“Whenever [Daisy] entered a café she always felt obliged to choose a table where a coloured man or woman was already sitting, so that they should not feel slighted in any way. Looking around her, she saw a table for four with an African already at it. Then she noticed that a clergyman, also bearing a tray, was making for the same table, but she managed to get there before him and put her bag down on the chair next to her to prevent him from sitting down. One never knew – he might be a Roman Catholic or Oxford Group: it did not occur to her that he too might be trying to show the black man that there was no colour bar here.”
“Can we hurry up and get some black subscribers, so we don t look so racist?”
“White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It s having advantage built into your life. It s not saying your life hasn t been hard; it s saying your skin color hasn t contributed to the difficulty in your life.”
“Imagine that—hating someone who was knit together in their mothers’ wombs by the very same God who knit you together in your mother’s womb…”
“Borrowing from something I wrote a few years ago, let me just say that if you have an issue with the color of someone else’s skin, the sobering truth is that your issue isn’t with them as much as it is with God.”
“Again, we are the way we are because the Most High chose to make us this way.”
“I assure you if He didn’t want you to be the color you are, you wouldn’t be that color! It’s as simple as that...”
“imagine standing before the great I AM on that inescapable day, and trying to explain to Him the mistake you thought He made with someone else’s skin color.”
“Were they really Aboriginal? Did they really belong to Warren Finch s ancestral country? Anthropologists, lawyers and other experts, like archeologists, sociologists and historians, were called to examine the genealogies of these people. And emergency legislation was bulldozed through parliament in the dead of night which claimed that Warren Finch was the blood relative of every Australian, which gave power to the government to decide where he was to be buried.”
“Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it.”
“We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous.”
“Racism doesn t wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating.”
“We are not a collection of subspecies separated by biological canyons. Neither nature nor supernatural design imposed the different and often contradictory racial classification systems used around the world. -- Race and Science , SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 3 2020”
“The reality is that racial lynchings were a frequent and normal feature of life in the South. This unique method of murder was a devastating form of terrorism that imposed a constant threat to all black people. The white authority structure did not only tolerate or encourage these killings but used the fear of lynchings to control and oppress black people.” --“Why White America Must Learn the History of Lynching”, Skeptical Inquirer (December 2020)”
“The survival of an animal is predicated on how swiftly it can act on its primitive biases, in other words instincts, whereas the integrity of the fabric of human society is predicated on how conscientiously you can restrain your biases.”
“Lynchings in the past have significantly shaped race relations in the present. A killing such as George Floyd’s lands on black people with a much heavier psychological weight because of lynching’s legacy. Too many white people fail to recognize this, and that needs to change. The hurt is too great, the simmering fear and anger too volatile, to bury forever. All Americans who would seek or demand a nation that is fairer to every citizen, less racist, and more peaceful have a responsibility to know this history in detail. … Confronting this ugliness would be difficult for everyone, of course, but it should be attempted. Ignorance and denial certainly have not worked, because this American wound still bleeds.” -- “Why White America Must Learn the History of Lynching”, Skeptical Inquirer (December 2020)”
“I was jealous, of course, partly that by avoiding the academic race beat, Genie had sidestepped the daily trauma of the historical record, the sometimes brutality and sometimes banality of anti-Blackness, the loop of history that was always a noose if you looked at it long enough.”