Eric Reid Quotes

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

I think as a black woman, we have a lot of colorism going on around us, and we have a lot of racism as well.

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

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

He was murdered by every member of the gospel who has remained silent about racial discrimination—who has hidden behind the stained glass windows of his church.. He was murdered by every Negro who accepted segregation.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.... The Negro is going to get justice or this society will be ripped apart.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

Ronald Reagan is the President who is more responsible than any for the fact that white racism is both tolerated and even fashionable again in America.

Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.