Shelby Steele, an award-winning author, has long argued that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth, and that the worldwide subjugation of black Americans is nearly finished. A white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed a black teenager in 2014 and the incident rocked the nation. An other shocking murder occurred while Steele was conducting his work in Ferguson: George Floyd's savage death. What about the many additional cases like these that disproved Steele's claim?