{"quotes":[{"text":"It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["blacklivesmatter","blackpower","history","malcolmx","race","racism","white-privilege"],"id":7730,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re the standard against which everyone else is measured. You’re like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a “woman doctor” or they will say they went to see “the doctor.” People will tell you they have a “gay colleague” or they’ll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a “Black friend,” but when that same person simply mentions a “friend,” everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn’t have the word “woman” or “gay” or “minority” in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses “literature,” “history” or “political science.”This invisibility is political.","author":"Michael S. Kimmel","tags":["angry-white-males","angry-young-man","class","loss-of-privilege","privilege","purple-pill","race","race-and-class","the-red-pill","white-privilege"],"id":36323,"author_id":"Michael+S.+Kimmel"},{"text":"Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.","author":"Robert Winder","tags":["antisemitism","britain","british","oppression","racism","white-privilege"],"id":42423,"author_id":"Robert+Winder"},{"text":"Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your parents bought was on the market because the sellers didn't want my mama in the neighborhood. Maybe the good grades that eventually led you to law school were possible because your mama didn't have to work eighteen hours a day, and was there to read to you at night, or make sure you did your homework. How often do you remind yourself how lucky you are that you own your house, because you were able to build up equity through generations in a way families of color can't? How often do you open your mouth at work and think how awesome it is that no one's thinking you're speaking for everyone with the same skin color you have? How hard is it for you to find the greeting card for your baby's birthday with a picture of a child that has the same color skin as her? How many times have you seen a painting of Jesus that looks like you? Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["prejudice","race","white-privilege"],"id":45189,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biases","bigot","bigotry","blame","blame-game","discrimination","economy","immigrants","immigration","minorities","minority","minority-rights","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-in-america","racism","self-awareness","white-nationalism","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":64766,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.","author":"Tim Wise","tags":["american-culture","black-and-white","black-history","george-zimmerman","hypocricy","privilege","race-relations","racism","trayvon-martin","white-privilege","willful-ignorance"],"id":65099,"author_id":"Tim+Wise"},{"text":"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bigotry","discrimination","first-amendment","free-speech","freedom-of-speech","hate","homophobia","racism","white-privilege"],"id":69337,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil-rights","conflict-resolution","confronting-privilege","empathy","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","oppression","oppressors","privilege","racism","social-justice","tension","white-privilege"],"id":82153,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there was any loss.","author":"Robin DiAngelo","tags":["deconstruction","racial-division","racism","segregation","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":101898,"author_id":"Robin+DiAngelo"},{"text":"People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together to share something about their heritage that we’re excluding white people. But that’s not the reality.","author":"Simon S. Tam","tags":["race","racism","racism-in-america","reverse-racism","white-privilege"],"id":110505,"author_id":"Simon+S.+Tam"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}