Ron Stallworth Quotes

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

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.

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.

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...

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

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

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.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

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.

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

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

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

Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn't mean racism has disappeared. It's all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

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.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.

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

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.