Systemic Bias Quotes

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture.

Meritocracy is a system of segregation.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am telling stories about people of color.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Minority students became the victims of low expectations.

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of malice and violence and ill will. It's been that way since black people were brought to this country.

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.