Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

The average white person now feels that anti-white bias is a bigger problem than other forms of racial discrimination.

Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and global politics on a scale that I don't think a lot of people imagined.

When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.