It's ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Do you know what it's like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation was in the Bible. Genesis 9, verse 27. At seven years of age you get told it enough, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it, you breathe it. You marry it.
Don't give me that look. If you got rid of every cop with vaguely racist leanings, you'd have... three cops left, and all of them are gonna hate the fags.
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
I always felt that to really play jazz, you had to be black. I'm just a mulatto.
Only a damn fool can expect the people of one tradition to feel at ease when their country is flooded with hordes of foreigners who—whether equal, superior, or inferior biologically—are so antipodal in physical, emotional, and intellectual makeup that harmonious coalescence is virtually impossible
In 1996, in a state referendum, Californians voted 55% to embed a colorblind amendment in their state constitution:
«The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.»
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The Democratic legislature, however, wants to be rid of this amendment as it outlaws the kind of racial and ethnic discrimination in which Sacramento wishes to engage.
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If this passes...<...> — there will be racial and ethnic discrimination, as in the days of segregation. Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims will be reversed. And that is the meaning of the BLM revolution, which might be encapsulated: «It’s our turn now!»
— You like baseball, Anderson?
— Yeah, I do. You know it's the only time a black man can wave a stick at a white man and not start a riot.
They want me to say that two white boys also died helping Negroes help themselves. They want me to say we mourn with the mothers of these two white boys. But the State of Mississippi won't allow these boys to be buried in the same cemetery as this Negro boy. I say, I have no more love to give. I have only anger in my heart today and I want you to be angry with me! I am sick, and I am tired and I want you to be sick and tired! I am sick and tired of going to funerals of black men who've been murdered by white men. I am sick and tired of the people of this country who continue to allow these things to happen. What is an "unalienable right" if you are a Negro? What does "equal treatment under the law" mean? What does it mean liberty and justice for all"? Now I say to these people look at this young man and you'll see the face of a black man but if you look at the blood, it's red! It is like yours! It is just like yours!
An article in "Time" magazine stated "the ordinary unreasoning jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing indicates it."
This racism prevailed when president roosevelt in February 1942 signed an executive order calling for the evacuation of over 110,000 Japanese and japanese-americans from california oregon and washington on the grounds that they "represented a threat to national security." 70% of them were american citizens.
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