Shelby Steele on Affirmative Action and Education

Shelby Steele gives his response to a question about affirmative action & education

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[dud3man6969]

I have always felt affirmative action is a form of soft racism that treats race as a disability. And it can leave the individual's abilities open to question by others even if they are supremely qualified. It can actually insight the very thing it proposes to eliminate. True equality of opportunity should only take the characteristics that actually contribute to actual performance.

[USAisAntiWhite]

Affirmative action is a way of saying that you are sorry for the person; it's a way of showing pity. I'm tired of hearing this nonsense about 400 years. I have never seen such a lazy class of people since I went to Senegal and saw real black people who worked hard and didn't expect everything to be given to them. US blacks are the pathetic and should be ashamed of themselves.

[Haseeb2]

@FuckUtube4Life2010 No, you are the moron for not understanding the meaning of what was said by the caller and also for having such simple-minded videos on your favorites list and having an obnoxious and vulger name.

[Haseeb2]

@FuckUtube4Life2010 No actually you are a bigger moron not only for your poor comprehensive skills, but by your stupid name and all of the simple-minded videos on your favorites list.

[FuckUtube4Life2010]

@Haseeb2 well then that would be the evidence that you're just as much a moron as that idiot caller.

[Haseeb2]

@FuckUtube4Life2010 It was very clear the first time I watched it.

[Haseeb2]

@USAisAntiWhite Including the president?

[FuckUtube4Life2010]

@Haseeb2 watch the video again...maybe that might clear things up for you.

[pittland44]

@Chaicoffski Blacks are like any other group of people on this planet. Some are lazy, some are law abiding, some are violent, some are honest as the day is long, just like everyone else. The problem is that affirmative action has caused a certain degree of paranoia amongst other ethnic groups. The next feature is that everyone else starts showing up with their hands out saying "what about me, if you want me to be a victim, then I'm a victim." The whole system turns everyone into prostitutes.

[pittland44]

@mcwolves71 the government would not be necessary to continue the work of advancing the cause of black people. That they would be able to stand on their own two feet and wouldn't need any help. The problem is that politicians (primarily democrats but some republicans) found that by making what were essentially stopgap programs into permanent features of the welfare legislation already enacted under LBJ (which were an absolute disaster) then what was meant to be a leg up became perverse and warpd