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Bealmear was willing to destroy houses, but, bless his heart, he wasn’t willing to destroy people. “Under the American idea, we can’t shoot or poison the slum dweller,” he wrote. “We are being forced to either rehouse him or pay the cost of
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“Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Racial indifference and blindness—even more than overt racial hostility—form the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Well-trained police following proper procedure are still going to be arresting people for mostly low-level offenses, and the burden will continue to fall primarily on communities of color because that is how the system is designed to operate—not because of the biases or misunderstandings of officers.”
― The End of Policing
― The End of Policing
“My acceptance of biological racial distinction and rejection of biological racial hierarchy was like accepting water and rejecting its wetness.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
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