Jean-Francois Cope Quotes

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

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

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

Of course I've felt racism.

As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting, and it is traumatizing.

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.

I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

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

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

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.

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.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

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.

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

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.

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