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Barack Obama’s Post-Racial Delusion
La Shawn Barber's Corner — ... Author Shelby Steele, with whom I shared a discussion panel several years ago, writes about Barack Obama’s delusional “post-racial promise.” ...

Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — ... The 48 hours since the election of Barack Obama have been unkind. Friends once thought sensible recount how they burst into tears, or felt proud of America for the first time in eight years, or stood in awe of this historic moment. There is something to the last: it is historic that, as Shelby Steele writes, “For the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader.” Steele’s history is not entirely correct – I would argue that the ...

Obamanation: A Small Collection Of Wise Comments
Discriminations — Following are some almost randomly collected comments on Obama’s election that I found of interest. You may want to check this post periodically, if this post interests you, since I’ll probably be adding to it as new pithy, or whatever, comments pop up. Shelby Steele Obama's special charisma — since his famous 2004 convention speech — always came much more from the racial idealism he embodied than from his political ideas.... His talent was to project an idealized vision of a post-racial America -- and then to have that vision define ...

The UK and the US: Same Revolution, Different Consequences?
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — ... But, while Obama may well have played the race card with sleight of hand, by presenting himself as the embodiment of the US electorate’s hope for a post-racial America, as Shelby Steele has said in the LA Times, this doesn’t mean that the US is fated to become mired in the racialism that plagues the UK. Shelby himself wonders whether Obama’s election might not, “infuse black America with a new American nationalism,” and there is some anecdotal evidence of change ...

Post-Racial My Black Ass
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... a belief - erroneous - that Obama “promised" a post-racial society/presidency. Obama had the “promise" of a post-racial candidate.  His “post-racial presidency” allegedly irked some black people, despite none of those people saying or referencing “post-racial”.  Where it is admitted that “post-racial” was a phrase applied to Obama’s candidacy rather than generated through it, that idea was forgotten as soon as it provided a new narrative for Obama’s failures.  ...