Rachel Simmons Quotes

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism and how it exists in America today.

There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

The diversity industry needs friction to survive, so it perpetually reworks the definition of racism.

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

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?

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.