"We're all in the race game, so to……" — Robert Jensen
"We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy and support racial projects aimed at a democratic distibution of power and a just distribution of resources. Or we can claim to not be interested in race, in which case we almost certainly will end up tacitly supporting white supremacy by virtue of our unwillingness to confront it. In a society in which white supremacy has structured every aspect of our world, there can be no claim to neutrality."
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13 Quotes by Robert Jensen
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The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
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This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty…
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How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values…
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People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
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