Rumors Spread Quote by Rick Perlstein

“gun crime: it wasn’t equally distributed throughout black America. Rather, it was concentrated among the poorest blacks, who were forced into living conditions that…

— James Forman Jr

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

— Chris Rock

“The white mobs followed blacks into the surrounding forests and marshes and shot many victims in the back as they fled. Several bodies were…

— E.R. Bills

“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”

— James Baldwin

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“CONFESSIONS OF A GANGSTER A former gang member talks about racial violence from way back in the eighties. “It started out innocently,” Jones, 39,…

— Colin Flaherty

“They shoot the white girl first.”

— Toni Morrison

“Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas; now…

— Michael S. Kimmel

“What I didn’t understand at the time was that the other kids genuinely had no clue what a white person was. Black kids in…

— Trevor Noah

“These were not idle threats. Suspected labor agents were arrested routinely whenever a trainload of African Americans left or when the fields were empty…

— Carol Anderson

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality…

— Lisa Bloom

“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us…

— Junius Williams