Nasty Nazi?

The media is working up a sweat trying to brand Donald Trump's new Chief Strategic Adviser, Steve Bannon, as a racist, anti-semite and white supremacist (neo-Nazi if you will).  And if you didn't know much about this man, before he became the head of Breitbart.com, he produced and/or directed 18 mostly documentary movies often centering on conservative subjects. So a story in Politico by Adam Wren who binge-watched all of Bannon's movies and wrote about his experience caught my attention ... see: Politico Article.

You can read this hop scotch, highly-hip and overly written analysis if you wish, but there is one passage that captured my attention. I can save your slogging through the entire rest of this word safari by just reproducing this revelation below:

But one thing I was sure of was that the Bannon that emerges in his documentaries is occasionally a contradiction from the Bannon we’ve come to know in recent months. For as much gnashing of teeth as there’s been about Bannon’s white nationalist ties, his documentaries largely steer clear of racial themes, though most of his subjects and talking heads are white Christians. There was Shelby Steele, the Hoover Institution fellow who calls himself a “black conservative.” In “Generation Zero,” Steele wonders how “white guilt” contributed to the financial crisis. “Since the 60s, white Americans have been in a place where they constantly have to prove that they are not racist,” he says. “It is that phenomenon of white guilt that presses people in the government to say things like ‘Everybody has a right to a house.’ Unfortunately, capitalism doesn’t work like that.”

Now would Bannon give such a film spotlight to this black thinker, Shelby Steele, if he were a white supremacist?