Racism Is Taught Quotes

#1. Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Jay-Z

#2. Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics.

Alex Haley

#3. Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing
that was me.

Louise Erdrich

#4. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.

Junius Williams

#5. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

Dominick Cruz

#6. My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

James Earl Jones

#7. Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.

Denis Leary

#8. When I get the ball, for some reason I see holes. I'm not really sure how.

Mike Bass

#9. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

Peggy McIntosh

#10. The streets will teach you about racism and capitalism and survival of the fittest. Don't worry about that. The only thing you've got to worry about is if you've got enough cold-blooded ambition to apply the lessons you get taught.

Snoop Dogg

#11. The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Steve Jobs

#12. i think that book just gave me a hangover

Me

#13. My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

Lizzo

#14. The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

Susan L. Taylor

#15. It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.

Michelle Horst

#16. It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.

Betsy Lerner

#17. We don't come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people's minds from those evils.

Kerry Washington

#18. Ife can sure be a downer.

Beatrice Sparks

#19. I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Peggy McIntosh

#20. I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

Leslie Ford

#21. Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.

Ruby Bridges

#22. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?

Rebecca McNutt