Shelby Steele On President-Elect Obama

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Partner:: Hoover Institution
Location:: Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA
Event Date:: 11.11.08
Speakers:: Peter Robinson,; Shelby Steele
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Summary: Shelby Steele asserts that Barack Obama won the presidential election by successfully basing his candidacy on race, "Obama's special charisma … always came … from the racial idealism he embodied. … This was his only true political originality."

Steele holds that whites voted less for real "change" than for documentation of a change that has already occurred in race relations in America. But will four or eight years of Barack Obama free whites from the taint of racism or make them still more complicit in it? - Hoover Institution

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Peter Robinson

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits the Hoover Institution's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, "Uncommon Knowledge."

Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA.

Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994. Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations. In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Steele is the author of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era and most recently A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.

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01.: Why Obama Can't Win - Revisited

01 min 32 sec

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02.: A Tale of Two Trumpeters: Armstrong vs. Miles Davis

03 min 53 sec

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03.: Obama the Bargainer

00 min 50 sec

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04.: Obama Won his Campaign on White Guilt

01 min 31 sec

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05.: The Content of 'His' Character Mistake America Made on Cultural Symbolism

02 min 33 sec

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06.: Obama 'Chose' to Be Black

02 min 34 sec

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07.: What Obama is Hiding Under the Mask

02 min 43 sec

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08.: Race Relations During Obama Administration

01 min 20 sec

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09.: The Change We Believe in is Already Here

02 min 08 sec

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10.: Young Supporters Are Preoccupied with Race

02 min 27 sec

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11.: Obama on Affirmative Action

00 min 47 sec

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12.: Obama: A Left Wing Radical or Status Quo Democrat?

01 min 49 sec

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13.: Only a Black President Could Have Won with Socialistic Policies

03 min 02 sec

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14.: A Cultural Shift? Identity Politics

02 min 44 sec

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15.: GOP is Now a Racist Party By Default

02 min 49 sec

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16.: Can Race Be Used as a Leverage for Obama?

02 min 53 sec

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17.: Barack Obama or Martin Luther King Jr.

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Why Shelby Steele Thought Barack Obama Couldn't Win

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Shelby Steele on Obama's 'Racial Moral Authority'

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Shelby Steele: Republican Party is 'Racist by Default'

01 min 30 sec

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