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But when I look at what is putting me and millions of other people of color at risk, a lack of niceness from white people toward
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
To continue reproducing racial inequality, the system only needs white people to be really nice and carry on, smile at people of color, be friendly across race, and go to lunch together on occasion.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
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Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
they regarded integration with precisely the same venom that white people did.
Toni Morrison • Sula
It’s easy to escape into the aesthetic part of a larger social system and to forget that assertive, unchallenged white power often shows up in a battered old Mercedes.
Kristen Richardson • The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Eviction affects the old and the young, the sick and able-bodied. But for poor women of color and their children, it has become ordinary. Walk into just about any urban housing court in America, and you can see them waiting on hard benches for their cases to be called. Among Milwaukee renters, over 1 in 5 black women report having been…
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