Justin Simien Quotes

Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Resolved, that the Government of the United States, the nation with its institutions, of right belong to the white men who now possess them.

I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

People on the Left get a pass when it comes to condemning white Americans.

White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.

Racism is just the symptom, but the fight is economic.

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

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.

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

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

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

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

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

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.