Shelby Steele on President-Elect Obama

[MyTotalRemedy]

In the other video, he bullcraps at the end about Powell. Powell doesn't have loyalty.

[MyTotalRemedy]

No. Powell is a liberal-leftist who loves Obama because they agree on so much. On The Issues also identifies his policies as liberal, since he's so scared of conservative views.

They're both terrible.

[NitajView]

As a not white person myself, I could not be more agree with Mr Steele than I could be with anyone else’s views on race.

[JimBowie1133]

"chose to be black"?? Dr. Steele must understand that in the usa a man with any African heritage is identified as black. There's no choice. No one of black heritage is ever accepted as a member of the white in-group.

[stephenabm]

Obama has proven to be an elitist / insider and has been a horrible president.

[1879gym]

: Dr Steele knows full well that Obama’s Mother would have been well received and embraced in Rev Wright’s church. Steele knows better but the truth doesn’t fit his hype. Don’t be naive listing to this nonsense.

[charlene12341234]

you should not be going around underminding Obama-He's making changes that people disdain, simply because they will die before they allow these changes to come to pass. You just want to discredit and undermind a man who is trying to change things for the better of the poor! your a jealous hater! is what u r!!

[charlene12341234]

this is an "uncle richard" if I've evr seen one. Obama is a Man of many perspectives-unlike what I can saY for most people. He dosen't have to prove one of "who he is" He's many! He's many on both sides! This is what makes him unique! He's not ONe Sided!

[MyTotalRemedy]

@charlene12341234

What have you been smoking?

[slyrollin60crip]

The only reason blacks elected obama is because we want our 40 acres, he wont get our vote in mass next time because blacks who understand what's going on want their own land, so we can live outside of the white mans laws

[uk6strings]

"'Barak Obama: The first black man in the White House' - and that's it." Wow. Why couldn't Steele have been asked that earlier in the interview? I really wish he could have expanded on that thought a little bit more!

[gkraychik]

Thanks for sharing. I think Shelby's insights into the psychology of Obama are interesting and accurate.

[jollysincere]

@gkraychik The ward connelly's and shelby Steels's of the world are the one with deep inner demons and only God's knows what else. Here is a man who openly admits to voting for a senile fool like McCain, and placing a complete idiot like Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency. Need i say more.

[Aphoresis]

@jollysincere

Well...you could have added that Barack Obama has proven that you don't need to be senile to be incompetent.

[IWubYooz]

Stopped watching at about 6 minutes.

White people didn't have to prove they were not racist. If you're not racist, you won't have to PROVE anything- It'll become self evident.

Yeah, right... "Thankful" that I'm not being "prejudged a racist". Get off my screen.

[UCBfan1]

@IWubYooz If you really believe what you say here, then you are delusional. White America has suffered from the sad sickness of white guilt for decades. The fact that you say that you stopped watching after six minutes says volumes. White Americans have had to suffer with assumptions based on the color of their skin for decades. White guilt is not the only reason white Americans voted for Obama, but it is a major factor. Especially with baby boomers.

[NewYorkCityUSA7]

@UCBfan1 LOL, white guilt has nothing to do with Obama being President. Americans voted for Obama because he was the best choice. Anyone who voted for old senile McCain and that dumb broad Palin who doesn't know her elbow from her asshole is an idiot. Why don't people who talk about race and the Presidency ever discuss how the first 43 Presidents were all white males. I know, that was all just a coincidence and had absolutely nothing to do with race.....

[HanStanwell]

@NewYorkCityUSA7 Obama was the best choice...for destroying America

[1879gym]

@HanStanwell Intellectual rubbish by a slick opportunist, who’s degreed and has an excellent authoritative disposition. Actually his intent is working even though he wrote a worthless book (which is a huge joke!), but he is making a hunger group of anger men within the popular culture feel better while profiting. At 13:20 he begins to tell you what’s in his heart and the struggle that has perverted his mind

[rjamonanthony]

Shelby Steele: "...as a black..."

Since when is black a noun?

[rjamonanthony]

Psycho-babble. Whites didn't vote for Obama to make themselves feel better, they voted for him for the same reason they vote for anyone else - they liked him better than the other guy. Simple as that.

[soverysneaky]

@rjamonanthony And now they're wishing they hadn't.

[MrAngates]

shelby you were wrong and therefore you have no credibilty!!!!!!!!

[oseijeman]

lol @ "there's no doubt about that"

[SuperTB4]

Obama got elected because people wanted change from republicans and Bush´s policies. of course, the Hoover Institute is a conservative, Libertarian think tank that has to say that the only reason why Obama won was because he is black. Just another example of the Hoover Institute´s pseudo-intellectualism.

[dirksilver]

@SuperTB4 too bad obama isn't too very much different from bush then isn't it?...keeps all the crappy policies and then enacts more on top of it! just too too bad

[SuperTB4]

America voted for Obama because they wanted change from republicans and Bush´s politics and not so whites could feel good about themselves not being racist. This video is just another pseudo-intellectual argument from rights and libertarian think tanks.

[SDS3AAPH]

it's funny how he talks about obama wooing whites when in fact actually lost the white vote (45% to 55%)

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

Obama the first half-caste biracial mixed-race president not black.

[ePhilosopher9]

why do in 2010 man hates Louisianains? I understand how Hoover hates Prattville. I understand how Auburn hates Bear Bryant. I just can't understand why that, even when 1000000000 barrels of oil wash upon Louisiana's shores, they hate us, and do not do a thing?

[jamie5690]

Shelby Steele is brilliant!

[masalapaul]

Shelby Steele is jelous of Barack Obama.

