Thursday, March 16, 2006

Shelby's Back

Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America, is interviewed by The American Enterprise magazine. An excerpt:

The great promise of the United States of America lies in the wonderful interplay between individual freedom and individual responsibility. That’s the secret of our greatness; it always has been, and it always will be.


That’s why I hate to see identity politics come in, because then we’re evaluated on the color of our skin, or the group we’re supposed to belong to. If America loses that, then we’re in trouble.

Read the rest here.

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