Racism And Culture Quotes

#1. This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

Justin Simien

#2. In addition, historical interpretations of this period in China have been shaped by Karl Marx's writings on this subject. Despite his anti-imperialist stance, Marx often uses racist expressions, such as "barbarous"and "hereditary stupidity," to describe Chinese culture and people.

Tonglin Lu

#3. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...

Ravi Howard

#4. We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.

Bryant McGill

#5. What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

Henry Rollins

#6. They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS.

Miya Yamanouchi

#8. Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

Steven D. Levitt

#9. The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

Jesse Jackson

#10. It's infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed.

Janelle Gray

#11. When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#12. When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther's man country's hero a tyrant, a dictator or a murderer and favor the next just to divide and conquer the people.

Henry Johnson Jr

#13. Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.

Robert Wald Sussman

#14. Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Auliq Ice

#15. Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

Kip Fulbeck

#16. What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

Aleksandra Layland

#17. Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me.

Philip K. Dick

#18. I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#19. If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.

Henry Johnson Jr

#20. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...

Ravi Howard

#21. Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

Auliq Ice

#22. The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.

Marian Wright Edelman

#23. The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

G. Willow Wilson

#25. It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world.

Paul Beatty

#26. Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Tim Wise

#27. In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.

Rita B. Dandridge

#28. I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea.

Neil Peart

#29. While it has become "cool" for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

Bell Hooks

#30. ...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

James Baldwin

#31. The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But if you look outside this country, it's a problem all around the planet.

Stephan James

#32. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Tim Wise

#33. They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#34. Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

Martin Jacques

#35. An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Darnell Lamont Walker