“I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsWholeCharacterShowsRememberFeltGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionRacismPrejudiceMy WayAsianCharlieTelevision Shows Author:David Henry Hwang
“As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.” PeoplePersonsShowsWhiteLevelsClassColorRacismSeminarsPhds Author:W. Kamau Bell
“I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.” PeopleIfsShowsCommunityAudienceLaughingGroupsExampleRacismLaugh At YourselfClams Author:Russell Peters
“Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??” StillsShowsRocksRacismHostOscars Author:Tyrese Gibson
“You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.” FeelsLittlesShowsAmericaCertainBitsLittle BitRacismStartingEasePocketsRight TimeCosby Show Author:Adam McKay
“Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?” FirstsHas BeensShowsRunningPresidentEconomyViolenceRacismDemocratAfrican AmericanUnemploymentAmerican President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots.” HumansStillsShowsAmericaSportsHuman BeingsTeamRacismPopeBullsSports TeamInstitutional RacismMascots Author:Russell Means
“I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.” IfsMayMeanLongTwoWarStatesShowsLevelsRaceEnemyStruggleRightsRacismRegardSlaverySlaveRaisedComplainingCivil RightsSouthernDeprivedObligedRevoltAbolitionFreemanAbolition Of Slavery Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“I feel sorry for Obama because he's still got to fight the innate racism of Americans. I mean, did you see his first speech, when he got made President and they put all that bullet proof glass in front of him? I think that shows you how racist America still is. Just because he's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot anybody.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsMeanMadeStillsShowsAmericaFightingBlackPresidentFrontsSpeechRacismSorryGlassesProofRacistBulletsInnate Author:Frankie Boyle
“I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.” CountryPlayShowsPerfectLaughingCryProveRacismHypothesisProve ItHystericalCommonality Author:Michael Jackson