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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.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

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

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

[T]he agents are white Southerners who have been influenced by the mores of the community. To maintain their status, they have to be friendly with the local police and people who have been promoting segregation.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

It is impossible for white men to live with the coloured races without adopting a conviction that…they have the right to command the services of the less civilized.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Like it or not, most things in this country are run by white males.

The essence of racism is prejudice coupled with power ... Our primary experience is one of white privilege, even in places where whites may be a minority in the surrounding population.

… we clung to the belief... that our white skin made us "better" than all other people. And this belief comforted us, for we felt worthless and weak when confronted with authorities who had cheapened nearly all we held dear, except our skin color. There, in the land of Epidermis, every one of us was a little king.

Barack Obama is an educated fool. He is viewed as the white man in blackface in the community.

Champion of White Men's Rule and Woman's Virtue

The interests of the white working class have often been used by white political elites to stave off challenges to inequality and discrimination by black folk and other minority groups.