Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Planters of impossibilities suddenly became planters of possibilities when instructing imported Africans on the complexities of proslavery theory, racist ideas, tobacco production, skilled trades,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Rich planters learned from Bacon’s Rebellion that poor Whites had to be forever separated from enslaved Blacks. They divided and conquered by creating more…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“Of course, racist planters could not admit that Black runaways were self-reliant enough to effect their own safety and happiness—to be free.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one…

— Colson Whitehead

“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social…

— J.D. Vance

“Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants”

— Paul Theroux

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…

— Edward E. Baptist

“Wherever the white man goes he attempts to impose the bases of his ordered civilization. He puts down tribal war, he wages truceless combat…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard