Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it… — Clint Smith Copy Share
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,… — Clint Smith Copy Share
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private… — Clint Smith Copy Share
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who… — Clint Smith Copy Share
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent… — Clint Smith Copy Share
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit… — Clint Smith Copy Share
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have… — Clint Smith Copy Share
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on… — Clint Smith Copy Share
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Copy Share
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because… — Clint Smith Copy Share
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Copy Share
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith Copy Share
In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were… — Clint Smith Copy Share
If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your… — Clint Smith Copy Share
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is. — Clint Smith Copy Share
