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Monday 4th of May 2026
2014 midterm elections
Obama's the reason
government aid just goes to Them
Republican campaign theme
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2014 midterm elections
Obama's the reason
there's still a Black man
in the White House
Post-election reminder
posted on right-wing blogs
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2016 Presidential election
Race definitely
played a role in the 2016 election.
I think race will always play a role
in our country. It’s just sort of
a constant fact of American life.
And definitely some people
who voted for Trump were racists,
and they voted for him for racist reasons.
J. D. Vance
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2016 Presidential election
This was many things.
This was a rebellion against the elites.
True.
It was a complete reinvention
of politics and polls.
It's true.
But it was also something else. …
This was a whitelash.
This was a whitelash
against a changing country.
It was whitelash
against a black president in part.
And that's the part where the pain comes.
Van Jones, November 9, 2016
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2016 Presidential election
Were you paid $1,500 to be a thug?
Donald Trump,
to a black rallier seated near the podium who
he ordered to be removed without realizing
the man was a supporter who sat up front
so he could give Trump a note saying
he'd get more black votes if he
showed blacks more respect
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Abortion
I think
the majority of people in Michigan
will be for abortion … well certainly
in Michigan they'll vote for it because
they think what's going to be aborted
generally are the little black bastards.
Richard Nixon
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Abortion
There are times when
an abortion's necessary like when
you have a black and a white.
Richard Nixon
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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
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Affirmative action
In order to get beyond racism, we must first
take account of race. There is no other way.
And in order to treat some persons equally,
we must treat them differently.
We cannot — we dare not —let the Equal
Protection Clause perpetrate racial supremacy.
…
in McCulloch against Maryland, [Chief Justice
John Marshall] went on, in words that i think
are particularly appropriate for this case,
“Let the end be legitimate, let it be within
the scope of the Constitution, and all means,
all means which are appropriate, which are
plainly adopted to that end, which are not
prohibited, but consist with the letter and
spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional.”
Harry Blackmun,
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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Affirmative action
The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race
is to stop discriminating
on the basis of race.
John Roberts,
Parents Involved in Community Schools
v. Seattle School District No. 1,
which invalidated integration plans
in Seattle and Louisville
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Alt righters say
America was,
until this last generation,
a white country designed for
ourselves and our posterity.
It is our creation,
it is our inheritance,
and it belongs to us.
Richard B. Spencer
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Alt-righters say
I'm trying to make myself
more capable of violence.
I'm here to spread ideas,
talk in the hopes that somebody more
capable will come along and do that.
Somebody like Donald Trump who
does not give his daughter to a Jew.
… Someone a lot more racist
than Donald Trump.
Christopher Cantwell, alt-right shock jock,
leader of white supremacists, and speaker
at the Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia
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Alt-righters say
Keep the White House white
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Alt-righters say
Let them call you racists.
Let them call you xenophobes.
Let them call you nativists.
Wear it as a badge of honor.
Steve Bannon,
addressing a National Front rally in France
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Blindsided
It was revealed in America that
an 80-year-old white man
has racist tendencies.
Didn't see that coming.
Dave Chappelle, after
private recordings of Donald Sterling,
former Los Angeles Clippers owner,
were made public
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Breitbart News
If you haven't heard of Breitbart News,
that means you do not have
a racist uncle on Facebook.
Stephen Colbert
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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
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Bullshitters say
The woke class wants to teach kids
to hate each other, rather than
teaching them how to read.
Ron DeSantis,
strawman argument against teaching children
about America's encounter with racism
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By the numbers
Percentage of black Americans
earning less than $25,000 a year
who say they have been called
a racial slur:
40
Of black Americans earning
more than $75,000:
65
Harper's Index, January 2018
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Cocks of the walk say
I am the least racist person there is.
Donald Trump
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Dead-in-the-heads say
Congress could pass a law tomorrow
requiring that all aliens from
Arabic countries leave. … We should
require passports to fly domestically.
