Thundercat Quotes

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I grew up in a predominantly white community - Hinsdale, Illinois - and given that, I feel blessed because I could still count my experiences with blatant racism on two hands. I thought racism was the substitute teacher picking on you because she assumes that you're a delinquent, and she doesn't know you have the highest score in the class.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

Of course I've felt racism.

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.