Racial Essentialism Quotes

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

It is not morality that makes Jews bad, but the Jews make bad morality.... Morals and religion are the products of race.

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Critical race theory is a profoundly unserious proposition that rests on a willing suspension of disbelief about history, economics and society. No honest person with an ounce of historical learning believes the U.S. was founded to preserve the institution of slavery. Yet for years we have found ourselves locked in a pseudoacademic debate with grifting extremists who’ve made this flapdoodle part of the curriculum in some places.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

When you will explain why, in His wisdom, He made one mountain overtop another mountain--formed one ocean larger than another ocean--planned one valley wider than another valley; when you can make me understand why He made the oak stronger than its neighbor--the rainbow more beautiful than the storm-cloud--the lily more lovely than the lilac; when you will tell me the reason that Providence ordained that the fair Saxon should be permitted to express, in the blush upon her face, all the emotions of her soul, while the African knows not the signification of the word--when these things are made clear to me, I will tell you how and why He has made the African the servant of the Anglo-Saxon race, but not till then. They were born and bred servants, they cannot be masters

Diversity worship and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college. If one is black, brown, yellow or white, the prevailing thought is that he should take pride and celebrate that fact even though, just as in the case of my eye color, he had nothing to do with it. The multiculturist and diversity crowd see race as an achievement. In my book, race might be an achievement, worthy of considerable celebration, only if a person was born white and through his effort and diligence became black.

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.