A documentary essay by Eli Steele · Streaming OCTOBER 6 on Amazon, Apple & Google
OFFICIAL TRAILER
"It's time for all this white guilt to end."
--Rush Limbaugh, 2013
Since the 1960s, white guilt has grown into one of the most destructive evils undermining the West. Shelby Steele chronicled it from the beginning. His son, Eli Steele, made it into a film.
Shelby Steele today
The young dissident in Algiers, Algeria
HIS IDEAS WERE AHEAD OF THE TIMES.
“White people do not exist in a special state of sin or collective guilt.”
THE FILM
A moral collapse, sixty years in the making
“White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic.”
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After the Civil Rights victories of the 1960s, white America didn't just feel guilt. It surrendered its hold on America and that surrender became a weapon. Merit collapsed and standards fell. Individual responsibility gave way to grievance as power. And the institutions meant to lift people up were quietly repurposed to keep them down.
Shelby Steele, once a black militant who embrace liberation movements across the third world, spent a lifetime watching white guilt metastasize from a college campus shakedown into a civilizational crisis. Now, after October 7, he sees the endpoint: a West so disarmed by its own guilt that Hamas's massacre of over a thousand people is called resistance, campus antisemitism goes unpunished, and anti-Western tribalism marches openly in the streets.
What's at stake is nothing less than America's greatest gift to the world: the individual. The radical idea that every human being stands equal under the law, fully accountable for his own life, free to rise or fall on his own terms. White guilt doesn’t just undermine the individual. It destroys it, replacing the individual with the tribe, and freedom with the scramble for victim status.
Featuring David Mamet, Dumisani Washington, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Pastor Corey Brooks, Jodi Shaw, Paul Rossi, Jason Riley, Rafael Mangual, Andrew Gutmann, Dee Dee Lefrak and others who refused to kneel, and paid for it.
White guilt didn't end racism. It reversed good and evil. The answer isn't more guilt. It's the oldest American idea there is: be an individual. Be an American.
From civil rights warrior and black militant to fearless dissident, Shelby Steele unmasks white guilt as the toxin that poisoned America -- destroying merit, igniting riots, demolishing standards, and now arming global chaos from campus bloodlust to civilizational suicide.
When good and evil have been utterly reversed, what happens to those who refuse to surrender?
-- Suella Braverman, UK, 2023
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Shelby Steele and Eli Steele are currently bringing to life the story of how White Guilt profoundly changed America over the last 60 years. This documentary is an update of Shelby Steele’s 2007 book, “White Guilt.”
