Shelby Steele: Leftist ‘Grievance Industry’ Ignores Black Development, Pushes ‘Racial Victimization’
The left’s “grievance industry” pushes narratives of “racial victimization” in pursuit of political power, noted Shelby Steele.

The left’s “grievance industry” pushes narratives of “racial victimization” in pursuit of political power, noted Shelby Steele.
Candace Owens described hip hop artist Cardi B as a conservative who is not yet aware of her conservatism.
On Tuesday, a leftist agitator announced the time and date of a planned destruction of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC, while being cheered on by political allies.
Former President Barack Obama said he was “wildly optimistic” about America’s future given what he described as an ongoing “great awakening” related to “how we think about race in this country.”
Bishop Aubrey Shines discussed left-wing paternalism towards blacks while attributing “systemic racism” to the Democrat Party.
The “abuses of ICE” resemble “the auction block during slavery,” said Ayanna Pressley in an interview with Pod Save America.
Democrats “have to stir up fear, tears, [and] terror” by “saying that President Trump is a racist” said Dr. Alveda King.
“Nothing you are ever going to do … is going to make them stop calling you a racist,” said Sonnie Johnson, asking, “Why do we care?”
Victor Davis Hanson said Democrats’ push for “reparations” is rooted in their fear that President Donald Trump is “making inroads” with black voters.
“Would Chuck Schumer like to see fewer Jews in the judiciary so that the judiciary looked like the American population?” asked Dennis Prager on Friday’s edition of his eponymous radio show.
Democrats and the broader left have “targeted the white male … for extinction,” said Michael Savage, pointing to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s recent use of an anecdote involving her grandson to push racial politics.
“Cultural genocide [is] being promulgated against Caucasians by Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democrat-Hollywood establishment,” said Michael Savage on Monday, responding to Pelosi’s recent rebranding of Donald Trump’s campaign slogan to “Make America White Again.”
Many of the 300 graduates of Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college, turned their backs on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as she gave her first commencement address since assuming her post.
A shocking video of a Muslim man racially abusing and physically assaulting a white man and woman has caused outrage online, whilst going largely unreported in the mainstream media.
A coalition of black pastors is unveiling its national agenda and addressing what it calls “the current sabotage that is inspiring civil unrest against the new president.”
Students at Lebanon Valley College (LVC) in Pennsylvania are demanding Lynch Memorial Hall on campus be renamed, due to the potential traces of racism associated with the word “lynch.”
University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.
A white University of Kansas (KU) communications professor is on leave, after students filed discrimination complaints against her because she used the n-word in class to describe an incident that reportedly occurred on the University of Missouri campus.
In the wake of student protests inspired by Black Lives Matter, the University of Missouri’s image is apparently suffering to the extent that the school has hired a lobbyist as state lawmakers will be closely scrutinizing its funding next year.
Dartmouth College’s vice provost for student affairs is attempting to comfort the raucous “Black Lives Matter” activists who are now facing national criticism for unleashing a disruptive, hostile, obscenity-strewn tirade on students studying in the school’s library.
The Dartmouth Review reports that on Thursday, about 150 “black-clad” Black Lives Matter protesters pushed and shoved students and hurled racial epithets at them as they surged through doors of study spaces, harassing students studying for exams and shouting obscenities at them.
Canada’s most widely read newspaper, The Toronto Star, is lamenting the lack of racial crime statistics aggregated by various levels of government. Over two decades ago, the newspaper was instrumental in facilitating outrage from the left over a revelation that police in Toronto were collecting statistics about race and crime.