Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

“This is a historically black community,” said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. “I’d like it to stay that way.”127”

— Jared Taylor

“As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural…

— J.D. Vance

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather,…

— J.D. Vance

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor…

— David Hume

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

“It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather,…

— J.D. Vance

“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black family during…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“But hillbillies shared many regional characteristics with the southern blacks arriving in Detroit.”

— J.D. Vance

“Ostensibly, they were of the same racial order (whites) as those who dominated economic, political, and social power in local and national arenas. But…

— J.D. Vance