WHITE GUILT: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, O.J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. Steele argues here that the age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt--and neither has been good for African Americans.