#racism

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#animals #black #dogs #racism #racism

You can't have capitalism without racism. ↗

— Malcom X

#racism #racism

He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same. ↗

— Danzy Senna

#racism

I jus luvs me some lily white turkey meats". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#racism-in-the-west #racist #racist-philosophy #r-alan-woods

There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's. ↗

— James McBride

#life

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#irony #racism #tolkien #werewolves #humor

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#homophobia #lockstep #racism #sexism #terrorism

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was hailed for legally prohibiting racial discrimination in the private sector, but in effect, the legislation encouraged it. By allowing “racial minorities” to file lawsuits against employers for perceived bigotry, business owners began to view non-whites as riskier labor investments. Employers now had a legal incentive to discriminate. ↗

— Dan Greenup

#business

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#africa #corner #derive #discovery #globe

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#injustice #jim-crow #racism #age