Shelby Steele, an award-winning author, has long argued that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth and that the universal oppression of black Americans is essentially over. A white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed a black teenager in 2014 and the incident shook the nation. An other shocking murder occurred while Steele was conducting his work in Ferguson: George Floyd's savage death. What if all of these homicides, as well as a long list of others like them, proved Steele's point to be incorrect?
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Shelby Steele, an award-winning author, has long argued that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth and that the universal oppression of black Americans is essentially over. A white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed a black teenager in 2014 and the incident shook the nation. An other shocking murder occurred while Steele was conducting his work in Ferguson: George Floyd's savage death. What if all of these homicides, as well as a long list of others like them, proved Steele's point to be incorrect?
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