‘White Guilt’ Slams BLM as Epic Grift
Shelby Steele narrates doc detailing western culture's suicidal empathy
Eli Steele has an ace up his filmmaking sleeve.
The director is the son of Shelby Steele, the celebrated author and pundit whose intellect and reassuring voice would be a boon for any documentary.
Eli Steele leaned on those strengths for “What Killed Michael Brown?” That film defanged more than a few media narratives surrounding the Ferguson, Miss. resident’s 2015 death.
Now, the filmmaker is reteaming with his father for “White Guilt,” which could be even more incendiary than that film or his directorial debut, “How Jack Became Black.”
The first trailer for “White Guilt” debuted on YouTube today, and with it a teaser that excoriates some explosive topics:
- BLM.
- The Free Palestine movement
- DEI
- Pakistani grooming gangs
And more.
The documentary tracks recent American history from Shelby Steele’s perspective. He began as a black militant but reassessed his cultural perspective over time.
Now, he’s warning us what could be next if we ignore what White Guilt can do to a healthy society.
“Should the civilization that made the individual possible finally collapse, the backward man will still be congratulating himself before the darkness falls on him, too,” Shelby Steele warns in the trailer.
The film features a crush of experts, including Seneca Scott, Jason Riley, David Mamet, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Paul Rossi, Pastor Corey Brooks, Andrew Gutmann, Dumisani Washington and Dee Dee Lefrak.
The director shared his philosophy behind the film via his Substack platform.
“White guilt is the most important story no one is telling honestly. Not Marxism. Not woke ideology. Not suicidal empathy. Those are symptoms. White guilt is the disease that allows these other ideologies and behaviors to take hold. It’s the grease that makes all of it possible, and until we name it clearly, we have no chance of reversing it.”
The film will be released via GATHR, although there’s no official date as of yet.