Sandy Hudson > Quotes

“Anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, and other forms of racism persist in part because of the idea that there is one version of history, which white people have exclusive dominion over. It is expressed through the Eurocentric dismissal of oral histories and the reliance on the written word as irrefutable truth. It is expressed through an almost scientific reliance on the “white encoders of history” to tell us “truths,” even when we accept that there are obvious reasons as to why we should not rely on white supremacist historians to teach us Black or a Indigenous history”
― Sandy Hudson, Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

“In fact, a major form in which anti-Blackness operates in Canada is the active and passive refusal to collect and provide information.”
― Sandy Hudson, Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada