Money Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Planters responded to labor demands and laborers’ unity by purchasing more African people and luring Whiteness away from Blackness.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“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

“The whites got what they deserved. For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by…

— Colson Whitehead

“The white rulers fight filth and disease, stop tribal wars, and stamp out superstitious abominations.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“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

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“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

“There are winnings in bringing home the bacon that is a great manifestation of superiority in its entirety.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or people he…

— Tom Cain

“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic,…

— George S. Schuyler