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“I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.”

People Ifs Thinking Opportunity Behinds Racism Cameras Producers

Author:Denzel Washington

“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.”

States Moving Form Force United Deals Behinds United States Movement Racism Evidence Prejudice Racial Prejudice Resurgence

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.”

World Believe Made War Body Faces Behinds Racism Flesh Loud War Of The Worlds Bigotry Yellow World War Ii World War I Betrayed Wire Barbed Wire

Book:We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

Source: We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

“The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.”

“So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.”

Way Want Used White Behinds Republican Racism Conservative Racist Thug

Author:Dick Gregory

“There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression."”

Together Form Culture Behinds Theory Racism Oppression Etc Sexism Interconnected Victimhood Intersectionality Classism Overlapping

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.”

“..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.”

Looks May Speak Poor Behinds Racism Salvation Hip Hop Hips Hops Rapper Behalf Against Racism

Book:Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.

Source: Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language”

Ifs Made Political Language Party Behinds Creative One Thing Racism Conservative Inherent Political Correctness Cloaks Correctness Conservative Party

Author:Stewart Lee