Why do people keep paying Shelby Steele's crazy and outdated notions of race and caste.Author and professional Republican sellout Shelby Steele wrote a book entitled, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.
The whitest man in America, conservative columnist George Will wrote a review on Steele's book in the Washington Post last Novemeber. Will says that Steele's "argument is ultimately unconvincing because he fundamentally misreads Barack Obama. Nevertheless, so fecund is Steele's mind, he illuminates the racial landscape that Obama might transform."
George Will continues by stating, "Obama has chosen to resolve his ambiguous racial identity by embracing the social determinism and identity politics of post-'60s black dogmas. Hence he is a "bound man." He is "bound against himself" because he has fit himself into the world by often taking his experience out of account.'"
"...Steele radically misreads Obama, missing his emancipation from those perversities. Obama seems to understand America's race fatigue, the unbearable boredom occasioned by today's stale politics generally and by the perfunctory theatrics of race especially."
Mr. Will concludes by asserting, that "So far, Obama is the Fred Astaire of politics -- graceful and elegant, with a surface so pleasing to the eye that it seems mistaken, even greedy, to demand depth."
Here's a clip of Steele making an historic fool out of himself:
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