Rachel Dolezal Quotes

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

We're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white.

There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

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

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has to disprove that.

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 question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.