Justin Simien Quotes

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

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.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

Race is everything.

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

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

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

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

I never though much about race.

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.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

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.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

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

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

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.

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

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

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.