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“the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.”

Worst Color Racism Notion Confusion Denial Blindness Ideological

Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.”

People Long White Color Racism Claims Denial Bias Racial Bias

Book:Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male

Source: Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male

“Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.”

People Way Feels Trying Problem Pain Deals Environment Racism Tools Hatred Increase Denial Frustration Feel Better Scapegoat

Author:Matt Dillon

“Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.”

“As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.”

Way Country States Culture Justice Race Talking Leader Issues Diversity Racism Social Justice Denial Remedy

Author:Lani Guinier

“The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.”

“We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.”

“The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.”

Form Racism Denial

Author:Tim Wise

“Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.”

Men Opportunity Mankind Color Equal Racism Skins Denial Diminish Livelihood Equal Opportunity

Author:Everett Dirksen

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

“The central quality in the Negro’s life is pain—pain so old and so deep that it shows in almost every moment of his existence. It emerges in the cheerlessness of his sorrow songs, in the melancholy of his blues and in the pathos of his sermons. The Negro while laughing sheds invisible tears that no hand can wipe away. In a highly competitive world, the Negro knows that a cloud of persistent denial stands between him and the sun, between him and life and power, between him and whatever he needs.”

Pain Sorrow Racism Denial Melancholy African Americans Blacks

Book:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?