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All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.
The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black Americans face.
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
I'm not one to spend my life asking the question, 'Is there racism in America?' Certainly there is. But I want to do something about it.
Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.
Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore.
I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.
The truth is that those at the top of British football do not care about getting rid of racism, they just don't want to hear it or see it.
The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be covered as such.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
False allegations of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and now lying each have their own chapter in the Trump takedown playbook.
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.
In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.
One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.
There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has to disprove that.
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.
I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.
Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
Racism hasn't been an everyday thing in my life, overt racism. There is obviously structural differences, but hate? I've not really had that.
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.
More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
Democrats know 'racism' doesn't exist, but they use it to silence white conservatives and to instill fear in blacks and motivate them to vote.
Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.
Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.
It's a life issue more than anything when you're dealing with racism anywhere... It's a life issue - bigger than sports, bigger than football.
The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.