Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I usually don't agree with Shelby Steele, but he may have been slightly on to something with his analysis of Barack Obama. Watch the Entire Segment from his C-Span Book Reading and Question & Answer for "A Bound Man".
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Or at least this one. Chris Bodenner nods approvingly toward Shelby Steele (though whacking him over his support of McCain) and wonders why Steele is so often dismissed by liberals. I can only speak for myself. In Aspen, I watched...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
by Chris Bodenner The inimitable Shelby Steele had a great op-ed in the WSJ this week. In a sort of political eulogy for Jesse Jackson, Steele goes beyond the "Jesse is jealous" argument and delves into the profound generational gap...
Tammy Bruce (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The more B. Hussein is exposed as the Race Monger he is, the better. Discriminations has the scoop.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
SHELBY Steele on why Jesse Jackson wants to castrate Barack Obama: Mr. Jackson was always a challenger. He confronted American institutions (especially wealthy corporations) with the shame of America’s racist past and demanded redress… Mr. Obama’s great political ingenuity was very simple: to trade moral leverage for gratitude. Give up moral leverage over whites, refuse to [...]
The Hedgehog Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Shelby Steele crystallizes the Obama strategy : [Obama's campaign is more cultural than political. He sells himself more as a cultural breakthrough than as a candidate for office. To be a projection screen for the cultural aspirations of both blacks and whites one must be an invisible man politically. Real world politics, in their mundanity, interrupt cultural projections. And so Mr....
Discriminations (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In the Wall Street Journal today Shelby Steele explains why and how Obama “is the nullification of Jesse Jackson — the anti-Jackson.” Mr. Jackson was always a challenger. He confronted American institutions (especially wealthy corporations) with the shame of America’s racist past and demanded redress. He could have taken up the mantle of the early Martin Luther King (he famously smeared...
Guarino (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The noted social/political commentator, Shelby Steele, has some interesting observations about one of the key reasons Obama holds so much appeal for certain Americans: Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Asserts the conservative commentator (hat tip: Notes From D.R.) : "Mr. Jackson was always a challenger. He confronted American institutions (especially wealthy corporations) with the shame of America's racist past and demanded redress. He could have taken up the mantle of the early Martin Luther King (he famously smeared himself with the great man's blood after King was shot), and argued for equality...
Chronicle of the Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
We hang on every word by Shelby Steele when it comes to the emergence of Barack Obama as a social/political phenomenon. His book A Bound Man is indispensible. And an op-ed in this morning's Wall Street Journal explicates the recent outburst against Obama by Jesse Jackson : Mr. Jackson was always a challenger. He confronted American institutions (especially wealthy corporations) with the...
Dynamist Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... apparently for most people, his election will have very good effects on the populace. (Like Shelby Steele, though, I think it says much more about the utopian hopes of white liberals than the desires of regular black folks.) He may well turn into an exemplary chief executive--I'm certainly willing to give him a go far beyond the honeymoon stage--but there's nothing to base this on...
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
This from the Federalist Patriot: Barack Obama, as Shelby Steele has written, departs from the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton brand of politics in that he is far more sophisticated and subtle in how to play on white guilt and how to intimidate. That’s new. But the liberal content and agenda is not new, and this, blacks continue [...]
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
This from the Federalist Patriot: Barack Obama, as Shelby Steele has written, departs from the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton brand of politics in that he is far more sophisticated and subtle in how to play on white guilt and how to intimidate. That’s new. But the liberal content and agenda is not new, and this, blacks continue to buy en masse. The points conservatives have been hammering...
Amazing Facts (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
“Barack Obama, as Shelby Steele has written, departs from the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton brand of politics in that he is far more sophisticated and subtle in how to play on white guilt and how to intimidate. That’s new. But the liberal content and agenda is not new, and this, blacks continue to buy en masse. The points conservatives have been hammering home for the last 20 years have not...
Sibby Online (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Bob Ellis has the latest from Star Parker that really puts forward an interesting point regarding Barack Obama’s black politics: It's not like black conservatives have nothing to say here. Hoover Institute scholar Shelby Steele wrote a book about Obama....
