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

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“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”

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“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.”

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“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness…

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“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.”

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“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the…

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“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,”

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“Racist intentions—not policies—became covert after the 1960s.”

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“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the…

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“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.”

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“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have primarily created and defended discriminatory policies out of political self-interest—not racist ideas. Capitalists seeking to increase profit margins have primarily created and defended discriminatory policies out of economic self-interest—not racist ideas. Cultural professionals, including theologians, artists, scholars, and…

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

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“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.”

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