Bob Beckel Quotes

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

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

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

Ours has not been a racially democratic society for 300 years.

He missed that whole civics lesson about slavery or Jim Crow

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

So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

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

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes

The diversity industry needs friction to survive, so it perpetually reworks the definition of racism.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.

The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.

People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.

Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.