Tuesday, March 31, 2015

AmRen - Jared Taylor Review on Shelby Steele's 'Shame' : What Explains the Black-White Divide? - "This book, like so many others, falls apart logically because it refuses to face up to race differences in ability."


What Explains the Black-White Divide?

Shame
A black conservative’s diagnosis.
Shelby Steele, Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized the Country, Basic Books, 2015, $25.99, 198 pp.
Every few years we can count on Shelby Steele for a thoughtful analysis of the American dilemma, and Shame, his latest offering, does not disappoint. Dr. Steele, who has been a Hoover Institution fellow since 1994, is one of that distinguished handful of blacks who despise the victim identity, and who insist that blacks must rise or fall according to their merits. He is also a keen observer of whites–having a white mother and a white wife probably helps–and ruthlessly dissects their motives. ...