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Shelby Steele: The Exploitation of Trayvon Martin [Outstanding Analysis by Black Thinker!]
WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | 4/5/12 | Shelby Steele

Posted on 04/05/2012 7:26:31 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The absurdity of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites.

...The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this "truth" has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; democrats; jessejackson; obama; race; racebaiting; sharpton; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: samtheman

When I sent my son off to Coe College in the 90s I gave him a copy of Shelby Steele’s book, “The Content of our Character” which I had read. Steele was a Coe graduate who left college a liberal but with enough critical education that after working in programs left by Johnson’s Great Society, realized the falsehood of the path he had chosen.

He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute along with Thomas Sowell who gets a lot of coverage here.


21 posted on 04/05/2012 8:23:37 AM PDT by KC Burke (Newton's New First Law, Repeal and Restore!)
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To: Defiant
You are very welcome. Here are a few more.

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health."
-- Democrat Charles Barron, New York City Councilman

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them."
-- Democrat Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

(I) "will not let the white boys win in this election."
-- Democrat Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager

"The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning."
-- Democrat Jocelyn Elders, Surgeon General

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion."
-- Democrat Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation."
--Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."
-- Democrat Senator Joseph Biden Jr., (D., Del.), 2006-07

"I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be."
-- Democrat Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin

22 posted on 04/05/2012 8:24:30 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: SoFloFreeper

White Guilt:
How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

by Shelby Steele

One of the best books you will ever read about the contemporary race situation in the U.S.


23 posted on 04/05/2012 8:29:29 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Another good short article by Steele was when Time interviewed a number of Conservatives about why they were conservatives.

It is here:
http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/02/what-is-a-conservative/#what-does-a-conservative-believe-2


24 posted on 04/05/2012 8:32:03 AM PDT by KC Burke (Newton's New First Law, Repeal and Restore!)
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To: Tax-chick

Exactly....Dress for success: Wall Street or the Hood?


25 posted on 04/05/2012 8:32:14 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: The Great RJ
I still believe this whole Trayvon Martin incident was at least in part orchestrated by the White House. It took nearly a month for the race baiters to even show up...typically they would be there as quick as flies on dog turds. The timing and the location..Florida...a battleground state.

Agreed.

26 posted on 04/05/2012 8:32:15 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Black Thinker”? Really?


27 posted on 04/05/2012 8:32:37 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Tax-chick
"The absurdity of Messrs. Jackson and Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites."

Not absurd if one considers their true motive. Tools of the the Marxist puppet masters such as Jackson and Sharpton deliberately further Obama's Marxist agenda by using such "anomalies" to incite further divisions between the races.

28 posted on 04/05/2012 8:37:48 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: SoFloFreeper
So the idea that Trayvon Martin is today's Emmett Till, as the Rev. Jackson has said, suggests nothing less than a stubborn nostalgia for America's racist past... this chance to ennoble oneself through a courageous moral stand is what so many blacks and white liberals miss today—now that white racism is such a defeated idea. There is a nostalgia for that time when posture alone ennobled. So today even the hint of old-fashioned raw racism excites with its potential for ennoblement.

Insightful and well-put.

29 posted on 04/05/2012 8:38:21 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SuzyQue

I know that characterizing or categorizing someone by their race is really something that can be a stunningly unconservative thing to do, but there are times when it serves a purpose.

I shared an office for a time in 2008 with a young black engineer who grew up in the heart of Detroit. He was a conservative from his highschool years after watching what the left had done to his community. He was maturing and wanting something beyond what he could get from talk radio. He wanted that knowledge to help him communicate with his extended family and those he grew up with.

I laid out the long list of conservatives who happened to be black who fall into the list of conservative writers and thinkers. He knew Walter Williams and Larry Elder from their radio work but didn’t yet know of Sowell, Steele, Watts, and others that are great thinkers in the pantheon of conservative writers.

I like to know of great thinkers from Kansas City, or of English or German ancestry. It isn’t that I ignore others, but it is that connective bond of community and family that conservatives always describe as being the true strength of the individual and his heritage.


30 posted on 04/05/2012 8:44:00 AM PDT by KC Burke (Newton's New First Law, Repeal and Restore!)
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To: Tax-chick
However, I do make sure the garage door is down and the van is locked when my neighbor’s son - the one with the felony record - has his friends hanging around, in falling-down pants and ski caps in summer. And they’re all white.

LOL! For the first two years of high school, our youngest son attended an all boys Catholic prep school. Our two older boys graduated from there, and it's a good school, but our younger son used to get so annoyed by the white middle class kids in the school 'acting ghetto'. What's funny was that the black middle class kids DIDN'T act that way!

31 posted on 04/05/2012 8:50:42 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Tax-chick
Great point!

And it goes back to that wise and wonderful truth expressed eloquently by Martin Luther King: a person should be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin.

And that's how Zimmerman and Trayvon should be judged! But the media is doing to Zimmerman supporters exactly what they have done to opponents of Obama: putting the lens of COLOR and not CHARCTER in front of us because a judgment of character assume a standard of right/wrong, good/evil, that they have are VERY uncomfortable with, and consistently try to belittle as being "conservative" and/or "fundamenalist".

That's why they are so eager to portray Conservatives as judging Obama on the basis skin color, and not character content.

Personally, I as a Conservative will respect the President ONLY because of the Office he holds; but do not ask me to automatically respect the content of his character because of the color of his skin!

Because that is RACIST!

32 posted on 04/05/2012 9:01:54 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement.)
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To: Mr. K; laotzu

Excellent follow up to an excellent post.


33 posted on 04/05/2012 9:27:44 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: krb
wearing a polo shirt with an alligator logo Hmmm.

Like OJ Simpson?

34 posted on 04/05/2012 9:32:04 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: The Great RJ
I still believe this whole Trayvon Martin incident was at least in part orchestrated by the White House.


35 posted on 04/05/2012 9:37:59 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Here's the keeper from the article...

After the '60s—in a society guilty for its long abuse of us—we took our historical victimization as the central theme of our group identity. We could not have made a worse mistake.

It has given us a generation of ambulance-chasing leaders, and the illusion that our greatest power lies in the manipulation of white guilt.

IMO, it is this victim mentality that has all but destroyed the Black culture in America.

36 posted on 04/05/2012 9:41:49 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Mr. K
If you get good grades in school you get ostracized by fellow blacks for "actin' white"

When I was in school, you got ostracized by fellow whites for being a bookworm(nerd, for you younger folks).

37 posted on 04/05/2012 9:43:14 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Reads like a Bill Cosby moment. Sadly, this will be discarded. Jackson, and Sharpton already made their con-hate-dough over the last week.


38 posted on 04/05/2012 9:45:06 AM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Shelby Steele is very wise.


39 posted on 04/05/2012 9:51:39 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: thethirddegree

The first is obvious: A teenager—unarmed and committing no crime—was shot dead.
This is a lie. Trayvon Martin was committing assault when he was shot dead. He got what he deserved.”””

AMEN.

Kid bit off far more than he could handle.


40 posted on 04/05/2012 9:54:20 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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