Jodie Turner-Smith Quotes

We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down to the 1924 Immigration Act to keep non-Europeans out.

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

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

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life, but with the product of these conditions, the Negro himself.

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.

I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.

Racism plagued America throughout the '60s, into the '70s, through the '80s; it continued in the '90s and in the first decade of the new millennium; and it persists today.

We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

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.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

This is a racist country.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

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