“This divide-and-conquer technique serves to redirect struggle against oppressive White Supremacy to competition between Asian Americans and other people of color.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“Racism is any prejudice against someone because of their race when those views are reinforced by systems of power.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“These were people that would have been called “real black” by people I grew up with who often used such terms to point out how “not black” my education, speech, and fashion sense obviously made me.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“What is important is that the impotent hatred of the virulent racist was built and nurtured by a system that has much more insidiously woven a quieter, yet no less violent, version of those same oppressive beliefs into the fabric of our society. The truth is, you don’t even have to “be racist” to be a part of the racist system.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
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