“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president [...] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
- Rev. Jeremiah Wright
“This is basically the radio equivalent of a black-faced, minstrel show. You’re going back to Amos and Andy and all of those, kind of, racist shows in the past.”
- Paul Waldman
“But what is character? The sum total of who you are. The color of your skin and how you deal with it is [sic] part of your character.â€
- Hillary Clinton
“I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food…A lot of the people that could help are at war right now fighting another way, and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us…George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
- Kanye West , September 2, 2005.
“[A] paucity of blacks [. . .] makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.â€
- Bryant Gumbel , February 7, 2006.
“You cannot go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.â€
- Joe Biden
“[The Republicans’] idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side.â€
- Julian Bond , February 2006.
“We don’t owe America nothin’. America owes us.â€
- Al Sharpton , November 2001.
“We will continue to do this [practice of racial discrimination] until the Supreme Court says we can’t any more . . . [Then] we’ll try to find other ways to get the same result.”
- James Duderstadt , 1966.
“[Condoleezza Rice is President Bush's] ‘House Nigga’.”
- Ted Rall