347 Quotes About Racism-in-america

Would Jesus build a wall? Would Mother Teresa? No, of course not. They would welcome the refugees and give them free universal healthcare.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

The institutional narrowness promoted in public education mutes the creative genius of most boys of color. The marginalization of a young King's creativity is an assault on his thinking; it's an act of incarcerating his thoughts.

If it is true that education is the main foundation of any society, it follows that the state of race in today’s America mirrors its education system. Therefore, America’s education needs serious examination and even remaking. It is a system that uses Blacks (and other marginalized people) as mere tokens. You see a meager quota of Black people (as employees or students) here and there to give the false impression of equity.

This is what ideology does. We don’t adapt our view based on the facts at hand,  we assemble facts based on our ideology.  We remember what we like. And white Americans are well practiced in this magical thinking, this selective memory. American exceptionalism dictates that we are entitled to a good history as our birthright. Received wisdom that, in the defense of our good name, encourages white Americans to be less than critical about our past.

Even though Confederate monuments are extensively about remembering the past, "[they] can also be about facilitating forgetting... the public is encouraged to see the past in one way. So inherently it is being encouraged not to remember another part of the past.

Give me my brother. You can keep your friends.

I wish I was smart enough to know the difference between relenting like a coward and having the courage to change your mind, which is only another way of saying, I suppose, that I want to know truth.