Charlamagne tha God Quotes

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems that people of color have faced all our lives is through honesty and transparency.

Are we that self-centered to believe no one in the world is aware of racism right now? That, as athletes, we solve the real issues by using our platforms to speak? We don't need to say more. We need to find a way to achieve more. Protesting during an anthem, wearing T-shirts is great, but we need to see real actions being put in to the works.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.

The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

Anti-racism is one of our central values and there was a time not long ago when the left actively confronted anti-Semitism.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.