Best-selling author Shelby Steele, a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, says the current protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have no clear objective, and an exclusive focus on police brutality, when the Black community could take more personal responsibility to improve their lot in life. His nearly-nine-minute remarks on Mark Levin’s show run counter to the narrative you hear in the mainstream media. Is the author of “The Content of Our Character” no longer down for the struggle, or does he simply walk the “the road not taken”?
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Shelby Steele Interview with Mark Levin
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Levin/Steele interview video blocked… I’ll just have to find it on youtube, or Fox Video directly…
Edited: note, I found the edit button, but it is very difficult to ‘find‘ unless you already know where to look… (for others who have difficulty, it is the ‘gear’ icon that may/may not show up unless your mouse is over the spot. When you hover over icon, it may say something like ‘manage’, but if you click it, it then says ‘edit’.
I looked on youtube and found a 2018 Levin/Steele interview, very very good. But then I noticed it was 2018. So I went to Fox Video and found the Levin show for this past weekend, and found the actual interview being talked about. (Actually, more of the same as from 2018, but pertinent to the Floyd issue).
I have to wonder how many of these DMCA takedown requests are actually filed by people who actually have the legal standing to represent the copyright owner, and how much effort YouTube puts into verifying their identities.
Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B.DuBois
So sorry that W.E.B. seems to have “won”.
I had to check because I thought it might be farther back that Milwaukee had a republican mayor. Doesn’t look like there has been one for a century. Two socialists though.
And Scott… please don’t insult weasels like that!
Now, its time to move the goal posts again. Where is my shovel? /sarc.
It’s perfectly obvious that BLM is the realization of W.E.B. DuBois’ dream.
We have always been War with covid, we will always be at war with covid. This is my objection to the masks , they will NEVER say ok ditch the masks.
So, Mr. Steele will be canceled in 5…4…3…
I’m actually in the middle of crafting a blog post on Washington/Du Bois, but it’s had to go on hold while I deal with my students’ research papers. I taught them side-by-side earlier this year.
Did you show them some of Bill’s videos on the topic?
No. I’ve got to watch with what I share and from where, but I did convey the information in it.
God bless you. I hope some of your students read about them with an open mind and learned something.
Oh, they did. Some of them had covered them briefly in AP US History (I’m teaching English). We read Washington first (“Signs of Progress Among the Negroes”), and they pretty much agreed with Washington. Then we read the piece by Du Bois (directed at Washington), and while some of them then agreed with Du Bois, several changed their minds again after a discussion of “the talented tenth” which he does not mention in that piece but which provides an ideological foundation for it.
After that, we read the “Letter from Eight Alabama Clergymen” watched a documentary on Birmingham and the Children’s March, and then read “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
They were all part of a lesson on persuasive writing, forming an argument, and rhetorical analysis, but I like to work as much history as possible into my lessons.
Delighted to hear it! It is heartening in this climate to know that there are teachers like you out there making a difference.
Yup, but we’ve always gotta be careful. One call from a disgruntled parent, and we’re out and blackballed.
It’s interesting that you say that, because I think we have a perception that one of the problems with higher education is that parents are ignorant about the leftist indoctrination taking place in the classroom. But you seem to be suggesting that, at least for some parents, the opposite is the case: that they don’t want their children to be exposed to ideas that might explode their preconceptions (much less the entire leftist narrative). Is that what you mean?
A blog post about your experience from the sapping trenches would be interesting.
I am teaching at a high school right now. When I taught in college, it wasn’t the parents who were the issue (because of FERPA, they really couldn’t be told anything about what went on in the classroom). The students themselves, by then adults, would crusade to get a professor fired for one non-progressive comment. It’s why I banned all recording and personal computer use in my classroom until I had some students who got “record lectures” and “take notes on a computer” added to their academic accommodations, and then I had to permit them.
I wouldn’t expect much pushback from the parents of college students, even if they knew. Remember, most parents of college students are now the older end of the “Millennial” generation, and they’ve (for the most part) been completely indoctrinated themselves.
They might disagree with their child’s taking of drastic antifa-style action to silence conservatives, but only because it could lead to them getting hurt or in trouble, not because they themselves disagree with the sentiment. I went through college (the first time — I did three graduate degrees afterward) in the late 90s, and the enforcement of Leftist orthodoxy and elimination of conservative thought was already a fait accompli then!
The end game is to have no end, as far as the people stoking these tensions. They benefit from it. It is to have institutionalized grievance. And at that point, we will demonstrably have institutionalized racism.
Don’t forget that racism is an industry…all of them are…money to be made keeping it stoked…