The corruption of “results”-oriented racial reform is that it separates racial reform from all accountability to the actual development of excellence and merit in black Americans.” — White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele

“To be a proud and militant black after the sixties, you screamed black power in order to induce the application of white power. And you lived by an ethic that still sees full responsibility as oppression, if not racism, when applied to blacks.”
— White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele

“…since the sixties, black leaders have made one overriding argument: that blacks cannot achieve equality without white America taking primary responsibility for it.” — White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele