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[whitaker211-blog]

“I listen to Mumford and Sons and watch Robert Altman movies . Do you really think I’m black enough for the Union? “

-Dear White People

[acrawf12-blog]

I think this quote is a great symbol of how stereotyping works. It shows that stereotyping doesn’t always happen between different races but sometimes it happens between the same race. 

[oceanwells-blog]

“Low Standards for Whites. That’s What’s killing us.”

“Nothing has kept us safe. Why? Because these problems are not caused by OUR choices. The murderous conditions under which we live are not of our own making; they white-authored. Whites insisted that the practices supporting whiteness would not just support whiteness but also do everything imaginable to rob everyone else of life chances.”

-Koritha Mitchell

[mclrke-blog]

This is a very interesting claim by Mitchell. It’s hard not to agree to her point mainly because there is a lot of truth to it. Minorities make up a very small percentage of the Senate. As policy makers, minorities have far less ability to affect change that would allow progress with the goal of equality in mind.

[mclrke-blog]

Kitchen Talk

why does racial “progress” seem to require acts of violence, including the taking of Black lives? -Rachel Faithful

[acrawf12-blog]

Many wore T-shirts pro-claiming “I am Mike Brown” and held signs calling for the need to “Indict America.” These demonstrations led social media users to claim that “#Ferguson is everywhere,” emphasizing the connection between online and offline forms of protest.

Bonilla and Rosa, #Ferguson

[acrawf12-blog]

If Americans used standards, like does this person contribute to society, to the common good, then we’d have to admit that many white people don’t measure up and don’t even try to measure up because they are not expected to.

Koritha Mitchell, Low Standards for Whites

This quote really stuck with me because I’ve never heard anyone say anything like this. The idea that white people have been held to a low standard all this time makes me really think about if I’ve ever been held to a lower standard than other races. 

[acrawf12-blog]

In 1991, a homemade VHS tape of Los Angeles res-ident Rodney King being brutally beaten by four police officers sparked outrage across the country and galvanized thousands in what is widely recognized as one of the most influential examples of citizen journalism in the United States (Allan and Thorsen 2009). Today, 56 percent of the U.S. population carries video-enabled smartphones, and the use of mobile technology is particularly high among African Americans

Bonilla and Rosa

[acrawf12-blog]

If you ask around in Ferguson, you get a slightly different story

John Oliver

[acrawf12-blog]

Oh say can you see, this is the American Dream Young boy, hustlin' Tryna get the wheels in motion But he can be anything at all In America, America

Rihanna, American Oxygen

[acrawf12-blog]

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn’t just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it’s violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Rankine, Blackness as the Second Person

[acrawf12-blog]

You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person

Rankine, from Citizen

[acrawf12-blog]

Black people can't be racist. Prejudice, yes, but not racist. Racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race. Black people can't be racist since we don't stand to benefit from such a system

Samantha White, Dear White People

[laurenschef-blog]

Do you know anything about your people? Your father probably took you fly-fishing, helped you with your geometry homework after coming home from work. You’ll probably do the same.

Ross Gay, Some Instructions (via laurenschef)

This quote stuck with me because I think it’s very true. Nobody thinks about how their own people lives when they’re not affected by things like oppression. 

[acrawf12-blog]

revenge squirming alive in your mouth strangling you quiet from the inside out.

Franny Choi,  To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street

[acrawf12-blog]

"We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom."

-Kanye West, All Falls Down

[acrawf12-blog]

"You think 50 cents reads? Allen Iverson? What you ought to do is put some of your people's streets in that LL Bean satchel."

- Gay, Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Sometimes people are selfish and more worried about getting material items that they like instead of helping those in need.

[acrawf12-blog]

The levels of violence against a people whose ancestors were subjected to the largest forced migration in human history—in the belly of intercontinental slave ships—is shameful beyond words

Richael Faithful, Kitchen Talk

[acrawf12-blog]

“I heard about the attack on innocent people. I couldn’t just stand by.”

James Reeb