Jesse Wente > Quotes

“When racism doesn't harm you personally, noticing it requires conscious effort, or at least empathy -- just as acknowledging that you benefit from racism requires you to acknowledge its existence.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

“Cultural appropriation is an act of immaturity. Canada needs to grow out of it.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

“We were here long before you, Canada. We will be here long after.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

“All it took to finally achieve this change was the single largest racial equity movement since the heyday of the 1960s fight for civil rights. All it cost were the lives of far too many Black and Indigenous people at the hands and weapons of the police.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

“White people, you can depoliticize and retreat to a place where the rest of us can't go, and there's a certain kind of power in that fact.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance