Paul Mooney Quotes

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

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

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

There is a racist virus in the American blood stream...

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

You are, in fact, stigmatized as a racist, because, after all, you have know acknowledged that your nation practiced racism explicitly for four centuries. And, now, since the '60s, white Americans have been grappling with the stigma, trying prove that they are not racist, to prove the negative.

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

Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

I'm not one to spend my life asking the question, 'Is there racism in America?' Certainly there is. But I want to do something about it.

I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

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.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

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 acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.