Passports can be forged, but they can
also be checked with the home country
in case of any suspicious-looking
swarthy males.
Ann Coulter,
within two after 9/11
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Dead-in-the-heads say
I want to tell you one more thing
I know about the Negro. … They
abort their young children,
they put their young men
in jail because they never
learned to pick cotton.
And I've often wondered,
are they better off as slaves
having a family life and doing
things, or are they better off
under government subsidy.
Cliven Bundy, rancher and patriarch
of the Bunkerville, Nevada, Bundys,
hero to Western white militiamen
for refusing to pay fees to graze
his cattle on federal lands
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Dead-in-the-heads say
Looks like many
anti-police agitators in Boston.
Police are looking tough and smart!
Thank you.
Donald Trump,
describing anti-fascist and anti-racist
counter-protesters at Boston Common,
12:22 PM – 19 Aug 2017
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Dead-in-the-heads say
The only people
giving a platform
to these hate groups
is the media itself
and the fake news.
Donald Trump,
Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017
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Dead-in-the-heads say
Someone needs to explain to me
why gassing Arabs
is such a bad thing.
Ann Coulter
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Democracy
Cause everything that hitler
And mussolini do,
Negroes get the same
Treatment from you.
You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power —
And you're STILL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour.
You say we're fighting
For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?
from “Beaumont to Detroit: 1943”
by Langston Hughes, addressing
America during World War II
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Democratic Party
The rejection
of [George] Wallace [in 1964]
was as much a statement for the
Democratic Party as the acceptance
of Trump by the Republican Party.
Stuart Stevens,
It Was All a Lie
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Filibusters
While I continue to support these
[voting rights] bills, I will not support
separate actions that worsen the underlying
disease of division infecting our country.
We must address the disease itself,
the disease of division,
to protect our democracy, and it
cannot be achieved by one party alone.
Kysten Sinema,
bullshitting about being a proponent
of voting rights while sacrificing them
on the altar of the anti-democratic filibuster,
which she unashamedly loves far more,
as do the similarly afflicted Joe Manchin and
all Republican senators and white supremacists,
who showered her with heartfelt huzzahs
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Freedom
Looks like by now
Folks ought to know
It's hard to beat Hitler
Protecting Jim Crow.
Freedom's not just
To be won Over There.
It means Freedom at home, too —
Now —
right here!
from “How About It, Dixie”
by Langston Hughes
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Freedom of speech
If we ask not who is ashamed to speak
but who is stigmatized for speech,
it is easier to diagnose what is a crisis
and what is fearmongering.
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
New York Times, April 12, 2022
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Hypocrites say
Voter ID laws
don't suppress voting
by minorities and the poor
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Immigration
Shinzo,
you don't have this problem,
but I can send you 25 million Mexicans
and you'll be out of office very soon.
Donald Trump
to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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Justice
I feel so relieved. I feel relieved.
I don't see how it could have been
otherwise, but I do know that
it could have been otherwise.
As an African-American women,
I am glad that I have lived
to see this in my lifetime.
I never thought I would live to see it,
and I'm 91 years old.
Woman interviewed by Shomari Stone of
NBC News after the announcement that a
white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin,
had been convicted on all counts of murdering
George Floyd, a black man
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Justice
A measure of justice
isn't the same as equal justice.
Kamala Harris,
commenting on the conviction of
white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin
on all three counts related to his May 25, 2020,
nine-minute-and-twenty-nine-second
knee-on-the-neck murder in public of
George Floyd, a handcuffed black man
pinned face down on the street
against the tire of a police cruiser
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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.
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Kwiplers say
Imagine
what Trump would be like
if Obama were only white
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Kwiplers say
Not everyone who voted for Trump
is a liar and a racist and a sexist,
but everyone who did is someone
who wanted one in the White House
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Law
Racism and segregation
is no longer de jure,
but it is still de facto.
Alvin Holmes
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Liars say
I don't know.
