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44709be
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"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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prejudice
racism
insularity
pride
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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53b0e54
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"Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness."
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racism
negro
racist
white
race
separation
justice
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John Howard Griffin |
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aee0b61
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We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own. Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world.
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racism
blacks
whites
civil-rights-movement
race-relations
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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ded5850
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America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.
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racism
slavery
working-class
racism-in-america
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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b358c16
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There is no collective slavery revenge fantasy among black people, but I am certain, if there were one, it would not be about white people, not at all.
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racism
slavery
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Roxane Gay |
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d3ef99a
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"Let us have peace." But there was the black man looming like a dark ghost on the horizon. He was the child of force and greed, and the father of wealth and war. His labor was indispensable, and the loss of it would have cost many times the cost of the war. If the Negro has been silent, his very presence would have announced his plight. He was not silence. He was in usual evidence. He was writing petitions, making speeches, parading with returned soldiers, reciting his adventures as slave and freeman. Even dumb and still, he must be noticed. His poverty has to be relieved, and emancipation in his case had to mean poverty. If he had to work, he had to have land and tools. If his labor was in reality to be free labor, he had to have legal freedom and civil rights. His ignorance could only be removed by that very education which the law of the South had long denied him and the custom of the North had made exceedingly difficult. Thus civil status and legal freedom, food, clothes and tools, access to land and help to education, were the minimum demands of four million laborers, and these demands no man could ignore, Northerner or Southerner, Abolitionist or Copperhead, laborer or captain of industry. How did the nation face this paradox and dilemma?"
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racism
reconstruction
class
race
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W E B Du Bois |
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aeb311f
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You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...
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racism
opinions
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Susan Cooper |
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b42f73e
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That's what the welfare people want,' Tranquilino gritted his teeth, 'to have us on welfare and to have our women working. Then they can point to our broken families and say the mexicano is a lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch!
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racism
poverty-cycle
class-warfare
welfare
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Rudolfo Anaya |
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60a6844
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"Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?" "Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color." "Cross on the green and not in between."
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racism
race-relations
race
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Paul Beatty |
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5cad5f4
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"We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some enlightened common sense. Otherwise, we'll never have the right answers..."
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racism
tolerance
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John Howard Griffin |
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5af0dd0
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& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.
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caste-system
casual-brutality
racism
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David Mitchell |
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0eeb3a9
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Although a handful of progressive individuals favoured independence from Spain, Cuba's economic elite was conservative, fearful of the economic and social consequences of a break with the colonial motherland. Without Spanish support, the planters would not be able to sustain the slave system on which their economic power was based, nor would they be strong enough to crush slave revolts
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racism
slavery
human-trafficking
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Richard Gott |
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8d5444b
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He often reflected on his reluctance to extend the struggle to the Caribbean, and wrote in one of his many letters that it was 'more important to have peace than to liberate these islands. An independent Cuba would take a great deal of work.' Even Bolivar was not immune to the belief that a liberated Cuba might become another 'Republic of Haiti.
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racism
latinoamérica
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Richard Gott |
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fac5b4a
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Children's books can break [the] silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and defended by cultural gatekeepers.
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racism
classic-literature
librarian
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Philip Nel |
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e0b3a20
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"Son," my father said of Obama, "you know the country got to be messed up for them folks to give him the job."
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racism
politics
presidents
race-relations
race
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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189c935
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The implications of the true story are existential and corrosive to our larger national myth. To understand that the most costly war in this country's history was launched in direct opposition to everything the country claims to be, to understand that this war was the product of centuries of enslavement, which is to see an even longer, more total war, is to alter the accepted conception of America as a beacon of freedom. How does one face this truth or forge a national identity out of it?
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racism
war
slavery
freedom
race-relations
race
mythology
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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fa1bb36
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When it becomes clear that Good Negro Government might, in some way, empower actual Negroes over actual whites, then the fear sets in, the affirmative-action charges begin, and birtherism emerges. And this is because, at its core, those American myths have never been colorless. They can not be extricated from the theory that a class of people carry peonage in their blood. That peon class provided the foundation on which all those myths and conceptions were build. And as much as we can theoretically imagine a seamless black integration into the American myth, the white part of this country remembers the myth as it was conceived.
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racism
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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c1e303f
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The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws.
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violence
racism
america
politics
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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14d1743
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The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
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prejudice
racism
slavery
hr-40
white-guilt
institutionalized-racism
reparations
whiteness
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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ac0c17d
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Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, progressive Cubans were happy to downplay the survival of the Indians since those who promoted , and sought to praise and promote Cuba's Indian heritage, were usually conservative racists who wanted to glorify the Indian past and downgrade the contribution of the black African element in the population. Novelists in the nineteeth century, anxios to preserve Hispanic culture, often sought Indian images for their historical fiction as a counterweight to the arguments of those who exalted Cuba's African heritage.
