Quotes about White Person

Nipsey Russell

I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

John Edgar Wideman

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

South Carolina

A child, over the age of two years, born of a colored parent, may be bound by the father if he be living in the district, or in case of his death or absence from the district, by the mother, as an apprentice to any respectable white or colored person who is competent to make a contract; a male until he shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and a female until she shall attain the age of eighteen.... Males of the age of twelve years, and females of the age of ten years, shall sign the indenture of apprenticeship, and be bound thereby.... The master shall receive to his own use the profits of the labor of his apprentice.

This law was passed soon after the when South Carolina was controlled by abolitionist recinstructionists. Most blacks were trained for little else but being field hands or house servants. This was one example of several attempts to remedy that situation. Here the concept of indentured servitude was used as that had been a traditional method of an apprentice trading his labor for the opportunity to be educated and trained. It was not long before the racists again gained control of the legislature and via the Black Codes turned this program (like so many others) into variations of chattel slavery without legal ownership. Note that parental consent was required and that both Negroes and Whites could have apprentices. There were a few newly freed slaves that had developed skills and had a trade who took apprentices and some free Blacks from the North went South to start businesses, but soon were obstructed by the old Southern establishment.

Amar Bose

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Barack Obama

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

Audre Lorde

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Peabo Bryson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Alabama

The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro.

Note that Alabama not only had a law against miscegenation but with this constitution made it illegal for a legislature in the future to ever legalize miscegenation. After the Supreme Court made anti-miscegenation laws illegal, Alabama had to amend this part of its constitution.

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