Racism
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Racism
Kindness is the water of humanity. Without water, we harden. Kindness is an attitude, an aspiration, and a practice.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
burned into you that you do not count and that no provisions are made for the literal protection of your person. The threat of violence is ever present, and there is no way to determine precisely when it may come crushing down upon you. In modern power politics this is called a war of nerves. The underprivileged in any society are the victims of a
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
The art form that black Americans have relied upon for generations is no longer theirs.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
The privilege of whiteness means that one’s day-to-day life is not impacted by skin color,
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Modernity’s coloniality is the elephant in the room.
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within... See more
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
When someone discriminates against a person in a racial group, they are carrying out a policy or taking advantage of the lack of a protective policy.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
The judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Fear becomes anxiety when it makes its home in you. Its chief attachment is not memory or villain or situation or future; its chief attachment and subject is you. This strange and imprecise fear can torment the body and enshroud all other fear experiences.