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Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele, a relatively obscure professor of English in California who was rapidly elevated to public visibility by the anti-affirmative action message in his book, The Content of Our Character. Steele now serves as a resident scholar at the Hoover Institution.

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New York Times Magazine
January 20, 2002

Glenn Loury's About Face

This New York Times Magazine profile of Glenn Loury has the subject talking about Shelby Steele:

Shelby's position was that we had to completely transcend race...How could it have been otherwise? His mother was a white woman. His wife is a white woman. When he looked at his own children's racial identity and wondered about an oppressive world that would say to those children, 'Choose sides' -- a dilemma I'd never faced -- Shelby's angle of vision was really quite different from my own...''

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Booman Tribune
May 2, 2006

Shelby Steele: Cultured, Erudite Racist

Today, we have our own version of Kipling in noted writer Shelby Steele, in this essay in which he bemoans our nation's "White Guilt" and asks us to transcend it in order to bomb the crap out of 21st Century wogs.

White Guilt? you ask. Is he serious? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is a resounding "Yes."

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Busy,Busy,Busy
September 17, 2003

Shorter Shelby Steele: Race Card Is the Sign of a Losing Hand

If racial discrimination occurs in a state but no government agency is there to heed it, it does not hurt a soul.

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