Bobby Rush Quotes

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Barack Obama is a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

When you educate a negro, you educate a candidate for the penitentiary or spoil a good field hand.

Ronald Reagan is the President who is more responsible than any for the fact that white racism is both tolerated and even fashionable again in America.

He shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

He missed that whole civics lesson about slavery or Jim Crow

It doesn't even feel like racism is real. It just feels like the weirdest ploy, like we're just being had on so many levels. It's even kind of funny when you think about it. A reason not to like someone is 'because you're black.' C'mon, man. How dumb is that?

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.'

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life, but with the product of these conditions, the Negro himself.

Your not black enough. If you are black, all you have to do is wear a dashiki and pump your fist, and you’ll get all the money you want.

There are people out there like Fox News who, every time a Black person complains in public of how we are treated in our society, is accused of “playing the race card.”

… defiling the race line

Black people were so angry at me. But we need to get some distance from the binary opposition we were raised in: evil white people and good black people. The world just isn't like that.