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...merely an intellectual hors d'oeuvres. The real meat of the evening came with the presentation of Steele's theories. The crux of the argument was that: 1) White Americans live with perpetual guilt about their history as oppressors during the Antebellum period; 2) African-Americans exploit these latent feelings by claiming that white oppression is the primary social factor in explaining their lack of development; 3) Taken together points one and two lead to the development of policies of preference (affirmative action); 4) The keys to increased development for African-Americans are increased educational commitment and an honest assessment...
These arguments have substantial room for improvement. It is difficult to believe that the majority of white Americans have latent guilt feelings about their past collective experience as oppressors. As a political scientist, I find it very difficult to accept social theories based on attitudes that are not accompanied by at least some minimal survey of the population of interest. Thus, if he wants to continue to make such claims, he must role up his sleeves and get out in the field...
...preference for African-Americans is too simplistic. If this interplay of guilt and exaggeration does lead to preferential policies, then why is that so-called "affirmative action" limited to only a small percentage of the African-American population? Is Steele maintaining that only white elites suffer from this latent guilt and only African-American are masters of over-emphasis for political and economic gains? If this political culture truly exists and is as easy to exploit as he claimed, why haven't the masses of African-Americans struggling to survive mobilized to take advantage of this culture...
...speech was his claim that African-Americans needed an honest assessment of their capabilities from white Americans. It was baffling to hear an advocate of self-help doctrine offer a paternalistic relationship with whites as a crucial variable in development. Moreover, how can whites who are plagued by latent guilt break that cycle and offer African-Americans and honest assessment of their capabilities? Furthermore, the history of race relations in American society demonstrates how whites, when given the chance to assess the collective capabilities of this group, have rarely provided "an honest account." The most important document in the history...
...good doctor who treated the poor. But by night, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snare in the guise of smuggling them to freedom and coldly destroyed them and stole their valuables. The insane genocidal climate of the times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster of the night. "Juvenile Court" at 7:30 p.m. Shot in Memphis, the film records routine legal procedures and the interactions of offenders with the legal system, depicting cases that range from issues of child placement in foster homes to drug abuse to assault and armed robbery. Frederick...