Vern Buchanan,
Republican representing Florida's 16th
congressional district, explaining why he
voted against a bill he co-sponsored to name
a Florida courthouse after Joseph Hatchett,
the first black Florida supreme court justice
and first black state supreme court justice
south of the Mason-Dixon line,
following the circulation of a letter opposing
the honor by Georgia representative Andrew
Clyde — who's agaist the Emmett Till Anti-
Lynching Act and recognizing Juneteenth
as a federal holiday and called the January 6
insurrection a “normal tourist visit” — because
Hatchett upheld the Supreme Court's ban
on school prayer in a 1999 decision,
leading to killing the bill
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Liars say
I'm … I …
I actually do not know that, sir,
but I imagine that is the case.
Kirstjen Nielsen,
Secretary of Homeland Security,
answering Sen. Patrick Leahy, who asked her,
“Norway is a predominantly
white country, isn't it?,”
after she claimed President Trump wants
more immigrants from Norway rather
than Haiti and African countries
because they're more skilled
and after he reminded her that
being from Norway is not a skill
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Native Americans
I don't go so far as to think that the only
good Indians are the dead Indians,
but I believe nine out of every ten are,
and I shouldn't like to inquire
too closely into the case of the tenth.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Profiles in courage
We can have no tolerance
for an ideology of racial hatred.
There are no good neo-Nazis, and
those who espouse their views are not
supporters of American
ideals and freedoms.
Mitch McConnell,
like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and
other Republicans who fear being primaried
by Trump supporters the next time they run,
scoring easy points by bemoaning hatred
without condemning Trump by name
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Public discourse
There wasn't one person in Sylvia's
who was screaming,
“M-Fer, I want more iced tea.”
You know, I mean, everybody was —
it was like going into an Italian
restaurant in an all-white suburb
in the sense of people were sitting there,
and they were ordering and having fun.
And there wasn't any kind of craziness
at all.
Bill O'Reilly,
recounting his visit to Sylvia's,
a famous restaurant in Harlem
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Punt returners say
That's all right,
I don't eat colored people.
Bring me a whole fried chicken.
Dick Gregory,
responding to a white waitress who told him,
“We don't serve colored people here”
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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
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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
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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
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Racism
The first thing the Tea Party hates
is being called racist.
The second thing they hate
is black people.
Bill Maher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Racism
Nobody ever went broke
betting on the popular appeal
of American racism.
Gary Younge
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Racism
The past is not dead.
It is not even past.
William Faulkner
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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
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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
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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
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Racism
Racism is prejudice erected into a system.
Kevin Passmore,
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction
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Racism
Racists always back up racists.
Ruben Gallego,
explaining why he wasn't surprised
when Trump granted a full pardon
to Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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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
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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
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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
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Racism
We now live in a society where it's
worse to call someone a racist
than it is to be one.
Fran Lebowitz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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”
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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.”
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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
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Reich wingers say
Trump comments were good.
He didn't attack us.
He just said the nation
should come together.
Nothing specific against us.
He said that we need to study why
people are so angry and implied
that there was hate … on both sides.
So he implied the antifa [anti-fascists]
are haters. There was virtually no
counter-signaling of us at all.
The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi publication, on
Trump's not blaming white supremacists for
the violence at a Unite the Alt-Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, where a neo-Nazi
drove into anti-racists, killing 1 & injuring 19
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Reich wingers say
We'll vandalize and victimize
Burn your house and wreck your town
Strangle, beat and crucify
Time to run if you are brown
lyrics by Blue Eyed Devils
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Religion
It would be too bad if Jesus
Were to come back black.
There are so many churches
Where he could not pray
In the U.S.A.,
Where entrance to Negroes,
No matter how sanctified,
Is denied,
Where race, not religion,
Is glorified.
But say it —
You
may be
Crucified.