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racism
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Richard Gott |
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5848bee
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Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant Southerner hates the Negro, the workingmen fear his competition, the money-makers wish to use him as a laborer, some of the educated see a menace in his upward development, while others--usually the sons of the masters--wish to help him to rise.
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racism
race-relations
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
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8488f36
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They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a moment; they do not expect to see the bias and prejudices of years disappear at the blast of a trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the way for a people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them; that the way for a people to gain respect is not by continually belittling and ridiculing themselves; that, on the contrary, Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as well as white boys.
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racism
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
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2ebf360
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The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist.
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racism
individuality
idealism
totalitarinism
individual
leaders
genocide
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Philip Gourevitch |
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1d2c8ef
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"I feel obliged to explain that I thought for quite a few years that I had lost my daughter to pirates during the Phoenix incident," she said. "The first thing anyone knew, the legitimate colony was gone and heavyworlders had moved in. I harbored a very deep resentment that they were living on that bright and shiny new planet while I grieved for my daughter. It's affected my good judgment somewhat ever since." Lunzie swallowed. "I apologize for indulging myself with such a shockingly biased generalization. It's the pirates I should hate, and I do." [...] "But I'm learning. I'm learning. I'm especially learning [...] I'm gradually learning to accept each person as an individual, and not as just a representative of their subgroup or species. Each one is individual to his, her, itself and can't be lumped in with his, her or its peer group."
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racism
generalization
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Anne McCaffrey |
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07c8ad1
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The development of the sugar industry was to have a significant impact on the politics and culture of the island, since it lead to a huge increase in Cuba's slave population. This in turn helped to fuel the growth of the island's white racism, fueled by the migrants from Santo Domingo and Louisiana. The image of the Haitian revolution, and the inflated memory of its excesses -- echoed not just in Cuba, but in the United States and Latin America as well -- was to hover over Cuba throughout the nineteenth century and beyond, a permanent intimation of what might happen to the white population if faulty political or administrative decisions were made. Many whites in Cuba felt that they lived permanently in the shadow of a slave rebellion on the Haitian model.
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racism
slavery
sugar
haiti
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Richard Gott |
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6e7e09b
|
The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in the same way; and this must produce a peculiar wrenching of the soul, a peculiar sense of doubt and bewilderment. Such a double life, with double thoughts, double duties, and double social classes, must give rise to double words and double ideals, and tempt the mind to pretence or revolt, to hypocrisy or radicalism.
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racism
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
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966b82e
|
As negroes moved from unionism toward political action, white labor in the North not only moved in the opposite direction from political action to union organization, but also evolved the American Blindspot for the Negro and his problems. It lost interest and vital touch with Southern labor and acted as though the millions of laborers in the South did not exist. Thus labor went into the great war of 1877 against Northern capitalists unsupported by the black man, and the black man went his way in the South to strengthen and consolidate his power, unsupported by Northern labor. Suppose for a moment that Northern labor had stopped the bargain of 1876 and maintained the power of the labor vote in the South; and suppose that the Negro with new and dawning consciousness of the demands of labor as differentiated from the demands of capitalists, had used his vote more specifically for the benefit of white labor, South and North?
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racism
working-class
solidarity
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W E B Du Bois |
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32fcdeb
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Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
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racism
inequality
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Steven D. Levitt |
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cac59ef
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In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.
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racism
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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f6b17aa
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Jewish guy did not know this, but 'oppression olympics' is what smart liberal Americans say, to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up.
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racism
politics
liberalism
racism-in-america
ideology
oppression
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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5d2fdf3
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A common thread that weaves the stories of all the captives together is race--one racial group attacking another. Many innocent people were simply trying to live their ordinary lives when another group decided it was justifiable to use violence to rob, beat, murder, kidnap, sometimes mutilate, and enslave others and their loved ones.
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racism
war
history
innocents
southwest
race
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Noel Marie Fletcher |
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5464541
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How stupid she had been ever to have thought that she could marry and perhaps have children in a land where every dark child was handicapped at the start by the shroud of color! She saw, suddenly, the giving birth to little, helpless, unprotesting Negro children as a sin, an unforgivable outrage. More black folk to suffer indignities. More dark bodies for mobs to lynch.
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racism
blacks
race-relations
race
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Nella Larsen |
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a0adb53
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...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.
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racism
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James Baldwin |