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Monday 24th of August 2026

Racism America's internal schisms are being used against it, and used well, with the soft touch and irony that autocrats are meant to lack. But then there is so much to work with. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, June 3, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism But you're not black. Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people, right? Georgia police officer caught on dash-cam video during a DUI traffic stop in July 2016 reassuring a woman she can drop her hands and call someone to come get her © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism From now on white women and white men will be forced into organizations with black African apes whom they will have to call “brother” or lose their jobs. Vance Muse, lobbyist for the right-to-work movement, explaining its origins in white opposition to racially inclusive unions like the CIO, which were organizing workers throughout the South, including in Texas, where he lived © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racism I think the younger generations have a real problem with wanting to build their identity around being a victim. They want to have racism to fight — not fight racism — have racism to fight so badly that, when it's not there, they make it up.  And there's enough real racism in the world that making up more doesn't help. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Oct. 5, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racism If you accept the support of a Klan sympathizer, the Klan, and hesitate when asked about that support [as Donald Trump did], then you'll tolerate that support once in office. Barack Obama © 2016 Kwiple.com
Racism Imagine a group of black men in paramilitary gear with semiautomatic rifles moving towards a US state capitol building. Their chances of reaching the steps without a police stand-off – or worse – would be tiny. Yet every few days white protesters do just that. They often enter the building armed but unchallenged. Nothing brings into sharper relief America’s colour disparities than life and death in the great lockdown. Edward Luce, Financial Times, May 14, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism Nobody ever went broke betting on the popular appeal of American racism. Gary Younge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism The past is not dead. It is not even past. William Faulkner © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism Police shoot a 12-year-old black male with a toy gun within 2 seconds of arriving on the scene, standing by as he dies from gunshot wounds to the pelvis, intestines and major blood vessels vs. Local, state and federal police promise no confrontations, back off and move offsite to ponder negotiations when white anti-government militiamen brandishing assault weapons, threatening shootings and calling for insurrection occupy public land and buildings to protest jailing of white arsonists © 2016 Kwiple.com
Racism Racism in this nation's gone from latent to blatant Sonny in In the Heights, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegría Hudes © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism Racism is ignorance based on being miseducated. Racism is a result of being indoctrinated instead of educated. I don't sugarcoat racism. Jane Elliott, creator of the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” anti-racist classsroom exercise that forces children to experience prejudice and discrimination firsthand © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism Racism is prejudice erected into a system. Kevin Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction © 2024 Kwiple.com
Racism Racists always back up racists. Ruben Gallego, explaining why he wasn't surprised when Trump granted a full pardon to Sheriff Joe Arpaio  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me © 2016 Kwiple.com
Racism This president [Obama] is the most racist president there has ever been in America. Ben Stein, ex-Nixon speechwriter, current Reich winger who compares Obama to Hitler and ignores 12 slave-owning presidents © 2015 Kwiple.com
Racism The UN committee charged with tackling racism has issued an “early warning” over conditions in the US and urged the Trump administration to “unequivocally and unconditionally” reject discrimination. … Such statements are usually issued by the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd) over fears of ethnic or religious conflict. In the past decade, the only other countries issued with an early warning were Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. The Guardian, August 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism We now live in a society where it's worse to call someone a racist than it is to be one. Fran Lebowitz © 2015 Kwiple.com
Racism You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both. Tom Watson © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” – that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, “forced busing,” “states' rights,” and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a by- product of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. … “We want to cut this” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” Lee Atwater, 1981 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Racists say Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. Donald Trump, on a black accountant at one of his casinos © 2018 Kwiple.com
Racists say The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans. Mitch McConnell, January 19, 2022, wrong both factually, especially when rates of voting among blacks are compared to rates among whites, and for denying that voting laws recently passed by Republican state legislatures were neither intended to nor will they have the effect of suppresing voting by minorities  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Racists say Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson? Rush Limbaugh, Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for “decades of tireless devotion to our country” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. William “Bill” Bennett, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racists say I don't see that as promoting it, but look, at the end of the day, it's something that's out there. I have not studied it. Jared Kushner, commenting on his father-in-law's repeating a right-wing conspiracy theorist's claim that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run  for vice president because her parents  weren't citizens when she was born  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements. Donald Trump, repeating a right-wing conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for vice president because her parents weren't citizens when she was born © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say I mean, would America buy a nigger winning? Donald Trump, on refusing to hire Kwame Jackson, the Black finalist on the first season of The Apprentice (2004) © 2024 Kwiple.com
Racists say I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs. Rush Limbaugh, Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for “decades of tireless devotion to our country” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say If it needs lynching to protect women's dearest possession from the ravening human beasts, then I say lynch a thousand times a week. Rebecca Latimer Felton, Congress's last former slave owner, sworn in as Senator from Georgia in 1922, when she was nearly 88 years old © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racists say In my experience I have observed that there are two types of black people. 1. Black folks and 2. Niggers. Because I knew the victim and and her husband's family and knew them all to be good black folks, I felt Tharpe, who wasn't in the ‘good’ black folks category in my book, should get the electric chair for what he did. After studying the Bible, I have won- dered if black people even have souls. Barnie Gattie, a juror in a 1991 capital trial in Georgia, explaining why he voted to convict the defendant of murder © 2018 Kwiple.com
Racists say The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. … In New York state, if you're white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health. Donald Trump, January 15, 2022, at a rally in Florence, Arizona, a town which was 82.2% white in 2015 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Racists say My nigger maid wouldn’t dare sit down in the same room with me unless she sat on the floor at my feet! Ida Mercedes Muse Darden, Vance Muse's sister © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racists say The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. Rush Limbaugh, Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for “decades of tireless devotion to our country” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. Rush Limbaugh, Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for “decades of tireless devotion to our country” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say What I said wasn't racism. It couldn't be because Obama had a white mother, a white grandfather, he went to white schools, and most of what he learned was from whites. Rudy Giuliani, who said to an audience of whites, “I know this is a horriblle thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.” © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Racists say Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? Donald Trump, asking about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries  at a White House meeting on immigration, where he also suggested we should bring in more people from countries like Norway © 2018 Kwiple.com