Pastor Corey Brooks and Shelby Steele discussed how black Americans can continue to develop and move forward.
"It's a blessing to have you with us," the pastor said warmly."Everyone knows that I love Thomas Sowell and I love Shelby Steele. There's not a moment that I don’t try to tell people about my affection for both of you. You lived through the ‘60s. What was the moment that you woke up to the realities of post-’60s liberalism, which many call the Great Society programs?""I suppose it happened specifically in the early 1970s.
"In fact, what we did was take our own fate – which we had just won – [and] put it in the hands of other people," Steele said."And that's where I think we made a mistake." "Didn't mean racism was gone, but it meant that opportunity was everywhere. And we have, I believe, been literally stalked by opportunity since the '60s. Everywhere in American life, people are trying to give us possibilities and opportunities to develop.
"I feel exactly the same way. I have not changed my values since I was a little boy, and my parents were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and so forth," Steele answered."Black politics [today] is designed [for] no other purpose than to put our fate in other people's hands.
"Absolutely. To me, that's the test of everything at this point. It should be common knowledge within black America that the government of the United States is not our way out. Our way out is ourselves. The government must enforce the rights and so forth in a democratic society that [are] due [to] all people. But the government can't teach your 2-year-old child to read, your 3-year-old, 4-year-old," Steele said.
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