{"quotes":[{"text":"White people now tan to get darker; and black people wear their hair like white people. We are all confused. Deep down we admire each other, but we don't accept it. The silly thing is that the color of one's skin is simply evolution's answer for dealing with different rates of exposure to the sun. How ignorant is it then to judge a person on that?","author":"Manasa Rao","tags":["be-yourself","discrimination","racism","skin-color"],"id":84,"author_id":"Manasa+Rao"},{"text":"Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","flowers","pretty-girl","pretty-girls","race-relations","racism","slavery"],"id":279,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate terror in white America. Perhaps it does, in the most individual sense. But in the collective sense, what this country really fears is black respectability, Good Negro Government. It applauds, even celebrates, Good Negro Government in the unthreatening abstract—The Cosby Show, for instance. But when it becomes clear that Good Negro Government might, in any way, empower actual Negroes over actual whites, then the fear sets in, the affirmative-action charges begin, and birtherism emerges.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["affirmative-action","american-myths","birtherism","black-respectability","good-negro-government","racism","ta-nehisi-coates"],"id":307,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["african-americans","blacks","discomfort","education","learning","race-relations","racism"],"id":356,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["justice","racism","long "],"id":753,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"You cannot fix racism with more racism.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["fix","racism"],"id":1025,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["racism"],"id":1573,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"The white feminist becomes the CEO. The black feminist becomes the exiled rebel. The white feminist speaks about teaching literacy like I should thank her, hold her hand, kiss her for teaching children of darker skin. The black feminist should be grateful. The black feminist wears her natural hair, she is called ‘too rebellious’. The white feminist cuts her hair, she is brave. The white feminist gets featured on TIME. The black feminist is the fine print.","author":"Ijeoma Umebinyuo","tags":["feminism","racism"],"id":2875,"author_id":"Ijeoma+Umebinyuo"},{"text":"Different skin color and same blood color is something that most people don't know, they don't know because arrogance make them racist and ignorant.","author":"Werley Nortreus","tags":["facts","ignorance","racism","sayings"],"id":3327,"author_id":"Werley+Nortreus"},{"text":"Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, ‘Fifty years later, people still believe in this; the whole Neo-Nazi movement. There is absolutely no sense in this. They do it contrary to everything science tells us. Contrary to human goodness or altruism, contrary to rational thinking. And this is fascinating, why?","author":"Eric Bronson","tags":["neonazis","pseudoscience","racism","rationalism","stieg-larson","sven-ove-hansson","the-millennium-trilogy"],"id":3457,"author_id":"Eric+Bronson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":996,"pages":100,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}