I love Shelby Steele's work. His previous book, titled "White Guilt" was so informative and he linked history to where we are today. Not enough conservative voices like Shelby, who tells it like it is.
He basically says that Blacks have freedom, but do not know how to handle it based on their history. Personal responsibility is not on the radar. Black communities are plagued by a 72% out of wedlock birth rate, little or no focus on education partially caused by pathetic schools in the inner city, a prevalence of gangs and drugs given the lack of male roll models in the home, and the ability to play the race card to get stuff. Whites are petrified of being called racist and blacks use it to their advantage.