White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era Free Audiobook Download by Shelby Steele

"White Guilt is a recent phenomenon that has as its chief goal the promotion of miscegenation and multiculturalism, the elimination of white people and the creation of an amorphous, color-blind society. White Guilt removes whiteness from the moral equation, replacing it with guilt…. The result is a whole new kind of racism"

White guilt and white guilt is the idea that whites are responsible for racism and discrimination by virtue of their skin color. This concept has been rooted deeply in the American psyche. This book explores the history of the concept, how it impacts contemporary society, and what we can do about it.

The Civil Rights era began with the desegregation of public schools. For whites, it was a time that they could finally sit back and relax with the idea that all people have equal opportunities in America. As Steele tells us, this is when whites adopted a form of white guilt as they decided to take on social justice by fighting for civil rights. This led to many problems, like over-policing and disparities in sentencing.

White Guilt is an audiobook about race that takes a deep look into the crimes of society in regards to race and how this affects the idea of white supremacy. White Guilt shares a perspective that has been missing from major discussions about race with its searing indictment of white responsibility for the moral rot afflicting America today.

The change in people's attitudes toward black Americans has been astonishing. From the founding of the country to today, white Americans had a tremendous investment in slavery and therefore the fate of blacks. The Civil War was fought to preserve the Union, not to emancipate slaves. Emancipation was not written into the Constitution until 1868. Yet by WW2, 70% of white Americans believed blacks were as good as whites.

Shelby Steele's book "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era" argues that America is suffering from a new kind of white guilt. "Some whites are still living under the illusion that they are owed something because of past injustices," he writes, "But these days blacks have so thoroughly taken over the culture of victimhood and white guilt we no longer recognize our own country." The author uses examples to illustrate how whites helped destroy their own country with ideas like affirmative action, reparation, and reverse racism.