30 Quotes by Timothy B. Tyson

"We are still killing black youth because we have not yet killed white supremacy."

"We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the historical truth about how African Americans finally won their freedom presents a major obstacle to genuine racial reconciliation."

"The federal government was entirely complicit. When President Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act of 1935, Southern conservatives and their Northern Republican allies forced the New Deal legislation to exclude domestic workers and farmworkers from all of its employment provisions. That shielded."

"The ruthless attack inflicted injuries almost certain to be fatal. They reveal a breathtaking level of savagery, a brutality that cannot be explained without considering rabid homicidal intent or a rage utterly beyond control. Affronted white supremacy drove every blow."

"The black novelist Chester Himes wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Post the day he heard the news of Milam’s and Bryant’s acquittals: “The real horror comes when your dead brain must face the fact that we as a nation don’t want it to stop. If we wanted to, we would."

"What does it mean when you remember something that you know never happened?"

"What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don’t understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip – even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged."

"What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine."

"Lord you gave your only son to remedy a condition, but who knows but what the death of my only son might bring an end to lynching."

"South where I grew up. In large measure, this reflected a racial and gender caste system that denied most other opportunities to African American women. That system was designed to ensure a ready supply of cheap black labor, especially for the Southern ruling classes that emerged out of slavery’s old planter class. But the privilege of exploiting black labor extended even to fairly lowly whites; textile mill hands and poor farmers, for example, frequently employed their black."