“Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.” LightEvilNamesWomenHealingSupportRacismAngelShadowDefenseGuidanceDemonSexismHomophobiaAngels And DemonsLight And Shadow Author:Matthew Fox
“the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.” GivingBodyNamesRoomsClassWeaponsRacismHatredWeightDiscriminationFatsDivision Author:Elana Dykewomon
“For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.” PainNamesGenerationsTeamLandFootballRacismLegacyNativeNative AmericanRemindersFootball Team Author:Dan Maffei
“Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.” WarChristianNamesChristConflictRacismPrejudiceMurderTerrorismBuddhistDawnEngagedBigotry Author:Deepak Chopra
“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.” IfsWarNamesSocialClassDrugRacismFunctionWar On DrugsSocial Control Author:David Simon
“News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.” PeopleWayFirstsMeanChildrenWarBodySchoolNamesRaceTvsBattleNewsRacismSouthDinnerGradesVietnamHouseholdBloodyComing BackReally MeanRiotAlabamaGrades In SchoolRace Riots Author:Jello Biafra
“You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.” GivingPersonsProblemRealityEyeNamesStreetsExerciseRacismResponsibleCan NotCrowBeing ResponsibleJim Crow Author:Raoul Peck
“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.” PeopleWorldWarHappensThreeNamesCitiesMillionsEternalCreatingRacismProgramSlaveryPrisonSouthKillingDebtAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThis DayBitternessDestroyingQuartersWorld War IiFlagsWorld War IThreatenedHostilityConfederateBrewingConfederate Flag Author:David Swanson
“My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.” PersonsTwoHardJobsNamesBlackDadRacismMovedMy DadJust BeingSuburbsBulliedBlack PersonBeing BulliedTwo Jobs Author:Sherri Shepherd
“Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.” YearsMayWholeFeelingsCultureNamesBlackReligiousWhiteShareCivilizationThousandRacismEuropeTraditionResponsibleSouthManageTensionRegionsLatinDividedContinentsBlack And WhiteBrutalSavagesThousand YearsRevivalBeing ResponsibleLatentContinuationUncivilizedSaharaOld Traditions Author:Frantz Fanon
“The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.” PeopleKnowsMenWantBookIdeasCountryProblemNextNamesPresidentWhiteNumbersRacePiecesGroupsRacismBad DayHistory BooksWhite Race Author:Chris Matthews
“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.” MeanNamesAbilityConsciousnessImagineFeminismRacismCapitalismGenderSexualityPostsRelateColonialismMultipleGender Equality Author:Angela Davis
“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.” WayWantFactsLightWould BeFacesNamesLeftWhiteHugeColdTruth IsRacismStandardsBaseballMarkAthleteLike MeProtectedHouseholdLatinoCubanLeft OutDouble StandardOutspokenBradyCal Ripken Author:Jose Canseco
“White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.” IdeasMovingNamesIndividualSidesWhiteResultsResponsibilityMoralEffectsDangerEasierRacismBasesGuiltPrivilegeNo IdeaTaking ResponsibilityOutrageWhite PrivilegeWallowingMoral Outrage Author:Paula Rothenberg