Racial Disadvantage Quotes

I have the utmost respect for Charles Barkley. He was a heck of a ballplayer... When it comes to basketball, please quote Charles Barkley. But when it comes to race in America? Please don't quote Charles Barkley.

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

This is a country that was founded on racism. It was built on racism. It still continues to thrive through wealth disparity, and housing disparity is all built on the backs of racism.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

There will be no objections to your retaining your servant Boy and shipping colored persons as cooks and stewards.

Slavery was gone but its inequalities remained.

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

Modern technical civilization does not seem to be as well handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States

If I were white, I could capture the world.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am telling stories about people of color.

My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

In the past, I said I didn't want to speak on certain issues because the second I said one thing about race, then 'Tyron's playing the race card.' But if you really think about it, what is the race card? The race card is that the man held me down, I had unfair circumstances, and I wasn't able to be successful because I was held down.

Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort. And no chief executive of this great nation has, in earnest, developed a unique plan to remedy that discomfort.

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

The most anyone could reasonably say about institutional racism is that the 'evidence is far from conclusive.

My concerns have always been to do the best job I can. But I am conscious that I'm a black manager and I am conscious that there is a profile that goes with that.

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

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'.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.