“Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?” YearsChildrenGovernmentSchoolPartyCenturyPlanetsCoupleRacismYears AgoInstitutionsSlaveryDemocraticSlaveTreatedIndianApologizingPotatoesDemocratic PartyFamineAbolitionBlairAbolition Of SlaveryPotato FamineCanadian Government Author:Sean Hannity
“To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.” PeopleNeedsYearsBelieveStillsImportantEndsTodayRaceViolenceAwarenessRacismAspectSlaveryImportant ThingsTreatedEducatedSegregation Author:Assata Shakur
“There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.” PeopleWayWantCommunityChallengesRacismTreatsDiscriminationTreatedLgbtSexismContinuingLgbt Community Author:Hillary Clinton
“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” IfsLooksPoliticalHeavenBlackWhitePowerfulOur LivesRacismResponseTreatedLook UpWhat IfInferiorsGod Is There Book:RFK: collected speeches Source: RFK: collected speeches
“Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.” WantMindBelieveHumansSelfLyingCertainHuman BeingsRacismSpringTreatsTreatedFalsehoodSelf CenteredAnti Racism Author:Alveda King
“We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?” TalkingGoes OnRacismTreatedAfrican AmericanAgendasPhilanthropy Author:Judith Jamison
“I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.” ThinkingI CanReasonPoliticsPresidentRacismCriticismVoteTreatedAdministration Author:Glenn Reynolds