Author and filmmaker Shelby Steele said modern-day racial segregation on college campuses is not as "insidious" as slavery.
“The idea that Blacks would come on a college campus as freshmen and think of themselves as entering a foreign, dangerous terrain, and needing spaces that are just for themselves and want to segregate themselves and limit dormitories, and live just with other minorities and, and so forth,” said Steele, “so that some certain White people in that institution can say, ‘Hey, you just don't understand the struggle that it is to be black.’”
“Slavery was not that insidious,” Steele said. “It whooped me, but it didn't go in and just grab my soul.’
Steele’s comments came on the “Counter Culture” podcast with host Dan Proft.
A senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Steele is an author, columnist, and documentary filmmaker who specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.
Steele’s book, “The Content of Our Character: A New Vision for Race in America,” won the the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction in 1990. In this work, Steele delves into the complexities of race relations in the United States and offers a personal reflection on the challenges and potential solutions.
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Proft launched “Counterculture” — co-hosted by American Greatness and Restoration News — in September 2023. He also is the co-host of “Chicago’s Morning Answer” weekday mornings from 5-9 a.m. on AM 560 Chicago. A former Republican candidate for Illinois Governor, Proft attended Northwestern University and received his J.D. from Loyola University-Chicago.
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