“The lexicon must make room for white patriarchy s specific way of disregarding the humanity of Black women in literal physical spaces like New Orleans during and after Katrina, and in the narratives and policy making that either created a pathway home or left them stranded. Every step of the Katrina response depresenced Black women, forced them to bear the weight of natural disaster while carrying the cellular memory of trauma one can imagine will pass through bloodlines like so many others. Unlike erasure, which requires one s presence to be recognized so it can be obliterated, depresencing never acknowledges presence at all. When deployed, people just look right through Black women as if they weren t there. As violent and silent as depresencing is, there s an antidote. The response to Hurricane Katrina was not the first time the U.S. government abandoned Black women, and it would not be the last. Black women resisted by showing up in the story of their lives, by loving, learning, and leading--despite the systemic barriers and humiliations designed to make them small enough to practically disappear. But Black women did not disappear, and they will not disappear because we know something established power does not: we are something.”
“The Republican party was built off the back of segregation in the southern strategy and it has never reconciled with that fact, as its continuously perpetuated GOP white supremacy.”
“Nur Monster zwangen Mädchen und Frauen dazu, wie menschliche Kartoffelsäcke herumzulaufen, und machten damit Schlagzeigen. Und diese Arschlöcher hatten es geschafft, das gesellschaftliche Klima für alle zu bestimmen. Mittlerweile fragte mich niemand, warum ich Kopftuch trug. Die Leute bildeten sich ein, die Antwort zu kennen, obwohl die meisten komplett danebenlagen. Ich trug es nicht, weil ich eine Nonne sein wollte, sondern weil ich mich damit geborgen fühlte – weniger verwundbar. Für mich war es eine Art Rüstung. Ich trug das Kopftuch, weil ich es tragen wollte und ganz bestimmt nicht, um züchtig auszusehen, nur weil irgendwelche Idioten es nicht schafften, ihren Schwanz in der Hose zu behalten.”
“When we work at the sugar-canes, and the mill snatches hold of a finger, they cut off the hand; and when we attempt to run away, they cut off the leg; both cases have happened to me. This is the price at which you eat sugar in Europe. - XIX WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN.”
“Colonialism, as I understand it, is white people stealing land from black and brown people, white people beating and killing black and brown people, white people forcing black and brown people into slavery and servitude.”
“I suspect there are undercurrents of racism towards British people in the USA due to Independence Day, July 4th.”
“This hypothesis, believed by many Western scholars at the time, held that there were two races present in Africa: the Hamitic race and the Negroid race. The Hamitic race was thought to be a superior race of people who originated in northern Africa. British historian C. G. Seligman went so far as to claim that all significant discoveries and advancements in African history, including those of the Ancient Egyptians, were achieved by Hamites. He argued that Hamites migrated into central Africa, bringing more sophisticated customs, languages, and technologies with them. Hamites were believed by Westerners to be more closely related to white people. Tutsis were believed to be descendants of Hamitic people because they had more European features. Hutus were believed to be Negroid. Tutsis were therefore allowed better educations and jobs. Ethnic identity cards were introduced to ensure tribal division. Many have argued that this division was at the root of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, during which members of the Hutu majority murdered as many as eight hundred thousand Tutsi people.”
“this double desire, this dueling consciousness, yielded an inner strife between Black pride and a yearning to be White.”
“The problem of systemic racism is much bigger than mere reparations can solve. I am not opposing reparations mark you, but the only thing that can actually make any difference is an everyday, ordinary and yet incorruptible regard for human life in every single person regardless of their color.”
“Yes, racist people, it is confusing to think that every police shooting of unarmed people using excessive force is racist, and indeed nobody in the black lives matter movement has ever suggested that is the case. What we do say, is backed up by scientific data that proves there is systemic racism in policing and our Criminal Justice System overall. So all of these excessive use of force cases where Police Murder civilians who were unarmed are indeed backed up by that systemically racist criminal justice system. So it is all inherently racist even if it wasn t the police officers intent to be racist at that moment in time. You know, just because he was trying to murder in cold blood a {human} he swore an oath to protect.”
“Black is bein guilty until proven that you re innocent”
“I am inclusion, I am indivisible. My struggle is unity, Human and hate are incompatible.”
“When breath of one becomes the breath of all, All atrocious walls will collapse into dust. When there’s no more ‘my people your people’, Only then we will be human at last.”
“I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods(...) When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind.”
“In a so-called civilized world, a person with white skin is worth more than a person of color – thus they receive privileges in every walk of society, whereas the person of color faces doubt and suspicion every step of the way.”
“Be united with the world and the world will unite around you.”
“– Me permettez-vous de vous donner un conseil ? – Certainement, dit Viviane, tout en se demandant combien de temps sa visiteuse allait rester. – Vous êtes nouvelle venue en Malaisie et vous n êtes naturellement pas au courant de nos usages et de notre étiquette assez compliquée... Les gens ont tôt fait de mal interpréter les erreurs les plus innocentes, surtout dans une petite ville comme Mauping. Je dis toujours que les ragots sont à l origine de la moitié de nos ennuis. Elle posa sur la jeune fille un regard méditatif. – Si vous en venions au fait ? dit Viviane, brutalement. Mme Carshalton en fut un instant déconcertée. Elle détestait qu on la pressât. – Eh bien... je vous ai aperçue par hasard, l autre jour, en ville. Vous étiez en trisha, avec votre amah, et j en ai été contrariée. Franchement, ma chère enfant, les Européens ne circulent pas en trisha. Elle posa sa tasse et s essuya la bouche avec un mouchoir de dentelle. – Encore, si vous aviez retenu un autre trisha pour votre servante... Il leur vient des idées de grandeur, quand on se montre trop familier avec ces gens-là. – Je vous remercie, dit Viviane en agitant la petite clochette de cuivre. Mais laissez-moi vous dire une chose, Madame Carshalton. Je ne partage pas ces idées étroites et je n ai pas la moindre intention de me conformer à vos règles de conduite. Si j ai besoin de conseils, je prendrai l avis de Chen, qui était lié d une étoite amitié avec mon parrain. Une chose encore : si vous avez l obligeance d informer vos amis de mon attitude, cela m épargnera d autres entretiens comme celui-ci.”