Henry Rollins Quotes

If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

Donald Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen, part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America's first black president.

Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.

Some people in this nation believe that race is a significant factor in the constant attacks against President Obama. Others believe that these attacks reflect only the normal level of criticism aimed at the occupant of the White House.

I am astonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—I might almost say hatred—which the bulk of the whites have for their black neighbours.

[Some Americans] choose simply to deny that a black President actually exists. One in four Americans (and more than half of all Republicans) believe Obama was not born in this country, and thus is an illegitimate president. More than a dozen state legislatures have introduced “birther bills” demanding proof of Obama’s citizenship as a condition for putting him on the 2012 ballot. 18 percent of Republicans believe Obama to be a Muslim. The goal of all this is to delegitimize Obama’s Presidency. If Obama is not truly American, then America has still never had a Black President.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

I think the fans are human, and they have their own mind. If someone doesn't like a person because of their skin color, it doesn't matter if you fight or you deliver mail; they're going to have that opinion.

The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.

Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

Some Americans question Donald Trump's legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let's not forget that one of Donald Trump's claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy - more than that, the citizenship - of President Barack Obama.

Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

The Tea Party was regularly smeared in media as a violent, bigoted, 'astroturf' movement hellbent on opposing the first black president because of his skin color rather than his big-government policies. These classifications were made without evidence, and there were many more.

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

For whatever reason, the people that don't appreciate Duke basketball or don't pull for Duke basketball, they have a tendency to vilify one of the players. And a lot of times, it might be a white guy. And has it happened over and over in the past? Yes.

This is what the Republican party stands for, though: racism.

Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross.

Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.