“Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.” EmpathyRacismPrejudiceEmpathy DiversityEmpathy PsychologyContemporary Racism Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“When political strategists argue that the Republican Party is missing a huge chance to court the black community, they are thinking of this mostly male bloc—the old guy in the barbershop, the grizzled Pop Warner coach, the retired Vietnam vet, the drunk uncle at the family reunion. He votes Democratic, not out of any love for abortion rights or progressive taxation, but because he feels—in fact, he knows—that the modern-day GOP draws on the support of people who hate him.” PoliticsRacismPolitical PartiesBlack HistorySystemic RacismIdentity PoliticsContemporary Racism Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy