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White Guilt = Black Power
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Shelby Steele

Posted on 01/07/2002 8:35:06 PM PST by VinnyTex

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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1 posted on 01/07/2002 8:35:06 PM PST by VinnyTex
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To: VinnyTex
Shelby Steele is a SANE black man....and I hope he has protection.
2 posted on 01/07/2002 8:39:04 PM PST by goodnesswins
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To: VinnyTex
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...
3 posted on 01/07/2002 8:43:58 PM PST by 185JHP
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To: VinnyTex
An outstanding summary of the entire corrupt race dance.

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

4 posted on 01/07/2002 8:45:26 PM PST by Interesting Times
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To: VinnyTex
How cute! The WSJ attempts to avoid the racism charge by getting a black to write the article.
5 posted on 01/07/2002 9:04:08 PM PST by atafak
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To: Interesting Times
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.
6 posted on 01/07/2002 9:06:41 PM PST by TONEMAN
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To: atafak
The WSJ attempts to avoid the racism charge

Are you suggesting the Wall Street Journal is racist?

7 posted on 01/07/2002 9:11:26 PM PST by VinnyTex
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To: VinnyTex
No. I'm suggesting that "This is how the vacuum in white authority becomes cancerous."
8 posted on 01/07/2002 9:17:53 PM PST by atafak
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To: atafak
How do you get a black to do that? That is a rediculous statement atafak.
9 posted on 01/07/2002 9:21:23 PM PST by A CA Guy
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To: atafak
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.

10 posted on 01/07/2002 9:36:24 PM PST by okie01
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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.

11 posted on 01/07/2002 10:35:56 PM PST by Interesting Times
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To: VinnyTex
Morning bump.
12 posted on 01/08/2002 1:24:03 AM PST by TroutStalker
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To: TroutStalker
And another......
13 posted on 01/08/2002 4:31:18 AM PST by TomServo
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To: VinnyTex
One more bump...
14 posted on 01/08/2002 6:01:23 AM PST by TomServo
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To: VinnyTex
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?
15 posted on 01/08/2002 6:10:11 AM PST by AppyPappy
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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.

16 posted on 01/08/2002 6:39:34 AM PST by consultant
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To: atafak
WHADDAYANUTZ??????????????????????????????????

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

GO AWAY.,,,please.

17 posted on 01/08/2002 6:46:17 AM PST by Neets
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To: VinnyTex
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.

18 posted on 01/08/2002 6:49:48 AM PST by Razz Barry
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To: VinnyTex
White Guilt

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

19 posted on 01/08/2002 6:54:06 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Razz Barry
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.
20 posted on 01/08/2002 6:58:11 AM PST by goldstategop
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