Maria Le

“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.”
― Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

“Racial indifference and blindness—even more than overt racial hostility—form the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“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.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“A racist is someone who is supporting a racist policy by their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist