Black people Quote by Bradley Campbell

“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with the daily…

— Richard Wright

When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [.…

— John Trudell

“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional…

— Richard Wright

Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity.…

— Claire Fox

“As Alcoff (1998: 18) argues, ‘Racism appears to be deeply sedimented into white psyches in a process that is newly reenforced [sic] each day.’ This”

— Clare Land

For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at…

— Tavi Gevinson

“Victims of a devastating trauma may never be the same biologically. [emphasis added].” Trauma”

— Ann Frederick

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison pipeline, foster…

— Cori Bush

“Perhaps the finest--and certainly the most eloquent--discussion of the dilemma of victimism is Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, in which he describes…

— Charles J. Sykes

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in…

— Shelby Steele

“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,”

— Ibram X. Kendi