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the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, a reader asked ,”How would/should movements like BLM stop the violence in inner city communities? What should local municipalities (black-run or not) do to stem the violence? One way could be to allocate more resources to education, to allocate resources to community programs, to allocate resources to places like Planned Parenthood, etc. — all things that many commentators and authors on this blog would be against. So what do you experts think?”
The Ridgewood decided to ask a expert Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994.
The Ridgewood blog complied these quotes from several interviews .
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele describes the current Black Lives Matter and other racial protest saying they are a “distraction” from the real issues facing the Black community.