Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is p...
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.
To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there...
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privi...
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it beco...
History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.
Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas; now imagine they...
All white people, I think, are implicated in these things so long as we participate in America in a normal way and attempt to go on leading normal lives while any one race is being cheated and torment...
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powe...
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.
Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.
If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive...
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