Joey Oliver > Quotes

“George Floyd wasn't a convincing victim anymore. We had seen too many men that looked like Floyd in our lives, and we'd witnessed a very similar pattern of behavior from each of them. Not too long ago, we had desperately wanted to blindly commit to the idea that we were all exactly the same on the inside. But the more we saw, the more certain we'd become that we are not all the same. It was obvious that the outcomes in society were mostly rooted in group intelligence disparities, not from trauma over a pancake company's racist logo. And yet, almost nobody was ready to step into the arena and talk about this candidly yet. An honest conversation about race was still social suicide.”
― Joey Oliver, American History Z: Gen Z's Journey to the Far Right