Posted on 11/12/2017 6:30:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Shelby Steele, a prolific author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, warns liberalism is the biggest threat to American culture and breaks down race relation issues the country faces in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Liberalism is our biggest threat to our culture and our way of life,” says Steele, the author of five books.
For those who succumb to liberalism’s group identity, he says, it can retard human development for those claiming victimhood, while falsely elevating those who wrap themselves in empty idealisms and popularized notions like “diversity, “multiculturalism” and “inclusion.”
As a personal indulgence, I asked him why he has written that his “friend and hero” Justice Clarence Thomas is “the freest black man in America.” Citing Thomas’s background, rejection of identity politics and elevation to the Court, Steele says Thomas “doesn’t owe allegiance to any group.” “He’s on the Court as an individual making fascinating law with a unique mind.”
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As for the anti-Americanism becoming more mainstreamed and visible in the black community, Steele tracks this trend from the 1960s. He calls it “heart-breaking and sad” that anti-Americanism so dominates the American black identity now. This has been “ruinous to black America, where we are worse off than we were under segregation by almost every socio-economic measure.”
Steele’s advice to open-minded Americans beginning to reject group identity politics is simple – “You are free. There are no posses or lynch mobs after you. You are free.”
He credits white America for the level of moral progress he has witnessed in the last 60-70 years. He’s “impressed and humbled” at societal changes whites have made in his own lifetime. “I don’t know where else in the world that has happened.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Anti-Americanism in the Black community?
Charles Bolden, Obama’s NASA Administrator, who said (on tape) that NASA’s job was not space exploration, but rather to improve our standing with Moslem countries, named his son Che.
Then.... there was Obama’s America-hating “pastor”
Then..... there was Michelle “I was never proud of my country”
Then.... there was Obama himself.....
Gee, I wonder.....
I don't know of a case where Thomas and Scalia "made" laws, they interpret and clarify laws under the Constitution.
When ‘white people’ aren’t the Hollywood fantasy of blown away racists - liberalism’s group identity politics demands racial groups lie - make up stories - fabricate - to please white liberal elites:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/
Brother, you are living in the past..../S
https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/
(539) Black man spray painted “Go home nigger boy”, “Whites only”, a backward swastika and other slurs on his own car at Kansas State University. (Archive) 11/1/2017
(538) Black man spray painted swastikas on several Bay Area Rapid Transit System train stations. (Archive) 10/27/2017
(537) Black man spray painted a swastika on a trash cart at a residence hall at the University of Maryland. (Archive) 9/27/2017
(536) Black cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO was responsible for racist graffiti which read “Go home nigger” near the dorms of five black students. Investigators found he did it to get out of trouble relating to other misconduct at the school. (Archive) 9/25/2017
(535) White man lied about being stabbed by a black man because his haircut made him look like a neo-Nazi. Police found he had accidentally cut himself and made the story up. (Archive) 8/16/2017
Liberal judges make law, conservative judges enforce law.
Bkmk
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