Shelby Steele, an acclaimed writer, has long argued that systemic racism is more of a strategy than a truth, and that black Americans' universal oppression is largely over. However, the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shook the country to its core. During Steele's investigation into Ferguson, America was rocked once more by the brutal killing of George Floyd. Didn't these murders, and a long list of others like them, put Steele's argument to rest?
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Shelby Steele, an acclaimed writer, has long argued that systemic racism is more of a strategy than a truth, and that black Americans' universal oppression is largely over. However, the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shook the country to its core. During Steele's investigation into Ferguson, America was rocked once more by the brutal killing of George Floyd. Didn't these murders, and a long list of others like them, put Steele's argument to rest?
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