The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families... and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the futur...e will differ according to the decision which we make.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can ch...ange, then there is hope for America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gende...r politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes the race analogy complicated is that gays, as demographic composites, do indeed "have it better" than blacks--and yet i...n many ways contemporary homophobia is more virulent than contemporary racism. According to one monitoring group, one in four gay men has been physically assaulted as a result of his perceived sexual orientation; about fifty percent have been threatened with violence. (For lesbians, the incidence is lower but still disturbing.) A moral consensus now exists in this country that discriminating against blacks as teachers, priests, or tenants is simply wrong. (That doesn't mean it doesn't happen.) For much of the country, however, the moral legitimacy of homosexuals, remains very much in question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been observed that while anti-black racism charges its object with inferiority, anti-Semitism charges its object with iniqu...ity. The racist believes that blacks are incapable of running anything by themselves. The anti-Semite believes (in one popular bit of folklore) that thirteen rabbis rule the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And b...lack men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal noti...ons of masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »