I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. —Dick Gregory More about this quote Tags: poverty race Christmas Santa Claus whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. —Bill Cosby More about this quote Tags: perception race blackness whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. —Peggy McIntosh More about this quote Tags: privilege whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think it's helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest homicide rates and the highest incarceration rates and the highest rates of mental illness; and that everything that was said about them in those days is now being said about Salvadorans, Dominicans, African Americans, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Cambodians in our inner cities. —Tom Hayden More about this quote Tags: history perspective poverty America whiteness immigration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email