Good intentions Quote by Mat Johnson

“Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections. Like all diseases, it had to be analyzed at a microscopic…

— Mat Johnson

“Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.”

— James Taranto

“The next time a woman of whatever color, or a dark-skinned person of whatever sex aspires to be president, the way should be a…

— Shirley Chisholm

“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars on baseless…

— Carol Anderson

“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.”

— Jabari Asim

“As someone possessed of perhaps the best raw political instincts of any Republican in his generation, Trump had intuited, correctly, that a racist attack…

— Joshua Green

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

“We can't simply point out racial injustices, but for the sake of the gospel work to heal them.”

— Jerry Kinard

“The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African heritage, slavery…

— Matt Taibbi

“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates