“Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.” SportsViewsViolenceWorstFootballDrugRacismAspectGreedIllnessStupidityMental IllnessSoccerAnalysisOur SocietyExploitationAssociatesDrunkennessRacketStarters Author:Simon Heffer
“One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.” PeopleLittlesMatterStatesUnitedDealsRaceUnited StatesRacismAspectRelationImprovementGreat MenRace Relations Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.” MayUnderstandingBlackRaceDangerousRacismConceptsAspectNotionFolksInsightAfrican AmericanRacistOverwhelmingScholarshipValiditySexist Author:Bell Hooks
“Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.” PeopleLongStillsWarClearLong TimeRacismAspectUncomfortableCivil WarLong Time Ago Author:Randy Newman
“To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.” PeopleNeedsYearsBelieveStillsImportantEndsTodayRaceViolenceAwarenessRacismAspectSlaveryImportant ThingsTreatedEducatedSegregation Author:Assata Shakur
“I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.” HumansHas BeensEnoughBigsAbleCertainViewsRaceRacismAspectRaisedFortunateBig Questions Author:Sidney Poitier
“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.” SocialMy OwnRaceIdentityRacismAspectEmploymentNarrativeConstructsWombMy FriendshipWhitenessRacial Identity Book:White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son Source: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
“As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.” PersonsWhiteTaughtRacismAdvantageAspectPrivilegeI RealizedDisadvantagesWhite Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh