Racism Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other “color-blind” New…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis]…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were…

— Michelle Alexander

“Just like Supreme Court justices, we as a nation have avoided contemplating remedies because we’ve indulged in the comfortable delusion that our segregation has…

— Richard Rothstein

“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply a "taint"…

— Derrick Bell

“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who…

— Lauren Oliver

“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance into the…

— Richard Rothstein

“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how the state-mandated…

— Derrick Bell

“Private discrimination also played a role, but it would have been considerably less effective had it not been embraced and reinforced by government.”

— Richard Rothstein

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy