Shelby Steele, a well-known author, has long argued that systemic racism is a strategy rather than a fact, and that black Americans' universal oppression is largely over. But the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shook the country to its core. The brutal killing of George Floyd rocked America once more during Steele's investigation of Ferguson. Didn't these murders, along with a long list of others, put Steele's argument to rest?
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Shelby Steele, a well-known author, has long argued that systemic racism is a strategy rather than a fact, and that black Americans' universal oppression is largely over. But the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shook the country to its core. The brutal killing of George Floyd rocked America once more during Steele's investigation of Ferguson. Didn't these murders, along with a long list of others, put Steele's argument to rest?
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