“The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can t scare us with the essential inferiority line, they ll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that s the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.”
“Remember how I told you that a person’s conduct is the first hint we have of a person’s character. Sometimes that’s all we have a chance to see. Their conduct is a manifestation of their character. You agreed. Remember, Dr. King? That was going to be part of the speech, and that’s going to help out a lot of people—black and white—in the future if you include those words.”
“,Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares—most ordinary—so ordinary that you can’t believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.”
“Ten wagons to choose from and you pick the only one that has a human on it. Racist.”
“We want to believe something very similar about racism and accusations of racism. If we can prove that a particular allegation of racism is unfounded or untrue, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief and try to move on. That is part of racism s power. It tricks us into thinking that we can wish it away with a string of logical premises and conclusions, with a singular decree of guilt or innocence. We fantasize about isolating this thing and determining its measurable impact once and for all, especially now that blatant forms of racism have been so thoroughly demonized in mainstream society.”
“Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don t respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.”
“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.”
“The sight of a racist mind is too blurred to notice the true beauty of life.”
“A strong presence of racism can weaken the strength of any nation.”
“As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades. ”
“Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.”
“Some people think they are holier than others Some religions think they are the only true ones Some gods think they are the most divine Some races think they are a superior breed The war goes on to the grave and beyond”
“In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.”
“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?”
“The master s tools will never dismantle the master s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
“Say a white boy takes a wrong turn and comes to my hood, he once said. Now he s in the minority––nobody wants him there, unless it s to rob his ass––and more than anything he has to think about how to protect himself, how to get out. There s no weaker situation to be in than that, and this boy isn t getting anything productive done until he s out, back among his own people. But we take a wrong turn and end up at Yale, for the first time in our lives we don t have to worry about protecting ourselves. And we were all able to get enough shit done to be accepted here––so imagine what we can do when you take all the crazy hood shit out of the equation and we can just focus on the business at hand. So what if it s annoying as hell? Instead of sitting around here bitching about it, maybe we just accept that it is what it is, and know that we have the capacity to get way more from them than they ll ever get from us.”
“White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.”