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Shelby Steele
Sixty years ago, Shelby Steele was born to a black truck driver and a white social worker in Chicago. His parents were active in the struggle for civil rights, and encouraged him to make the most of his personal opportunities.
After completing a doctorate in English, Steele taught literature at San Jose State University. In 1990, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America.
Today, Steele is a research fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution, where he focuses on race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. His next book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, will be released in May.
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By accepting the idea that government is somehow going to take over the responsibility that only we can take, we relinquished authority over ourselves. We became child-like, and our families began to fall to pieces. Welfarewhich promised a subsistence living for the rest of your days for doing absolutely nothingprovided a perfect incentive to not get married, yet still have babies. Then the babies will be state wards, and their babies, and so forth.
Steele was interviewed for TAE by California-based journalist Michael Robinson
I've seen him speak on a couple of news shows, I really like what he has to say
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.19044/article_detail.asp
Sixty years ago, Shelby Steele was born to a black truck driver and a white social worker in Chicago. His parents were active in the struggle for civil rights, and encouraged him to make the most of his personal opportunities.
After completing a doctorate in English, Steele taught literature at San Jose State University. In 1990, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America.
Today, Steele is a research fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution, where he focuses on race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. His next book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, will be released in May.
Snip:
By accepting the idea that government is somehow going to take over the responsibility that only we can take, we relinquished authority over ourselves. We became child-like, and our families began to fall to pieces. Welfarewhich promised a subsistence living for the rest of your days for doing absolutely nothingprovided a perfect incentive to not get married, yet still have babies. Then the babies will be state wards, and their babies, and so forth.
Steele was interviewed for TAE by California-based journalist Michael Robinson
I've seen him speak on a couple of news shows, I really like what he has to say
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.19044/article_detail.asp
