Racism

I think that “doing nothing”—in the sense of refusing productivity and stopping to listen—entails an active process of listening that seeks out the effects of racial, environmental, and economic injustice and brings about real change.

Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible.

Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.

A world that relies on social inequality to keep its machinery running can only afford for a handful of people to imagine themselves “gifted.”

“What are the benefits to living in a Black-majority city?” and, “Why do so many of us choose to stay in them?”

to fully abandon an exploitative and destructive status quo, we need to dig even deeper.

Worldview-Reform

We need to not only shift our attention toward the systems level but also toward the worldviews or mental models that lie behind it.

The American Negro cannot explain to the African what surely seems in himself to be a want of manliness, of racial pride, a maudlin ability to forgive. It is difficult to make clear that he is not seeking to forfeit his birthright as a black man, but that, on the contrary, it is precisely this birthright which he is struggling to recognize and make