Shelby Steele On The Causes And Depiction Of Racism In America Today

Shelby Steele joined host Ben Domenech to discuss the state of the nation and the underlying historical causes into modern tensions. Steele is a renowned author, expert, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution specializing in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.

Steele argued that today's racial tensions are caused by an outgrowth of a change in racial understanding from the 1960s. The '60s, he said, produced a "redemptive liberalism" in an effort to rid America of past experiences of racism, particularly on the left. The recent trend of corporations publicly declaring their support of Black Lives Matter, which reveals the incessant desire to be innocent of the past.