
White Guilt
by Shelby Steele
ISBN: 0060578629
Publication Date: 2006-05-02
In
1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were
acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty
years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with
murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against him, went free after his
attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. Clearly, a sea change had
taken place in American culture, but how had it happened? In this
important new work, distinguished race relations scholar Shelby Steele
argues that the age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white
guilt -- and neither has been good for African Americans. As the
civil rights victories...