“Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.” PersonsMadeIndividualDifficultGroupsProveRacismStandardsEvidenceCourtIntentionFocusedDoctrineChainsMade ItRacistCausation Author:Dean Spade
“The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.” PeopleMadeDifficultIssuesRacismPrejudiceSouthObservationSouth AfricaApartheidRacial Prejudice Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The way racism works in Canada, it's very subtle. You may feel you're a victim of racism or have experienced racism, but you can't necessarily prove it - unless you get a [white] friend to go check out that rental, go check out that job, whatever. Unless you're willing to really dig to prove you're a victim of racism, it might be difficult to do that. And so what you're dealing with then is feeling, it's emotion.” WayFeelsMayFeelingsMightJobsDifficultWhiteEmotionWillingProveRacismVictimChecksCanadaSubtleProve It Author:George Elliott Clarke
“If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.” ThinkingMeanLongActionDifficultGoalEconomicPolicyRacismProgramLaborUltimateStressDiscouragingAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:William Julius Wilson
“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?” FeelingsDifficultWhiteRacismFolksDominationSubjugation Book:Black Looks: Race and Representation Source: Black Looks: Race and Representation
“If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.” IfsThinkingWayFormDifficultUnderstandingNumbersRacismBirdFeministConnectedTrappedCagesWireDisadvantagesLarge NumbersExaminingLack Of Understanding Author:Iris Marion Young
“The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.” PeopleThinkingWantSportsDifficultRacismOvercomingHardestRacistHardest Thing Author:Herschel Walker