The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That… was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about ‘white men.’
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
Black professors make more than white professors. That’s because we are in demand. I’ll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who ignore the context: the role Wilson played in using war, including Haiti’s racist counterinsurgency, to nationalize white supremacy, militarism, and Christian evangelism.
To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!’
They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.