“As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.” PersonsWhiteTaughtRacismAdvantageAspectPrivilegeI RealizedDisadvantagesWhite Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
“Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.” PeoplePersonsJusticeWhiteResponsibilityEventsColorBalanceRacismSocial JusticePrivilegeRacistSubconsciousReacting Author:Eileen O'Brien
“Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.” KnowsPersonsBloodPositionRacismPressureVictimRacistStrokesSymptomsBlood PressureHigh Blood Pressure Author:Coleman Young
“We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.” PersonsGovernmentUsedBlackWhiteTalkingRichPoliticianRacismInjusticeAverageCorporateRacistExploitationNot TalkingLackeys Author:Bobby Seale
“Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.” ThinkingBelieveHumansMeanPersonsStrongNaturalPowerfulPartySupportExampleRacismWeakRelationSuperiorsRelyAcceptableInferiorsPatriarchyPowerlessDominationMaintainingHuman RelationsSocializingPower And Control Author:Bell Hooks
“This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.” PeoplePersonsFilmCultureDifferencesWhiteRaceShareIdentityConflictMassRacismDearMass CultureWhite Racism Author:Justin Simien
“Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.” HumansWellsMeanPersonsProblemFightingRightsCrimeRacismGhastlyHuman Problems Author:Malcolm X
“I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another to bring himself to accept the person who used to pull his plow, who used to be an animal, subhuman, who used to be considered as such by him-it's almost impossible for that person in his right mind to accept that person as his equal.” ThinkingMenWantMindHumansPersonsAmericaUsedBlackHuman BeingsAnimalAcceptingImpossibleEqualRacismUsed To Be Author:Malcolm X