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Saturday 20th of April 2024

2016 Presidential election Most white  working-class people voted for Donald Trump and the through line that you find is whiteness, not class and not gender. It's not like he only got men; he got a majority of white women too. So if you look at categories of white people you find Trump being dominant among them, in part because of the appeal he made, but also in part because the Republican Party has effectively become in this country the party of white people. Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2017 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Trump's rebellion was born at the intersection of two toxic American myths, the post-racial society and the classless society. Matt Taibbi © 2016 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Only one meaningful correlation emerged [from the Chicago Project on Security & Threats' study of January 6 insurgents]. Other things being equal, insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline. For every one point drop in a county's percentage of non-Hispanic whites from 2015 to 2019, the likelihood of an insurgent hailing from that county increased by 25 percent. This was a strong link, and it held up in every state. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action as expected, the court has inverted the 14th.  an amendment written explicitly to directly  ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy becomes in conservative hands an amendment that says it’s illegal to try to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy Jamelle Bouie, 10:09 AM – Jun 29, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism. But if that is its motivation, the majority proceeds in vain If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. It will take longer for racism to leave us. And, ultimately, ignoring race  just makes it matter more. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action [N]othing prohibits universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected the applicant’s life, so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university. Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This Nation’s constitutional history does not tolerate that choice. John Roberts, syllabus in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action This supposed recognition that universities can, in some situations, consider race in application essays is nothing but an attempt to put lipstick on a pig. Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces “colorblindness for all” by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country’s actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
American exceptionalism Mass incarceration © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say [Critical race theory] has really become the default ideology of the public education system. Christopher F. Rufo © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Let me tell you right now, critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets. Ted Cruz © 2022 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In 1960, when a survey asked American adults whether it would “disturb” them if their child married a member of the other political party, no more than 5 percent of either party answered “yes.” But in 2010, 33 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Republicans answered “yes.” In fact, partyism, as some call it, now beats race as the source of divisive prejudice.  Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Research … shows that in the 2012 elections the residents of 75% minority zip codes waited more than twice as long to vote as the residents of 75% white zip codes. There was almost no difference in waiting time by average income level. The zip codes with the longest lines were minority zip codes, not poor zip codes. Salvatore Babones, Sixteen for '16 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers A study by the Pew Research Center released Thursday found that homeownership rates since the peak in 2004 are down across the board. But while the rate among white households has fallen 5%, it has fallen 16% for African-American households. The rate among households age 65 and up has fallen just 3%, compared with 18% for those younger than 35. Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Voting, race and income   % of % of   population voters Whites in families 27% 35% making $75,000/more     Nonwhites in families 16% 11% making $50,000/less     based on 2014 data from Demos, “Automatic Voter Registration” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Caste Caste is the bones, race the skin. Race is what we can see, the physical traits that have been given arbitrary meaning and become shorthand for who a person is. Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in its place. Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times Magazine, July 5, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Christianity Evangelism created a safe harbor for white people who wanted to be counted as Christian without having to accept what ecumenical leaders said were the  social obligations demanded by the gospel, especially the imperative to extend civil equaliiy to nonwhites. David A. Hollinger, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular © 2023 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice There is also a growing body of evidence showing racial disparities in sentencing. In 2017, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that the average federal sentence for black men was 19.1 perent longer than for white men for the same crime, even when criminal history and other factors were held constant. Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death Mortality rates in recent years have been increasing for all whites, in contrast to decreases in the rest of the world. At the same time, it is worth noting that mortality rates for African Americans remain higher than for whites. Adverse economics is bad for health, regardless of race. Joseph Stiglitz, People, Power and Profits © 2019 Kwiple.com
Discrimination The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination. As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society. Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action © 2023 Kwiple.com
Discrimination The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. John Roberts, plurality decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fox News Fox's great insight wasn't necessarily that there was a great desire for a conservative point of view. The genius was seeing that there's an attraction to fear-based, anger-based politics that has to do with class and race. Blair Levin © 2019 Kwiple.com
Freedom of expression In the face of the history of the human race what can be more silly or ridiculous than likes or dislikes founded upon race or religion? Does humanity want symphonies and paintings and profound scientific truth, or does it want Christian symphonies, Christian paintings, Christian science, or Jewish symphonies, Jewish paintings, Jewish science, or Mohammedan or Egyptian or German or Russian or Commmunist or Conservative contributions to and expressions of the infinite richness of the human soul? Abraham Flexner © 2017 Kwiple.com
