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18 Mar 2008 11:47 am
Don Wycliff On Shelby Steele On Obama
Well worth a read:
It apparently never occurs to Steele that for
a man a generation younger than himself the terms of blackness might be
different, that the “totalitarian” demands he encountered in the ’60s
might no longer prevail, that Barack Obama’s mixed-race experience
might actually be different than Shelby Steele’s.
Steele sounds in this book like a man whose
head is full of a music that he alone can hear. It never did become
clear to me what he means by the term “a bound man.” But it certainly
seems that if anyone is bound, it is Steele himself. He is bound to a
set of ideas and theories that he formulated in reaction to his
experiences in the 1960s. They once sounded like wisdom, but today they
tinkle suspiciously like the bells on a fool’s cap.
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