DeRay Mckesson Quotes

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

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

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

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

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.

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

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

The average white person now feels that anti-white bias is a bigger problem than other forms of racial discrimination.

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.

I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.

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.

The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black people as well, and the roles they're meant to play... I'm aware of it, as a person of color.

We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

I'm still black in the eyes of America.

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.

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.

Race is still real and you got to recognize it.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

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.