White Guilt

White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele, Harper Perennial, 2007. 

Moral Authority

Mainstream America lost moral authority during the 1960s. The cause of its loss was of its history of abuse against black Americans. The consequence of its lolls of moral authority was an inability to enforce personal responsibility on Americans in general, but especially on black Americans. If any one criticized black Americans for children born out of wedlock, being dependent on welfare, being unemployed, or committing crimes, they were accused of blaming the victim. Whites were told “who are you to criticize us”. What with your own history of immoral behavior (slaves, Jim Crow, racism). Blacks who did so were accused of being Uncle Toms and betraying their people .