How old is this guy??
“The problem that we have as blacks, as minorities, is what I call the shock of freedom.”
It’s been over 150 years. The shock ought to be wearing off by now.
Shelby had his 70th a few years ago.
The interesting but rarely reported part of his life is that during college and for years after, he was a “self-deluding Black Radical.”
Then he “woke-up and saw the light”, and became a conservative. His Ph D. is in English Lit and he is a retired college professor.
Shelby Steele is old enough (71) to have grown up with and experienced customary and enforced discrimination against blacks and the civil rights tumult of the sixties as a young man. With genuine insight, Steele has focused on the no longer justified sense of victimization among blacks as fostering a disabling sense of helplessness and resentment against whites. He refers to himself as a “black conservative” and opposes affirmative action.