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This situation hurts minorities because it destines all but a few of them to remain an economic underclass; it hurts the nation because the
Leonard Greenhalgh • Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream
In excluding race from the model (populations are distinguished only by economic status), Forrester makes the starry-eyed assumption that American life is color-blind
Chaim Gingold • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine (Game Histories)
two realities are currently transforming culture: the emergence of the postmodern ethos and the tidal wave of ethnic and religious diversity in the West.
Justin John / Taylor Piper • The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
Gen Z will likely be the last generation where any one racial group is in the majority in the United States.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
Crucially, in this scenario, many non-whites will switch sides from Democrat Blue to Bitcoin Orange, because whether black, white, Latino, or Asian, everyone’s savings will be crushed by inflation.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
In this long battle, a battle by no means finished, the unforeseeable effects of which will be felt by many future generations, the white man’s motive was the protection of his identity; the black man was motivated by the need to establish an identity. And despite the terrorization which the Negro in America endured and endures sporadically until t
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
Racial bias is largely unconscious, and herein lies the deepest challenge—the defensiveness that ensues upon any suggestion of racial bias.4 This defensiveness is classic white fragility because it protects our racial bias while simultaneously affirming our identities as open-minded. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to be confronted with an aspect of oursel
... See moreRobin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
fear of loss of entitlement and special designation.