Gays The sexual question comes after the question of color; it's simply one more aspect of the danger in which all black people live. I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, into a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. James Baldwin © 2015 Kwiple.com
Higher education [W]hile higher education has become more diverse by culture and ethnicity, the income gap has grown to be twice as large as the race gap. … racial preferences have not changed economic power structures in the US. Indeed, they’ve arguably hardened them by creating what might be called a rainbow aristocracy. … The system is rigged against the less affluent. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, July 17, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
History History speaks. In some form, it can be heard forever. The race-based gaps that first developed centuries ago are echos from the past that still exist today. By all accounts, they are still stark. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Housing During the boom years, IndyMac charged high interest rates (defined by the government as more than 3 percentage points above prime) to 24 percent of its white borrowers, but 36 percent of Hispanics and 43 percent of African Americans. Aaron Glantz, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream © 2020 Kwiple.com
Hunger Of the 25 counties with the highest projected food-insecurity rates for 2020, 68 percent had majority Black, Latino, or  Native American populations — even though only 12 percent of U.S. counties have have a majority nonwhite population. National Geographic, August 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary yanezthetize (yə nez thə tīz), v. To authorize a white dressed in blue to kill a black. Memorializes Jeronimo Yanez, the St. Anthony, Minnesota, cop who panicked during a traffic stop, was live-streamed on Facebook from inside Philando Castile's car and caught on a police dashcam video as he shot Castile seven times, claimed he felt threatened when Castile followed his orders, lied about what he saw in court, and was acquitted of all charges. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Leadership roles In total, there are just four black chief executives among the 500 largest companies in the country. New York Times, June 6, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Liars say This has nothing to do with race. Donald Trump, on calling any NFL player who kneels during singing of the national anthem in protest of racial injustice in America a “son of a bitch” who should be fired  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Millennials The St Louis Fed estimates as many as 16 per cent of US millennials do not have the immediate means to cover an emergency expense of $400. For black millennials in particular, that figure rises to 32 per cent. Financial Times, July 9, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Partisanship [T]he two parties are now divided over race and religion—two deeply polarizing issues that tend to generate greater intolerance and hostility than traditional policy issues such as taxes and government spending. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Political power Whites have feared the political power of people of color more so than voters of color have recognized their power. Gilda R. Daniels, Uncounted  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage Republicans buy sneakers, too. Michael Jordan, acknowledged marketing maven, refusing to endorse Harvey Gantt, a black Democrat running against Jesse Helms, the segregationist Senator from North Carolina © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse When it comes to critical race theory, think of it like Rihanna's pregnancy. Even if you think it has nothing to do with you, believe me, you're going to be hearing a lot about it this year. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, February 20, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Only when Christ comes again. Billy Graham, response when asked, after King's "I Have a Dream" speech, when he thought “little white children … will walk hand in hand with little Black children” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Race After four years in the US, on both coasts, the sharpest relief since coming home [to Britain] has been the chance to have sustained conversations that do not in some way come back to identity. This is the difference between diversity and cosmopolitanism. The first is a physical fact. The second is an attitude towards it: a sort of insouciance. New York is diverse. London, where people one generation removed from Ireland or Italy won’t think to mention it, is cosmopolitan. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Race After my election there was talk of a post-racial America. Such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic. Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. Barack Obama © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race But race is the child of racism, not the father.  … Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me © 2016 Kwiple.com
Race I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2020 Kwiple.com
Race Imagine that you are about to be born, not knowing your race.  Where would you choose to make your life? Where will give you a fair crack, without boxing you in to round-the-clock  consciousness of matters of blood and soil? Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Race A man become as rich as he wants to, he is still a Negro. Or a man may sink as low as it is possible to sink in terms of the mores of society, but he will still be white. Peter L. Berger, An Invitation to Sociology © 2020 Kwiple.com
Race The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.  attributed to Daniel “Chappie” James Jr., America's first black four-star general  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Race My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well. My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder where I'm gonna die, Being neither white nor black? “Cross” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race Once riding in old Baltimore Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Kept looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, ‘Nigger.’ I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that hapened there That's all that I remember. “Incident” by Countee Cullen © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race The root of the white man's hatred is terror, a bottomless and nameless terror, which focuses on the black, surfacing, and concentrating on this dread figure, an entity which lives only in his mind. But the root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply wants them out of his way, and, more than that, out of his children's way. James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race The root of the white man's hatred is terror, a bottomless and nameless terror, which focuses on the black, surfacing, and concentrating on this dread figure, an entity which lives only in his mind. But the root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply wants them out of his way, and, more than that, out of his children's way. James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of ‘benign neglect.’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in a 1970 memo to President Nixon © 2015 Kwiple.com
