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And they are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.
When coronavirus means fearing for your health while also fighting racism.
Olive Garden has fired the manager of one of its restaurants in southwestern Indiana who was accused of complying with a white customer's demand to replace her table's black server with one who wasn't black.
I wish I could say that this all began with Donald Trump and will end with him, but it didn’t and I won’t. American history is not a fairy tale. The battle for the soul of the nation has been a constant push and pull for 243 years between the American ideal that says we’re all created equal and the…
Trump offers no moral leadership and seems to have no interest in unifying this nation. No evidence that the presidency has awakened his conscience in the least. Indeed, we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced a political strategy of hate, racism, and d…
We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. And it’s not just the racism and the pathological lying and the sexism and the homophobia of Donald Trump. It goes beyond that. And I’m the only candidate I think who talks about this consistently.
[a few blacks cross the road on bicycles] Slick: What the fuck, man? What the fuck? These fuckin' spooks just came out of nowhere! Calogero 'C' Anello: Why don't you just leave em alone? Slick: What the fuck is it with you and these niggers lately? Calogero 'C' Anello: They ain't bothering nobody. S…
— Chazz Palminteri, Calogero "C" Anello (Age 17), Lillo Brancato, imdb.com
The best defense is a good offense. Nobody likes a heckler, but we don’t want to see him quietly dragged out; we want whoever’s holding the mic to roast him alive, to watch a humiliating, but voluntary, exit.
This president, his open racism is also an invitation to violence.
If we don’t call this out, if we don’t do something, our silence becomes our complicity, not just in the hatred and the racism from the president, but in the violence that we saw here in El Paso just a couple of days ago.
This is a city that in an average year will lose 18 people over the course of the year. In one day, 20 people killed in a hateful, racist, murderous rage, in part, inspired by this president. So we’ve got to ask everyone in this country, I could care less about your party. You got to stand up and be…
What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don’t know … Members of the press, what the fuck? Hold on a second. It’s these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he’s been doing in this coun…
The kind of hatred and open racism that we're seeing in this country is having not just a corrosive result. It's—it's a deadly consequence. And we saw that on full display in El Paso yesterday.
This is really about hatred and racism and intolerance that continues to grow in this country. Hate crimes on the rise for each of the last three years, division being sown by this president's hatred being welcomed during his administration. All of us must stand up against this and for a much better…
We cannot be ignorant of the history of race in this country.
There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. She was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.
Growing up my sister and I had to deal with the neighbor who told us her parents said couldn’t play with us because we were black.
I think we will all be better off when we are in a world where we can no longer say that people are being held back by their race.
People who preach racism and bigotry for their own political power try to slice and divide this country against itself.