Aftermath Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that…

— Christopher Lasch

“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black poor and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty'…

— J. D. Vance

“The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted…

— Mary Pattillo

There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many…

— Ayana Mathis

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The…

— William Julius Wilson

“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare. We avoid…

— Michelle Alexander

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly…

— Jonathan Kozol

“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of being black…

— Trevor Noah

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor.…

— Michael Eric Dyson