Ta-Nehisi Coates and Shelby Steele are debating reparations on This Week...Link added

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Wait :jawalrus:

The last sentence that Shelby Steele says is exactly what half of this board says all the time:
- racism is immovable
- help from gov't results in dependency
- [racism] is what it is...it won't go away
- we need to go about the business of making our own lives as good as we can
 

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Reminds me of when I hear Charles Blow talk
I mean literally "glossy", as in his lips, who the hell does his makeup and leaves him looking like a 16 yo girl discovering her feminine guile
there has to be a middle ground dry and super-shine:patrice:
 

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steele actually seems like he is either really sleepy or age is taking a serious toll on him.

in a vacuum, steele simply repeated conservative talking points, but taken as a rebuttal to coates, he was way off the mark. this was utterly useless, and george dropped the ball
 

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steele actually seems like he is either really sleepy or age is taking a serious toll on him.

in a vacuum, steele simply repeated conservative talking points, but taken as a rebuttal to coates, he was way off the mark. this was utterly useless, and george dropped the ball
that does not appear to be the natural degradation of age, especially for an "intellectual" who is supposed to enjoy a life of academic stimulation
Look at Chomski's spry and agile mental faculties at his late age for example
this Steele guy reeks of early Alzheimer
 

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It's not the role of government to do social engineering.

If you want to close the wealth gap, the best thing for black people to do is focus on education. You also need to address the breakdown of the black family. Those are probably the two biggest impediments to the success of black people in America.

Would you support free education for all descendants of slaves?
 
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