J. D. Vance Quotes

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

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

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

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

In America, many marginally competent or flatly incompetent whites are hired every day -some because their white skin suits the conscious or unconscious racial preference of their employers. The white children of alumni are often grandfathered into elite universities in what can only be seen as a residual benefit of historic white privilege.

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

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

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.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

The Southern institution of racial segregation or racial separation was the correct, self-evident truth which arose from the chaos and confusion of the Reconstruction period. Separation promotes racial harmony. It permits each race to follow its own pursuits, and its own civilization. Segregation is not discrimination

When we finally got school buses for African American students in Georgia, the state legislature ordained that the front bumpers be painted black. Not even the school busses could be equal.

There is a racist virus in the American blood stream...

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

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

Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

The media really only pays attention to white people. I think America is really racist.

It is a lie that America is racist

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers.