“Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded Aussies ; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the go back to where you came from line? WAKE UP RACISTS.”
“There is no racism against white people. If you can turn on the tv and see people like you that s not racism. If you can have your favorite characters who are poc race changed to look like you then you don t face racism. If you don t think about Ferguson every single second because your race is being killed every hour, that s not racism. If you don t get called derogatory slurs because of your skin tone that s not racism. If you don t hate your body because of your race that s not racism. If you don t have to go through life knowing people will think of you as ugly or disgusting and hate you simply because your white that s not racism. You don t face racism for being white. Ya people can be jerks about it. But its not institutionalized. That s like saying you face discrimination for being straight. It s not a thing. You don t face racism. You might want to get over that”
“It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else s blood.”
“They ve been practicing racism so long, it s perfect.”
“Calling out the supposed ‘abuse’ of welfare by blacks and other people of color is a time-honored tactic for distracting the general public from actual national issue. It also taps into latent, subconscious racism, which is what right-wing politicians would call a ‘win-win.”
“I often say never write about white people. Not many people realize what I mean by this. Its pretty simple. Some may think its unrealistic to have an ethnically diverse cast but its ten times more unrealistic to see a cast of only white people. Like I don t know where you ve grown up but the world isn t that way, at least not if your reading this post in English.”
“Unfortunately, post racism is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.”
“And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant.”
“Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don t care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so.”
“Old Ways May Not Give You Up An elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Islam by discarding the very beliefs in spirits and mystical inanimate objects that have held our societies together for more three centuries. He threw his fetishes in a nearby lake. Sadly he turned and walked away from the lake and the traditions. As the elder walked away, the fetishes leaped out of the lake onto his back again to reclaim him. “Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe”
“Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.”
“a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!” And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America’s future.”
“The Indians’ insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.”
“Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.”
“It s hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.”
“Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.”
“Let s make progress justice a process, not an afterthought”