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Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast…

— Ann Coulter

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs.…

— Randall Robinson

Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes…

— Karl Alexander

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites…

— Thomas Sowell

“It is not a secret that most American and Western institutions and workplaces are very much like mountains: the higher one climbs, the whiter…

— Louis Yako

“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

— Karl Alexander

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face…

— Darryl Pinckney

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black…

— David Horowitz

While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.

— Robin DiAngelo

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents…

— Nicholas Kristof

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated…

— Samuel P. Huntington