Racism
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Racism
Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now—all over a globe which has never been and never will
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
I may well have been the most qualified person for the job. But it wasn’t a fair competition, and in acting like it was fair, and accepting my prize without question, I helped ensure that it would stay unfair.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
There are very strong words of Martin Luther King. His question was always, how is it that one group—the white group—can despise another group, which is the black group. And will it always be like this? Will we always be having an elite condemning or pushing down others that they consider not worthy? And he says something I find extremely beautiful
... See moreKrista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
The great impulse of the courtroom seemed to be to put these people where they could not be seen—and not because they were offended at the crimes, unless, indeed, they were offended that the crimes were so petty, but because they did not wish to know that their society could be counted on to produce, probably in greater and greater numbers, a whole
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
This is the difference between racism and prejudice. There is an unattributed definition of racism that defines it as prejudice plus power.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
When someone says Black people can’t be racist because Black people don’t have “institutional power,” they are flouting reality. The powerless defense strips Black policymakers and managers of all their power. The powerless defense says the more than 154 African Americans who have served in Congress from 1870 to 2018 had no legislative power. It
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Privilege, in the social justice context, is an advantage or a set of advantages that you have that others do not.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
the ammunition to shoot Black people, to shoot myself, and I took and used it. Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime.