Vic Mensa Quotes

The mantra for the Obama campaign and their surrogates has focused on one thing regarding race, which is to take every opportunity to depict the Republican Party a group of rich white racists.

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

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.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and global politics on a scale that I don't think a lot of people imagined.

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

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.

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

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

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

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.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.

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

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

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

A lot of problems that are going on aren't going to get better if we don't talk about it. Race is the biggest one. It's a very, very uncomfortable topic because the biggest part of America was founded on it.

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

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

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

To me, race is the single most divisive factor affecting American society. It's an issue that we are afraid of, that we shy away from, and quite frankly, it amuses me that we are so sensitive to the issue.

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

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

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.