Come on Shelby,America is still racist.

[MrAngates]

@masalapaul no doubt about it......... 

[weseyedwalk]

Political correctness might be the death of America, nobody wants to get dirty so it won't get fixed.

[manoman0]

@pmack169 - Well, they voted the guy promising the most. Isn't that understandable?

[manoman0]

So bloody what if Barack is black or (more precisely: half black)? He spends money he doesn't have and does not belong to him which means he has to take it from you and tax others now and in the future. THAT'S what people don't like. He (Barack) could care less about skin colour when it comes to bail out all his cronies at Wall Street. And people still argue over the skin colour isssue? No wonder they don't get the real issue (yet).

[SuperGuitarman69]

The truth is were strangled in political correctness. This is one side of the argument but it is compelling to say the least. I think there is shreds of proof in his point. And just because Obama was a Harvard Law Professor doesn't make him smarter than someone who graduated from a state university of someone with simple common sense.

[jeromemilton]

This sounds like he is talkin bout Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali when talkin bout Armstrong and Davis.

[shieldsff]

All the so-called complex sociological analysis aside,Steels's position boils down the argument Obama is elected because he's black-what a farce ! Obama is a columbia & Harvard Law School grad- all just because he's black -puleeze. He speaks of identity politics as if it is a "black invention". It's not-try reading Tim Weiss sometime- (White Like Me). Why is Mr steel so bitter. It's sad that in his own identity confusion,he embraces a right-wing political agenda ! Obama mom can come to Trinity.

[weseyedwalk]

@shieldsff YOu are a racist, you know why, because you assume that this black man has an identity problem because he doesn't act like you think a black man is supposed to act. You want to box black people into what your comfortable with them being. This man is smarter than you, btw, Obama, although graduated from Law school, doesn't actually have any experience in practicing law. He was not qualified for president at all. But because this was a cultural war, he won the election.

[Califacience]

@weseyedwalk

Define "cultural war"

[nambypamby34]

I DISAGREE! Obama is multicultural. Thats who I think he really IS. Our world is MORE connected and multicultural now then it was in the 60's. OBAMA is who he is half white/Black man raised in coultures that were neaither fully white or black and maybe mostly asian. This man has just said WHITE people are dummies!?! Lets look at his heart do you see acceptance or unresovled simmering hate toward both black and whites.

[shieldsff]

All the academic cant aside, Steels's position boils down to the argument Obama is elected because he's black-what a farce! Obama is a Columbia & Harvard Law School grad- all just because he's black -puleeze. He speaks of identity politics as if it is a "black invention". It's not-try reading Tim Weiss sometime- (White Like Me).Why is Steel so bitter? It's sad that in his own identity confusion, he ADVANCES a right-wing political agenda ! Obamas mom could come to Trinity ANYTIME

[MrLewey10]

If you think the current healthcare reforms are in any way "socialist", you are a moron. They don't even come close to the system of universal, government-run healthcare provided by my country, the UK, and the UK is in no way "Maoist Socialist".

[peteykkk]

Best thing was when we rescued blacks from Africa, where they had no shoes or clothes, let them commit crimes here and put them in the finest prisons, give them a clean bed, 3 meals a day and health care. Go to: Her Name is Ms Ann, on YOUTUBE, by Rev. James Manning. Let him tell it! blacks destroy anything they touch! Even prisons!

[JasonEA]

I too love and admire Steele...however, the invariable he's missing is that America was coping with eight years of utter, and near complete Republican incompetence. Did people need another reason to vote democrat?

[Vanidecb]

I disagree with his analysis of Barack Obama. I've read "Dreams from my Father" and it reveals a man who wants to provide the opportunities for all the impoverished. That said, in retrospect perhaps Obama is not as much of a fighter as this country needs. If the republican party wants to have a future, it should consider trying to recruit Shelby Steele to run for high office.

[johnlorican]

@Vanidecb Barack Obama wants to 'provide the opportunities for all' by literally redistributing all of the wealth in this country - and our country is reeling from his disastrous economic policies.

ANYBODY can go to college if they want to - particularly the impoverished. There are scholarships available everywhere.

[rkoliver1]

Vanidecb:

Obama said in USA Today he has no plans for African Americans. How is that for change?

[johnlorican]

I've watched this video probably ten times over the last year.

Shelby Steele is - without question - the brightest light with regards to issues of race in America today. His excellent book, 'White Guilt,' should be required reading for us all.

It honestly saddens me that this video has been viewed only 3,320 times (as of 11/4/09). It reflects the illiteracy of our society today.

[mookiepearl]

@johnlorican: Shelby Steele's analysis is lacking because he completely neglects the fact that her is perpetuating the stereotype that education, intelligence is a "white" thing. At 14:36 - 39 he contradicts his own argument by saying he is going live being himself - well that's what Barack has done. Being educated is not a "white thing" - what does that mean anyway?

[johnlorican]

@mookiepearl He doesn't say that 'intelligence is a white thing;' he, live many others, infers that a percentage of black pop culture believes that studying IS a 'white thing'...a tragedy.

[hitchwatch]

"It honestly saddens me that this video has been viewed only 3,320 times (as of 11/4/09). It reflects the illiteracy of our society today. "

Why would viewing a video have anything to do with literacy?

[johnlorican]

Why would viewing a video have anything to do with literacy?

Because the overwhelming majority of the American populace is not familiar with the refreshing perspectives of Mr. Steele - and don't bother seeking it out....and, yes, I relate that to a cultural illiteracy.

[fuhmeregan]

NOTHING to do with Obama. The election was about turning the Republicans over one's knee and giving them a very bad spanking then sent to their bedrooms. :)