Covert Racism Quotes

“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they were the targets of hate mongers who wanted them dead, they were at least credited with being alive. Northern whites with their public smiles of liberal acceptance and their private behavior of utter rejection wearied and angered the immigrants.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomfortable. They're worse, more dangerous than those who speak their minds, because they don't know what they're capable of.”
― Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

“Cognitive schemas—thought structures—influence what we notice and how the things we notice get interpreted.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness