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“apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.”

Stills Left Air Racism Clouds Chemicals Warfare Apartheid Poisonous Chemical Warfare

Book:South From the Limpopo

Source: South From the Limpopo

“Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.”

Way Persons Ideas Feelings Reality Individual Left Understanding Race Focus Conditions Theory Offers Racism Intention Critical Discrimination Racist Framework Bad Ideas Biased

Author:Dean Spade

“I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.”

Ifs Knows Men Trying Kind Said Ends Young Fighting Father Left Emotional Grew Dad Grew Up Racism Towns My Dad Young Man Nazi Small Town Poland Anti Semitism Horrific Traumatic Experiences

Author:Bernie Sanders

“A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.”

Country America Left Process White Media Son Racism Internals Latin Activist Farmers Imaginary Colonialism Mexican Latin America Leftists Latin American

Author:Bocafloja

“Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.”

Knows World Littles Country America Left Know How Racism Racist Suspects Arriving Depiction Emigrating

Author:Dennis Prager

“As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.”

Littles Left Position Racism Claims Wings These Days Brown Marxism Migration Left Wing Anti Semitism Marxism Leninism

Author:Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“There is a bunch of racism in America, and sadly, most of it's on the left side of the aisle.”

America Left Sides Racism Bunch Racism In America Aisle

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.”

“If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things.”

Ifs Thinking Way Doe Left Born Racism Excuse Acceptable Homosexuality

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.”

People Government Political Choices Left Violence Century Policy Color Racism Slave Persecution 20th Century Repression

Author:Assata Shakur

“The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.”

“You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.”

Source: Impromptu Scribe