“Bible Belt” by Langston Hughes
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Republicans say
Defunding programs
opposing racism and extremism
is change we believe in
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Republicans say
Reverse racism
is the real problem
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Republicans say
We're not going to get the Negro vote
as a block in 1964 and 1968,
so we ought to go hunting
where the ducks are.
Barry Goldwater, 1964,
kicking off the Republican Party's
still-ascendant “southern strategy”
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Rovearian cancer
If their [black voters'] share of
the turnout drops just one point
in North Carolina, Mr. Obama's 2008
winning margin there is wiped out
two and a half times over.
Karl Rove,
Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2011,
Republican Party fundraiser and strategist,
on benefits to Republicans of suppressing
votes by voters likely to vote Democratic,
later resulting in Republican-led laws
aimed at solving the presupposed
problem of “widespread” voter
fraud in state after state
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Segregation
Pearl Harbor put Jim Crow on the run.
That Crow can't fly for Democracy
And be the same old Crow he used to be —
Although right now, even yet today,
He still tries to act in the same old way.
But India and China and Harlem, too,
Have made up their minds Jim Crow
is through.
from “Jim Crow's Last Stand”
by Langston Hughes
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Selfie
They call me anti-Jew and anti-nigger.
Listen we like the nigger — in his place …
Our [Right-to-Work] amendment
helps the nigger;
it does not discriminate against him.
Good niggers,
not those Communist niggers.
Jews?
Why some of my best friends are Jews.
Good Jews.
Vance Muse,
the foremost lobbyist for right-to-work laws
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Selfie
I will never be outniggered again.
George Wallace,
after losing to a candidate
supported by the Ku Klux Klan
in the 1958 Alabama gubernatorial race
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Slavery
The true evil of American slavery
wasn’t involuntary servitude.
It was the narrative of racial difference,
the ideology of white supremacy
that we made up to justify slavery.
That’s the true evil.
Bryan Stevenson,
2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values,
Harvard Univrsity, December 7, 2017
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Sleepers at the wheel say
Donald Trump's not a racist
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Sleepers at the wheel say
More jobs means less racism
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Sleepers at the wheel say
Racism is not part of the American DNA.
Edward Blum
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Snapshot
They [the victims] stood up for me.
I forgive the prosecutor. He wrote a letter.
And the parole board? They saw that
justice happened. But I don't forgive
Mike Pence, and never will.
He talks all this God stuff, but he's biased.
He hates Muslims, he hates gay people,
and he hates minorities. He didn't want
to be the first white man in Indiana
to pardon an innocent black man.
Mike Pence
portrayed by Keith Cooper
who then-Governor Pence refused to pardon
after having been released because of new
DNA evidence, recantations by victims and
witnesses, and recommendations to do so
by the prosecutor and Indiana Parole Board
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Snapshot
He is a racist. He is a con man.
And he is a cheat.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Michael Cohen
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Snapshot
This is how the Republiican Party
has gotten votes for fifty years.
Trump is just tearing off the mask.
Now he just says right out
the racism that was only
barely hidden for so long.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Eric Foner (2016)
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Social media
I'd still rather do this
than work 9-5 somewhere.
A Cameroonian immigrant
quoted in
Get Rich or Lie Trying,
Symeon Brown's book about social media
influencers, who starred in a live-streaming show
where Americans paid to racially abuse him
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The South
Any southern white man
worth a pinch of salt
would give his all
to maintain white supremacy.
Richard Russell
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Surely you jest
I have been saying
even against me the system is rigged.
Donald Trump,
when asked what he would say
to African Americans who believe
that the system is rigged against them,
comparing opposing institutionalized racism
to opposing Republican Party
delegate allocation rules
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Surely you jest
Republican Party leaders shrieking,
“I am shocked, shocked to find
racists flocking to us!”
while pursuing a Southern Strategy
based on racial resentment
since the 1960s
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Surely you jest
That changes everything.
He didn't say “shithole”
– he said “shithouse.”
Either way, Trump
is being a complete asshouse
who maybe, maybe, just maybe,
doesn't belong in the White Hole.
