bigotry

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race. Challenging these forms of racism is certainly necessary, as we must always remain vigilant, but it will do little to shake the foundations of the current system of control. The new caste system, unlike its predecessors, is officially colorblind. We must deal with it on its own terms.

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their best behavior, raise their arms and spread their legs for the police without complaint, stay in failing schools, pull up their pants, and refuse all forms of illegal work and moneymaking activity, even if jobs in the legal economy are impossible to find. Girls are told not to have children until they are married to a "good" black man who can help provide for a family with a legal job. They are told to wait and wait for Mr. Right even if that means, in a jobless ghetto, never having children at all.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry __olitical correctness!_, _ chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the Communist Party. But even this was softened in some later essays. The truth is that he disliked Auden's homosexuality, and could not get over his prejudice. But much of the interest of Orwell lies in the fact that he was born prejudiced, so to speak, against Jews and the coloured peoples of the empire, and against the poor and uneducated, and against women and intellectuals__nd managed, in a transparent and unique way, to educate himself out of this fog of bigotry (though he never did get over his aversion to 'pansies').

I wasn__ a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.

That__ what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others_ throats and telling them that they__e beneath you _ and it__ not unique to the West either.

Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its ugly head. It is incumbent upon all people to confront even the slightest hint of racist thought or action with zero tolerance.

The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

Some people think they are holier than othersSome religions think they are the only true onesSome gods think they are the most divineSome races think they are a superior breedThe war goes on to the grave and beyond

Mom says crap like that comes from people who've accomplished so little in life that they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, "Well, I might not be much, but at least I'm not a..." I'd look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

The same people who wear shirts that read __uck your feelings_ and rail against __olitical correctness_ seem to believe that there should be no social consequences for [voting for Trump]. I keep hearing calls for empathy and healing, civility and polite discourse. As if supporting a man who would fill his administration with white nationalists and misogynists is something to simply agree to disagree on.Absolutely not. You don__ get to vote for a person who brags about sexual assault and expect that the women in your life will just shrug their shoulders. You don__ get to play the victim when people unfriend you on Facebook, as if being disliked for supporting a bigot is somehow worse than the suffering that marginalized people will endure under Trump. And you certainly do not get to enjoy a performance by people of color and those in the LGBT community without remark or protest when you enact policies and stoke hatred that put those very people__ lives in danger.Being socially ostracized for supporting Trump is not an infringement of your rights, it__ a reasonable response by those of us who are disgusted, anxious, and afraid. I was recently accused by a writer of __ote shaming_ _ but there__ nothing wrong with being made to feel ashamed for doing something shameful.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

Racism, hate, and bigotry are EVIL and WICKED no matter how you try to rationalize it. I couldn__ imagine living my life with this crap in my heart. I love building new relationships and I enjoy learning about different cultures! If people would change their thinking and open up their hearts, they__ be amazed at the beautiful relationships that they could have. And, for the record, I couldn__ imagine ALL of my friends being black. There are too many amazing people from different backgrounds that I still have yet to meet. NO WAY would I limit my relationships based on race, absolutely not! I am free to like and love who I want to and I won__ allow anybody to persuade me with their opinions. I have my own mind! I__ my own person! I refuse to dislike and/or hate another race __ust because!_ I am Stephanie Lahart: BOLD. BRAVE. STRONG.