“The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.” CountryStatesUsedPresidentUnitedUnited StatesTruth IsRacismAppealsDevicesSexismHomophobiaSerbia Author:Howard Dean
“The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'” WayWantSchoolUsedValuesWhiteCrimeExampleRacismConcernedPropertyPrivilegeNeighborMysteriousErasMaintainingWant UCrowWhite PrivilegeJim CrowGod Works In Mysterious WaysMysterious Ways Author:Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
“So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.” WayWantUsedWhiteBehindsRepublicanRacismConservativeRacistThug Author:Dick Gregory
“The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative things that appeal to people, that The Arabian Nights could be used as a disguise for racism. It suited the West. You could smuggle racism into children's literature, you see. The African magician in the story of Aladdin, he's labeled explicitly as the "African Magician." He's not a character but a stereotype, and a lot of this got into nursery literature in this Oriental disguise.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCharacterStoriesUsedNightLiteratureRacismNegativeWestAppealsRacistDisguiseStereotypeMagicianNurseryChildren's LiteratureArabianParenthesesArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position.” WorldHeartSeemsCareUsedPoorSeeingPositionGrewGrew UpRacismSouthDon't CareUnderdog Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down. But it has also been used in other ways. It's also been used as a way of putting a mirror up to racism.” PeopleWayHas BeensUsedRacismMirrorsInfamy Author:Randall Kennedy
“It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.” IfsKnowsMeanPoliticalUsedStrongBlackSleepToo MuchRacismWeakHotCoffeeUsed To BeCreamMulticulturalismBlack HistoryIntegratingGrassrootsWakes You Author:Malcolm X
“…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people.” PeopleFeelingsUsedValuesForceUnderstandingBlackTermWhiteAttitudeColorExerciseRacismNegativeSlaveryBlack PeopleWhite SupremacyMaintainingHierarchyApartheidBlacknessSupremacyComplicityNegative Feelings Author:Bell Hooks
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.” PeopleMenWorldMightActionUsedHumanityEnergyWomenBlackWhiteResponsibilityPositionGayRacismThirdsConstantExpectedRealisticEducateScenariosDrainsOppressorsThird WorldGay MenRedefiningDevising Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.” IfsWayStatesUsedMoralRightsRacismHatredCodeCensorshipSixtyDisguiseFuriousGood WordsPerfectly GoodBusybodiesStates Rights Author:John Waters
“(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” IfsPersonsStatesUsedNiceRacismSellsRacistFlagsTrafficAnti RacismNice PersonAnti Racist Author:Dan Rather
“When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.” LightKidsUsedCultureBlackWhiteHairRacismSkinsMovedShockNeighborhoodAll BlackCulture ShockBlack RacismStraight Hair Author:Halle Berry
“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.” FirstsUsedBlackWeaponsRacismIncreaseWorkersProfitRacistWealthyBlack Racism Author:Angela Davis
“Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.” PeopleFactsMightFacesUsedJusticeWhiteLevelsInfluenceColorExerciseRacismTasksSocial JusticePrivilegeCyclesSpheresPowerlessDomainPower And ControlSphere Of Influence Author:Beverly Daniel Tatum
“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
“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
“We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.” ThinkingMenShouldUsedBlackPrideRacismUsed To BeLazy Author:James Earl Jones
“I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.” PeopleThinkingFormUsedBlackDifferencesWhiteGrowingMiddleRacismEuropeProfoundFocusedUsed To BeBlack And WhiteEastern Author:Montel Williams