Snob fact: For Senate Michael Steele was endorsed by Mike Tyson and Don King. Tyson is the ex-husband of Steele's sister. All this week, and all the next, The Black Snob is taking a look at the views of black conservatives on Barack Obama. We’re examining who likes him, who doesn’t. Who will vote for him and who won’t. So far we’ve looked at the views of Amy Holmes , Condoleezza Rice , Alan Keyes , Colin Powell , Armstrong Williams and more. Republican Michael Steele was at one point the...Read Full Story
Conservative author Shelby Steele. Photo from Canada's National Post. This is part of a black conservatives on Obama series at The Black Snob. Previous entries were done on Amy Holmes , Condoleezza Rice , and Ward Connerly . Shelby Steele has always been fascinating to me. On one hand I find his views interesting . On the other hand I feel like his views on race are severely stunted. Like his opinions on anti-intellectualism in black culture. I don’t think black people have cornered the...Read Full Story
Almost two months ago I wrote a lengthy series on black conservatives and Barack Obama's candidacy. I wondered if the lure of a historic presidency would supersede their diverging political beliefs. If it would cause black politicos to put their differences aside and chose racial solidarity in the face of historic adversity over their hard-won, independent beliefs. Or would the desire to see a black president be so strong that it would out-weigh their own political ideologies? For some it...Read Full Story
I’ve been wondering what Shelby Steele , a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, would say next about President Obama. A conservative, Steele has written several good books about race in America. As a man of mixed race in the same way as Obama, Steele has a unique vantage point from which to talk about Obama’s promise and how he does his job.
Steele has an article out in the WSJ . And, as usual, it is worth reading in its entirety. I’ll include a few bits here. Steele begins by...Read Full Story
Conservative author Shelby Steele in the Washington Post opinion section tackled the ever-controversial topic of affirmative action and persistent racial inequality in the article “Affirmative Action Is Just a Distraction.” In a nutshell, he argues that persistent racial inequality today between whites and African Americans is primarily a result of black underdevelopment rather than racism. Today's "black" problem is underdevelopment, not discrimination. Success in modernity will demand...Read Full Story
The conservative commentator pens an op-ed for Time magazine: "I believe that freedom of the individual — as opposed to good works or 'social justice' — is by far the highest goal any society can strive for. I became a conservative precisely to deal with my fate as a black American born into a segregated society. Racism had deprived me of individual freedom as I grew up in segregated America. But then as segregation faded there followed a...
Shelby Steele Shelby Steele, Robert J and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, member of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. The following is excerpted from a speech delivered September 22, 2011 in New York City at the conference "The Perils of Global Intolerance: The UN and Durban III," sponsored by the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the Hudson Institute.The Arab-Israeli...
Shelby Steele is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and is the author of “A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win”. he also writes for major newspapers about Barack Obama and race relations.
Shelby Steele (born 1946 , Chicago ) is an American author , columnist , documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University ...
HULIQ.com - Shelby Steele has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on how much race plays a major roll in Obama’s popularity. Steele has a great book on this topic titled “White Guilt