Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele says he is very hopeful about the future of race relations in America.

“Oh, I feel very hopeful. I believe most people want to be positive in life and find meaning and so forth”

The Megyn Kelly Show: How the Media Shapes the Cornell Lie, with Matt Taibbi, and the Harms of "White Guilt," with Eli and Shelby Steele | Ep. 1414 (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:41:55

Shelby Steele says Jesse Jackson was a brilliant man who chose to pursue power through the idea of moral authority.

“But instead, he was groveling for power. the corrupt ideas, driven by the corrupt idea of moral authority”

The Megyn Kelly Show: How the Media Shapes the Cornell Lie, with Matt Taibbi, and the Harms of "White Guilt," with Eli and Shelby Steele | Ep. 1414 (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:15:58

Shelby Steele argues that race-based remedies validate race as an inborn essence that sets people against each other.

“The problem with it is that it validates race as an essentialism. It's something you're born with”

The Megyn Kelly Show: How the Media Shapes the Cornell Lie, with Matt Taibbi, and the Harms of "White Guilt," with Eli and Shelby Steele | Ep. 1414 (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:49

Shelby Steele argues that his college president capitulated out of collective guilt, showing white guilt and black power are the same.

“This is why white guilt is quite literally the same thing as black power”

The Megyn Kelly Show: How the Media Shapes the Cornell Lie, with Matt Taibbi, and the Harms of "White Guilt," with Eli and Shelby Steele | Ep. 1414 (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:02:35

Shelby Steele argues Johnnie Cochran bet that the court cared more about appearing free of racial bias than about truth.

“He knew the court, an American institution in the age of white guilt, was more concerned with its own moral authority than truth”

The Megyn Kelly Show: How the Media Shapes the Cornell Lie, with Matt Taibbi, and the Harms of "White Guilt," with Eli and Shelby Steele | Ep. 1414 (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:19:55

Shelby Steele cites a Claremont Institute estimate that BLM and related groups collected $82.9 billion, calling it a grift.

“Black Lives Matter and its manifold extensions engineered one of the most successful grifts in American history to the tune of $82.9 billion”

The Megyn Kelly Show: How the Media Shapes the Cornell Lie, with Matt Taibbi, and the Harms of "White Guilt," with Eli and Shelby Steele | Ep. 1414 (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:29