authority becomes cancerous."

[A CA Guy]

How do you get a black to do that? That is a rediculous statement atafak.

[okie01]

I'm suggesting that "This is how the vacuum in white authority becomes cancerous."

I see your point. Any number of white conservative thinkers could have written this same column. But the WSJ chose to publish the formulations of a black man, as if his color lends his words even more authority.

[Interesting Times]

But the WSJ chose to publish the formulations of a black man, as if his color lends his words even more authority.

Let's not play their game.

This is an excellent article, not a mediocre one published because of the race of the writer.

[TroutStalker]

Morning bump.

[TomServo]

And another......

[TomServo]

One more bump...

[AppyPappy]

Some Ivy Leaguers believe that Cornell West is considered "eminent" in the Ivy world because he is a caricature. Can you imagine them passing up Julian Bond or Andrew Young for a aging rapper?

[consultant]

Can anyone explain the value of a degree in African-American studies (or Women's studies, Hispanic studies, little green men from mars studies, etc.), other than a jobs program for minority professors who couldn't get a real degree?

Guess I must be a racist.

[Neets]

WHADDAYANUTZ??????????????????????????????????

WSJ isn't allowed to publish articles by blacks???????????????????????????????????????????????????

GO AWAY.,,,please.

[Razz Barry]

So whites have made it socially virtuous to defer and stand aside as institutions erode.

And when whites are silent, black mediocrity is no deterrent to black advancement.

So, whites are damned if they do or don't capitulate. Seems it's time to just do what's fair and right, then allow people to get glad in the same pants they got mad in.

[Stentor]

White Guilt

"Just say no." It's not easy to do where I live. Fortunately I am not that ambitious.

[goldstategop]

Why should whites get involved in the first place? No matter what we do or don't do it'll never be enough for the racial con artists. Let them go tend to their own affairs and leave us the hell alone.