Shelby Steele | Why Blacks Must Reject the Victimhood Narrative | Ep. 63

January 19, 2026 00:54:34
Shelby Steele | Why Blacks Must Reject the Victimhood Narrative | Ep. 63
The Independent with Scott Atlas
Shelby Steele | Why Blacks Must Reject the Victimhood Narrative | Ep. 63

Jan 19 2026 | 00:54:34

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Show Notes

Scott welcomes renowned author and scholar Shelby Steele. Steele is an expert on race relations and race-based civil rights policies in America He's formerly the Robert and Marianne Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He's received numerous honors and awards for his work, including the Bradley Prize, the National Humanities Medal, an Emmy Award, and the National Book Critic Circle Award in 1990. Perhaps he's best known for his 2006 book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. They have a provocative conversation about the polarizing issue of race relations.

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