#black

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#been #black #had #his #killing

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#black family #dream #equal #everybody #everything

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#black #cases #chances #first #give

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#called #couple #else #even #everybody

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#bigot #blacks #catholics #dad #even

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black #booker #business #business owners #entrepreneurship

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black community #community #disintegration #integration #pay

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black community #bond #class #community #divided

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges. ↗

— Ed Smith

#beyond #black #black community #clubs #community