Chris Crutcher Quotes
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. Greenwillow Books, 2001.
Strictly anti-Islamic discrimination is not racism as Muslems are represented in every race and nationality in the world.
His reference was to ethnic Indians and Chinese living in Kenya and other countries of Africa. Asians are a minority group in African countries and the legally sanctioned discrimination against them is part of an ugly type of discrimination which still exists.
He was referring to the people of India and not the American Indians for who he also had little respect like almost any minority.
He was a Senator from Pennsylvania when he made this remark.
Chris Crutcher is an American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.