For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
Tavi Gevinson
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Does racism exist in this country? Sure. But I think the overwhelming majority of Americans who care about this country do not care about skin color.
Ryan Frazier
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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
Tahar Rahim
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Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.
Mario Balotelli
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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.
Sue Monk Kidd
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Rand Paul
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If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
Martin Jacques
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I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.
Sidney Poitier
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
Patricia Ireland
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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
Lynda Barry
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No single race has a monopoly on racism.
Tomi Lahren
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Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
Opal Tometi
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I'm not one to spend my life asking the question, 'Is there racism in America?' Certainly there is. But I want to do something about it.
Kenny Leon
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks
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The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
Octavia E. Butler
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The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.
Killer Mike
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As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives.
Robin DiAngelo
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
Malcolm X
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There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
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This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'
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Racism is real in this country.
Kamala Harris
RacismCountryReal
Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.
Kevin DeYoung
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The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism.
Rod Lurie
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