Comments on: Introducing The Uncle Ruckus Award

By: kalagenesis

kalagenesis — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:33:28 +0000

You are 100% correct very good!

By: kalagenesis

kalagenesis — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:33:28 +0000

You are 100% correct very good!

By: laura

laura — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:45:49 +0000

No, Steele is not Uncle Ruckus. Steele is a tragic mulatto –he is Peola. He is biracial He is cursed because of his black blood. He is bounded to his race. For him he can not claim his whiteness to be a part of the superior race.

By: Nita

Nita — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:11:51 +0000

That's a unique way of putting that, RonnieB. What you and D said bears thinking about, more deeply, together.

By: Nita

Nita — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:10:29 +0000

i did not know that. clicked google, he's a couple genes in the face away from running away and ernestly claiming to be mexican or italian. i almost feel bad for him. and then i read this over at google:

Chicago Tribune, reviewed Steele's book[5] and disagreed with his analysis of Obama noting that:

"[as] I read his essay, I found myself thinking that Steele was trapped in a time warp, that his knowledge of the currents of thought and attitude among black people stopped sometime around 1990. Less charitably, I found myself thinking that the egregious Al Sharpton is not the only one with an investment in a static view of American race relations....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 [Steele] encountered in the ’60s might no longer prevail, that Barack Obama’s mixed-race experience might actually be different than Shelby Steele’s."[5]

and where Steele is coming from makes a little more sense, now (and off topic, I like the bonus smack against Al Sharpton).

By: Nita

Nita — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:01:28 +0000

oh my god… thank you guys for the laughs this weekend. what was shelby's real intent, again, since it obviously came out wrong. right?

By: On this Independence Day… « Uppity Negro Network

On this Independence Day… « Uppity Negro Network — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:35:23 +0000

[...] despite this, Shelby Steele allegedly was quoted as saying that “[w]hite Americans have made more moral progress in the last forty years than any people in [...]

By: Stupidest Ever Quotation of the Day | A Slant Truth

Stupidest Ever Quotation of the Day | A Slant Truth — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:32:05 +0000

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By: D.

D. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:50:04 +0000

Fear not, msmartin, I'm just not that into you either.

:-)

By: msmartin

msmartin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:36:54 +0000

And that's all folks!

By: msmartin

msmartin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:36:13 +0000

Shelby Steele has a white mother. I wonder exactly what she taught him growing up.

By: msmartin

msmartin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:29:16 +0000

There is no appropriate person or manner to suggest that whites show more morality by being less racist. No congratulations are in order and you continue to amaze with you ineptness.

You misspeled eloquently.

By: msmartin

msmartin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:22:07 +0000

I understood you perfectly. My point is that it takes great morality and strenghth to ignore what has been done to minorities even more so than the whites you claim are mending the racists ways.

By: jelana

jelana — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:08:41 +0000

In truth, they have not actually improved. In the last 40 years, SOME of the hardcore racists have simply died.

By: PTCruiser

PTCruiser — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:54:50 +0000

Folks, we have to understand that Shelby Steele is including himself in that category. He is thinking about his children who have a white mother and who will probably have non-black spouses if they marry. His comment is not about us and is not directed toward us. He is thinking about their future and the future of his non-black grandchildren. Steele, in effect, is trying to pad their legacy as white Americans.

By: D.

D. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:31:05 +0000

My biggest problem with this is that an apologist like Steele shouldn't have said it.

If a Powell-or an unknown Obama-would've said it, it would have been alright. You might not have agreed, but would have seen what he was trying to say. Cause they would have said it better, more elequently.

But from this dude? Only thing that would make it worse is if David Duke said it.

By: RonnieB

RonnieB — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:21:43 +0000

I understand what you're saying, D.

But that's like complimenting ex-child rapists for
finally having a normal sex life.

By: evita

evita — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:12:28 +0000

Can't believe I'm going to say this. D- I see where you are going with this.

Problem for me is when he says how whites have grown he implies Blacks (and other groups ) haven't made the same progress with racial understanding.

The moral part is seeing the effects of racism as hurtful to our entire country... which I have to say most whites don't see quite yet.

So I would say that there have been strides within the last 40 years towards racial understanding. Not saying we've arrived, but there is growth.

Shelby Steele however is one dancing, smiling, happy to please a white man mf.

Respect, D.

By: afroacademic

afroacademic — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:15:18 +0000

It has been a long time since I've seen such an example of internalized racism. Sad.
May the mother embrace his soul and the son grant him peace in this age.

By: DoctorRoger

DoctorRoger — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:49:38 +0000

Wow. I tried to cut him a *little* slack on “Content of Our Character”, but THAT is just plain whack. The “history of the human condition”? Really? I'd love to say that–but as long as there's a White citizens' Council, Christian Identity Movement, and Fox News, I think that Steele's assertions are just a *tad* off base.