Stephen Colbert,
commenting on reports Republicans are
defending Trump by saying he called Haiti,
El Salvador and African countries
“shithouses,” not “shitholes.”
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,
January 16, 2018
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Trumpism
A map of his support may
coordinate with racist Google searches,
but it coordinates even better with
deindustrialization and despair,
with the zones of economic misery
that thirty years of Washington's
free-market consensus have
brought to the rest of America.
Thomas Frank,
Rendevous with Oblivion
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Trumpists say
For us, it's conquer or die.
Richard Spencer,
speaking to an audience of white supremacists
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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
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Trumpists say
I didn't even know
there was a history with that phrase.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
on calling herself a “Christian nationalist”
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Trumpists say
I have worked with President Trump
for two years and he is not a racist.
He is a compassionate man whose policies
have focused on the minority community.
He is a results-oriented president
who is focused on helping uplift
all Americans, including blacks,
including Hispanics.
Mercedes Schlapp, July, 2019,
Trump 2020 campaign advisor
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Trumpists say
I knew those were people
that love this country,
that truly respect law enforcement,
would never do anything to break a law,
so I wasn't concerned.
Had the tables been turned,
and president Trump won the election,
and those were tens of thousands of
Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters,
I might have been a little concerned.
Ron Johnson,
on the mob of white Trump supporters
that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021
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Trumpists say
I would say,
based on the current way things are going,
the best advice I would give to white people
is to get the hell away from black people.
Just get the fuck away.
Wherever you have to go, just get away.
…
It makes no sense whatsoever
as a white citizen
to try to help black citizens anymore.
It doesn't make sense.
Scott Adams
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Trumpists say
If he invited me to a public hanging,
I'd be on the front row.
Cindy Hyde-Smith,
2018 Republican candidate
for Senator from Mississippi,
where 539 blacks were lynched
between 1882 and 1968,
to a supporter at a campaign stop
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Trumpists say
In some parts of the country,
it does seem the America we
know and love doesn't exist anymore.
Massive demographic changes have
been foisted upon the American people.
And they're changes that none of us
ever voted for and most of us don't like.
Laura Ingraham,
who later said her comment
has nothing to do with race
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Trumpists say
To be white is to be a striver,
a crusader, an explorer, and a conqueror.
We build, we produce, we go upward,
and we recognize the central lie of
American race relations.
We don't exploit other groups.
We don't gain anything from their presence.
They need us and not the other way around.
Richard Spencer
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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
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Trumpists say
We should string you up
by a lamppost right now.
You're running into a patriot now.
Justin Andersch, conspiracy theorist,
after unleasing a string of racial and
anti-government empithets toward Nevada's
governor Steve Sisolak and his wife, Kathy,
who is of Chinese heritage and calling her
a "working-for-China piece of shit”
in a Las Vegas restaurant
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Trumpists say
We’re not a racist country, Brian.
We never have been.
Nikki Haley
to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade,
despite recounting tales of the racism
she experienced growing up in Bamberg, SC,
in her autobiography,
Can't Is Not An Option
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Trumpists say
You call it terrorism.
I call it patriotism.
Jeremy Joseph Christian,
at his sentencing hearing for stabbing
two people to death and wounding a third
who tried to intervene when he was
shouting racist and anti-Muslim slurs
at two teenage girls
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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
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Voting rights
I don't think
there is anything to be gained
by any senator to vote against
continuation of this act.
Antonin Scalia,
on reauthorization of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which he
called “perpetuation of racial entitlement”
and believed happened without dissenters
for the first time in 2006 because senators
had become too afraid to be called racist,
and not because racial disenfranchisement
had become unacceptable
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World War II
You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power —
And you're STILL jim crowing me
Right now this very hour
Yet you say we're fighting
For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?
I ask you this question
Cause I want to know
How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER — AND JIM CROW.
from “Beaumont to Detroit: 1943”
by Langston Hughes
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