Acclaimed writer, Shelby Steele, has long argued that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth, and that the universal oppression of black Americans is largely over with. But the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri by a white policeman shook the nation to its core. During Steele�s investigation of Ferguson, America was once again rocked by the brutal killing of George Floyd. Didn�t these killings, and the long list of others like them, put the lie to Steele�s argument?