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WHERE SHELBY STEELE EXPLAINS
WHY SOME BLACK PEOPLE

LIKE TO PLAY THE ROLL OF VICTIMS
AND WHY IT IS SO DETRIMENTAL

THE THEMSELVES

AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

 

((Taken from an interview with Shelby Steele by Mark Levine on June 8, 2020. Mr. Steele is a Civil Rights Leader, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of the book "White Guilt.)

 

 Mr Steele asserts that Blacks should take more responsibility for their circumstance and condition in America today. He says Blacks should be asked are you "carrying your own weight. You’re gonna go have a fit and a tantrum and demonstrate, [but] are you teaching your child to read? Are you making sure that the school down the street actually educates your child? Are you becoming educated and following a dream in life and making things happen for yourself? Or are you saying, I’m a victim, and I’m owed, and the entitlement is inadequate? I need more, and after all, you whites, you know racism has been here for four centuries with slavery and so forth,
so it’s time for you to give to me."

 

He goes on to state, " the truth of the matter is blacks have never been less oppressed than they are today. Opportunity is around every corner. In all of this, no one ever stops to say, well, you’re unhappy with where minorities are at in American life, and blacks continue to be at the bottom of most socioeconomic measures. You’re unhappy about that. Well, why don’t you take some responsibility for that?"

 

Mr. Steele points out that some Black people
like to play the role of "Victims" He notes.
"It seems to me that in many ways it’s about power. In order to pursue power as they do, you have to have victims. Wow, the excitement that creates on the Left. It validates their claims that America is a wretched country, and they must get their recourse. It feeds this old model of operation that we’ve developed, that America is guilty of racism, guilty of this sin, and has been for 400 years, and minorities are victims who are entitled."

 

Mr. Steele suggests that by playing

the role of the victim and expecting White people

 and the government to solve the problems of Black people is causing great harm. He maintains that it would be better to have increased expectations for Black people to deal with thier community problems themselves..

 

Mr. Steele says that, "We (Black People)  have allowed ourselves to be enabled in avoiding our real problems by a guilty white society. It keeps using us and exploiting us as victims. If you really care about how minorities do, why don’t you ask them to do it? Why don’t you ask them to drop the pretense?"

 

He states that, "Blacks during the ’50s took a lot of responsibility for their lives, because the government didn’t. My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third-grade education from the South. What civil rights bill is going to replace that?
That value system?"

 

Mr. Steele affirms that, "We have let this sort of guilty society, and our grievance industry, put us in this impossible situation where we are a permanent underclass. Before the ’60s, there was no black underclass. That’s a new phenomenon."