Jay Sean Quotes

Hollywood's racist.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

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.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

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.

Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

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.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

This county was formed for the white man, not for the black man.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

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.

… nothing less than the legalization of racial discrimination