Race What happens if you spend decades focused on appealing to white voters and treating nonwhite voters with, at best, benign neglect? You get good at doing what it takes to appeal to white voters. That is the truth that led to what is famously called “the southern strategy.” That is the path that leads you to becoming what the Republican Party now proudly embraces: a white grievance party. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Race “Where are you from?” “London.” “Well where were you born?” “London.” “Well, before then?” “There was no before then!” “Well, where are your parents from?” “Barbados.” “Oh, so you're from Barbados.” “No, I'm from London.” Gary Younge, a black Briton, recounting a “typical conversation” in England, in Stranger in a Strange Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race Why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better? The garbage wasn't picked up every motherfuckin' day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. The police weren't around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o'clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something. Spike Lee © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race and class It is clear that the social location of an individual as a Negro … implies a far narrower channeling of existential possibilities than happens by way of class. Indeed, the individual's possibilities of class mobility are most definitely determined by his social location, since some of the most stringent disabilities of the latter are economic in character. Thus a man's conduct, ideas and psychological identity are shaped by race in a manner far more decisive than they commonly are by class. Peter L. Berger, An Invitation to Sociology © 2020 Kwiple.com
Republican Party The party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln. George W. Bush, at the NAACP 2000 national convention © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Blacks? We don't need no blacks! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gerrymander to re-segregate © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say We're white. They're not. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Schools The heavy reliance on state and local funding means that our country's nonwhite school districts get about $23 billion less every year than white school districts, even though they serve the same number of children. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie All I care about is race. Edward Blum © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have a great relationship with the blacks. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The blight of racial discrimination in voting has been halted © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say “Great” in “Make America Great Again” doesn't mean “White” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump truly is something new – the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific – America's first white president. Donald Trump portrayed by Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snuffed out I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … Eric Garner, being choked to death for selling loose cigarettes by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo © 2015 Kwiple.com
Small business A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that black-owned businesses in the US have been dispropor-  tionately impacted by lockdowns and changes in consumer behaviour during the pandemic. The overall number of active business owners in the US fell 15 per cent between February and May 2020, but African-American business owners suffered a 26 per cent drop, while those controlled by Latinx owners fell 19 per cent, according to the report. After the 2008 financial crisis, fewer than 50 per cent of black-owned businesses sur- vived compared to 60 percent for white- owned businesses, according to a recent study from the Brookings Institute … Financial Times, August 27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union c Class-based segregation transcends race-based segregation © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union The nation is moving toward two societies, one white, one black – separate and unequal. The Kerner Report: The 1968 Report of the NationalAdvisory Commisson on Civil Disorders © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal. Kerner Commission report [1968] © 2021 Kwiple.com
State of the union c White parents don't have to have “the talk” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Teachers $59k Average amount owed by teachers with outstanding student loan debts $100k Minimum amount owed by one in five Black teachers The Nation, September 19/26, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpism … the most reliable predictor for who was a Trump voter wasn't race  but the combination of race and education. Among white people, 38 percent of college graduates voted for Trump, compared with 64 percent without college degrees. This margin —the great gap between Smart America and Real America — was the decisive one. It made 2016 different from previous elections, and the trend only intensified in 2020. George Packer, The Atlantic, July/August 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think “critical race theory.” We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. Christopher F. Rufo, 3:17 PM – Mar 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say We have successfully frozen their brand — “critical race theory” — into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. Christopher F. Rufo, 3:14 PM – Mar 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Voter ID laws Of the eleven states with the highest black turnout in 2008, seven adopted stricter voter ID laws, and of the twelve states that experienced the highest rates of Hispanic population growth between 2000 and 2010, nine passed laws making it harder to vote. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Voting The chance you will be allowed to register to vote, to cast a vote, and to have that vote counted is directly proportional to the melanin in the skin of your ancestors. Greg Palast, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits © 2015 Kwiple.com
Voting rights If a single statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality. … If a single statute reminds of us of the worst of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. Because it was — and remains — so necessary. Elena Kagan, dissent in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality Economic disparities are also growing by race. In 1963, median family wealth was $43,000 higher for whites than for African Americans. By 2013, it was $123,000 higher (and $120,000 higher than for Hispanics, for whom there isn't data from 1963). Even in the few years since the financial crash, wealth inequality has grown along racial lines. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution © 2021 Kwiple.com
White privilege Fish don't know they swim in water saying © 2017 Kwiple.com
Whites Whites, it must be frankly said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to re-educate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so littile to learn. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here:  Chaos or Community?  © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Women NEGRESSES. Hotter than white women. Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Accepted Ideas Trans. by Jacques Barzun © 2016 Kwiple.com