African Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“White people find it extremely hard to live in an environment they don't control.”

— Coleman A. Young

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“African Americans, like other groups, have always tried to translate upward class mobility into geographic mobility, but remain physically and psychically close to the…

— Mary Pattillo

“He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“f white Americans were to leave the country tomorrow, in ten years -America would be a ghetto. You can see the truth of this…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP WITH WHITE PEOPLE?”

— Debby Irving

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

“White people can be so unself-conscious. It’s offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.”

— Barbara Browning

“Whites don't know a goddamned thing about what's gone wrong here. They say 'Detroit had this, Detroit had that… But economic power is still…

— Arthur L. Johnson

“you can’t find a white guy who can amass the rudimentary requirements needed to be hired as a local mover.”

— Finn Murphy