Black people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to…

— Lance Crouther

“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

“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

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. Ironically,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers who”

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

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

— Angie Thomas

“By treating blacks as inferior, such policies were an affront to their dignity. This would be true even if these policies had not been…

— John Corvino

“Walker identified and decried America’s favorite racist pastime: denying Blacks access to education and jobs and then calling their resultant impoverished state “natural.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Current black leaders preach racial hatred and welfare dependency, not peace and independence. They earn their fat salaries by stirring up the racial pot…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next…

— Ibram X. Kendi