105 Quotes About White-privilege

When I walked in and saw four old white men and one older white woman on my interview panel, I knew my odds were slim to none. I prayed that maybe one of the dudes was at least gay or something, but didn’t hold out hope. The fact that anyone could set up an interview panel for the southeast region of the United States in a black-as-fuck city like Atlanta, Georgia, and not even put a single black person (or any person of color) on the panel was beyond me.

Of course, like Descartes, Newton, Locke, Pascal, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wingenstein, Kant never formed an intimate tie or reared a family.

Our police force was not created to serve black Americans; it was created to police black Americans and serve white Americans.

Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color.

America, birthed from the soil of a stolen seed, was impregnated by a bastard named Insurrection. On Jan. 6, their babies made a bold appearance trying to capitalize on their unrighteousness. Now their heirs want to pretend as if nothing happened

Because it benefits us not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of racism.

Varian sat silent for a moment, his hands between his knees. "All my life I've enjoyed perfect privilege," he said. "American, rich, Protestant, Harvard-educated. I could walk down the street anywhere and feel, God help me, like a master.

What were you hoping, when you removed the gags that stopped up these black mouths? That they would sing your praises? Did you think, when the heads our fathers had ground into the dust had raised themselves up again, you would see adoration in their eyes? Here are black men standing, men looking at us, and I want you to feel, as I do, the shock of being seen. For the white man has, for three thousand years, enjoyed the privilege of seeing without being seen.- Black Orpheus

Little hearts cannot speak for themselves.