"Shelby and Eli Steele’s New Film Goes Straight at the White-Guilt Grifters"

‘White Guilt’ argues that racial blame has become a profitable business for activists, consultants, and universities hungry for power.

Hi all,

The press is starting to come in for our new documentary, “White Guilt.”

Here are the excerpts from two articles:

Christian Toto in Hollywood In Toto wrote:

The documentary tracks recent American history from Shelby Steele’s perspective. He began as a black militant but reassessed his cultural perspective over time.

Now, he’s warning us what could be next if we ignore what White Guilt can do to a healthy society.

”Should the civilization that made the individual possible finally collapse, the backward man will still be congratulating himself before the darkness falls on him, too,' Shelby Steele warns in the trailer.

The director (Eli Steele) shared his philosophy behind the film via his Substack platform.

”White guilt is the most important story no one is telling honestly. Not Marxism. Not woke ideology. Not suicidal empathy. Those are symptoms. White guilt is the disease that allows these other ideologies and behaviors to take hold. It’s the grease that makes all of it possible, and until we name it clearly, we have no chance of reversing it.”

And then Owen Anderson (his recent podcast with me is worth a listen) wrote in The Blaze:

Are you guilty? That depends. Are you white? Then yes, you are guilty. But whiteness is no longer the only offense. Believe in God? Believe Christ saves sinners? Believe in objective morality, the rule of law, or marriage between one man and one woman? Then skin color hardly matters. You are guilty anyway.

Guilty of what? Guilty of the sins of history, the inequities of the present, and whatever new offense the racial racketeers invent tomorrow. At least that is what grifters like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo have spent years selling to America, often for staggering sums underwritten by universities eager to flatter the ideology. Arizona State University, where I teach, has offered classes on the problem of whiteness. ASU’s Barrett Honors College teaches the evils of settler colonialism…

Much of the left’s social justice industry runs on a simple formula: Manufacture guilt, divide people by race, promise absolution, then collect money, influence, and institutional power. Sell moral panic to well-intentioned Americans, then invoice them for redemption.

Want to end racism? Write a check. Sign the DEI pledge. Sit through the seminar. Keep your head down while the consultants explain that your skin makes you complicit and your silence proves your guilt.

The strategy stays simple. Divide humanity into categories. Teach each group to resent the others. Tell people that the brokenness of the world is not a permanent feature of fallen life but the fault of their neighbors. Then arrive as the enlightened manager who can fix it all, for a fee. That formula has wrecked poorer countries for generations. Now left-wing elites have imported it into American life, dressed it up in therapeutic language, and sold it as virtue.

Anyone who has spent time around a university classroom knows the script. A professor begins with a banal truth: The world is filled with injustice. The class nods. Then comes the poisonous turn: Would you like to know who is to blame? Look around the room. Identify the oppressor. Assign the guilt. Require ritual silence from some students and ritual confession from others. Repackage humiliation as education.

And you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, are footing the bill for Struggle Session 101.

We have our very first screening tomorrow at Arizona State University. If you’re in the area, here are the details.

More soon,

Eli