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It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Shelby Steele

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Shelby Steele
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 1
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Journalist
Sociologist
Chicago
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