Benjamin Watson Quotes

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

One way of cutting down the crime rate is to abort every Black baby.

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.

In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.

It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.

The most anyone could reasonably say about institutional racism is that the 'evidence is far from conclusive.

I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.

Of course I've felt racism.

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?

A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.