Darius Rucker Quotes

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

Stated briefly, the problem confronting the colored peoples of the world is how to live in freedom, peace and security without being invaded, subjugated, expropriated, persecuted and humiliated by Caucasians justifying their actions by the myth of racial superiority..

There was no need to send Negro troops to Cuba …. It is criminal.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

The segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

It’s time we faced facts. Southern people just don’t like Black people.

… defiling the race line

The Southern Negro is not an incurably ignorant ape. The Southern white masses are not biologically degenerate.

A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

Racism is felt the most definitely in grassroots football.

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat you; we're just not going to talk about it. It's going to go away.' You would look at him like he's crazy. By not talking about racism, it's not going to go away.

No one actually cares about blackface.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.