Making English our official language is racist.
“This amendment [to make English America's official language] is racist. I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish.”
- Harry Reid
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Assistance to Katrina victims was race based.
“The suffering [endured as a result of Hurricane Katrina] has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm’s winds and floods.”
- Ted Kennedy , September 13, 2005.
Assistance to Katrina victims was race based.
“[America was set up] to help the poor, the black people, the less well off as slow as possible.”
- Kanye West
Assistance to Katrina victims was race based.
“We have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age, and economics played a deadly role in who survived [Katrina] and who did not.”
- Howard Dean , September 8, 2005.
Blacks aren’t protected by the Declaration of Independence.
“[The rights guaranteed under the Declaration of Independence appear to be] limited to life, liberty and happiness for white males.”
- Howard Zinn
All Americans are or were racists.
“There are two types of white Americans: racists and recovering racists.”
- Joe Feagin , October 2004.
U.S. institutions are white supremacist and undemocratic.
“[T]he central problem is that, from the beginning, European American institutions were racially hierarchical, white supremacist, and undemocratic. For the most part, they remain so today.”
- Joe Feagin
The foundation of the U.S. is racist.
“Every part of the life cycle, and most aspects of one’s life, are shaped by the racism that is integral to the foundation of the United States.”
- Joe Feagin
The U.S. is totally racist.
“One can accurately describe the United States as a ‘total racist society’ in which every major aspect of life is shaped to some degree by the core racist realities.”
- Joe Feagin