Mitch Landrieu Quotes

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.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

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

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...

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

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.

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.

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

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

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

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

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.

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.

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

Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

Our duty is to fight! Then we can adjust the problems that remain in the life of the colored man.

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

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.