Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

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.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

The doublespeak of the American neoconservatives who conjured up the term "reverse racism" (was) to attack those who fought against White supremacy. This so-called ‘colorblind’ ideology has reversed the gains made during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and is actually commonsense among White Americans. It informs policymakers from the White House to the Supreme Court and has been used to justify the retreat from egalitarianism.

Barack Obama is an educated fool. He is viewed as the white man in blackface in the community.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the course of my life.

We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

I tell you what: I bet Jerry Jones would not trade places with a 75-year black man in Chicago. I bet Joel Klatt would not trade places with a 30-year old black guy from Chicago or Watts. I bet he wouldn't do that. You know why? It's great to know that I'm white and a male in America.

This is a country that was founded on racism. It was built on racism. It still continues to thrive through wealth disparity, and housing disparity is all built on the backs of racism.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

The only real thing I took away from the military is that it just reinforced all the things I already thought about the underbelly of America, like how racist it is. So, it didn't really affect my music literally, but it affected the way I work on it.

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

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!

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.