Blacks Quote by Jonathan Coleman Download Open image “Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.” — Jonathan Coleman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blacks Card Counter Essentially Necessary Play Privilege Race Racism White White privilege
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it. — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt. — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something like that,… — Edgar Davids Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You know, I dont play the race card a lot. Im half-black, half-white, and Im proud of - my skin is brown. The world… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now. Ms. Yvette… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back;… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of white folks… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I know not… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image