Shelby Steele and the Origins of White Guilt
The program introduces a deep dive into the concepts of white privilege, white guilt, and white supremacy. Author and Stanford University fellow Shelby Steele is introduced as a primary source, specifically his book "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era." The discussion establishes that these three terms are intrinsically linked within a social system.
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00:05 Mo Facts with Adam Curry for October 21st, 2019. This is episode number 12. And this morning something strange happened. At 7:31 a.m., I got a text message from my partner in crime who said, Hey, man, let's talk about the title today, what we're going to be doing. Good morning, Mo. How are you? How you doing, sir? I'm doing well. Yeah, so I really appreciated your call. You said, Okay, man, we're going for the mother load. This is the big one. Just want to let you know. Don't want you to be blindsided now. So we're going for the big one here. Yes, the big one is
00:48 white privilege. Nice. White guilt and white supremacy. Oh, it's the trifecta. It's the trifecta. Very nice. Yes. You can't discuss one without the other. That's right. That's right. This is something that I've been very interested in. I've posited my own theories about not so much about the origin of white guilt, but what white guilt has done to wokeness, or perhaps I would say created wokeness. And it's very interesting to me. And I am excited to hear what you've got to roll out for us. So this start, oh, we got a lot of clips today, so I want to jump right in.
01:28 So this started with a DM you sent me from a New York Times article talking about the effects of white guilt on this 2020 election. So I was going to do this last week, but the NBA in China. We had to get it on then. And by the way, we finished that show just before LeBron James came out with his whole like, well, you know, it could have hurt someone financially. So that was, we didn't get it in that show, but it was interesting how it unfolded. It was very interesting how it unfolded. And one thing I didn't notice that came up was
02:10 shut up and dribble, white supremacy, or any other him cows howling to the powers that be. No, exactly. So that goes to show you people pick and choose when they want to use these terms. So what we're going to talk about today is white guilt. And to talk about white guilt, we have to go back. We always have to go back to the root of these things. So I found it on the root of white guilt is white supremacy. For the people that don't know, I found an interesting, it was a, what do you want to call it?
02:54 A speaking engagement by Mr. Shelby Steele. Okay. Are you familiar with Mr. Shelby Steele, sir? No, I don't think so. All right. So Shelby Steele, he's a conservative. I have to say that. He's an author and a senior fellow at Stanford University. And he wrote the book on white guilt, the actual book on white guilt. Is the book called White Guilt? Yes. Okay. All right. So he was given a speech, and the speech that he gave or speaking engagement, speaking engagement that he gave is going to be the backdrop of this whole show. So we're going to go in and out of that speaking engagement and then have supplemental clips to what he's saying.
