Matt Mead Quotes

Not liking me because I'm black is so juvenile and immature, because there's many reasons to not like me.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

I am astonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—I might almost say hatred—which the bulk of the whites have for their black neighbours.

Racism, n. Egotism taking the form of a delusion that one's own race is less depraved and idiotic than the criminal tendencies and gross stupidity exhibited by another.

The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

What right do white racist, who believe their race is superior, have for complaining about black racists, who see something special in their own race? What right do black racists, who see a special character in their race, have for complaining about white racists?

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a white man likes him or not.

Race is everything.

So far as this particular negro is personally concerned, he may be dismissed as beneath contempt. There is a far graver side to the matter. This negro is regarded as a leader; he both reflects the sentiments of his race, and his utterance react upon his followers with an effect that was made sufficiently plain by the "vigorous applause" with which his slander was greeted by the negroes in the gallery. As the blatant mouthing of a mere negro, White's utterances are not worth notice; as a fresh manifestation of negroism, of what the negro's attitude is toward the white man, now and always, its significance should not be allowed to escape us.

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

I had no expectations of white people at all.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

We all judge people.

A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.