By Shelby Steele |
I believe that freedom of the individual — as opposed to good works or “social justice” — is by far the highest goal any society can strive for.
I became a conservative precisely to deal with my fate as a black American born into a segregated society. Racism had deprived me of individual freedom as I grew up in segregated America.
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