College student Quote by Dennis Prager

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving…

— Dennis Prager

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in America who,…

— Nadia Owusu

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats…

— Joan Wallach Scott

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

“Yes it is true . . . America is a racist country.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“All over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans themselves, so…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them worked on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but…

— John McWhorter