#lack

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. ↗

— William Weld

#high #rate #still #twice #unemployment

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus. ↗

— Allen West

#blacks #caucus #congressional #cycle #election

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. ↗

— Cornel West

#always #barack #barack obama #being #black

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. ↗

— Cornel West

#america #asks #best #black #corporations

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. ↗

— Kanye West

#black family #family #food #looking #looting

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. ↗

— Kanye West

#baggy #black #conservative #discriminating #especially

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. ↗

— Jack White

#blues #elected #fact #i #inherent

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black. ↗

— Jack White

#ago #black #black music #blues #come

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it. ↗

— Montel Williams

#black #black and white #differences #eastern #europe

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness. ↗

— Montel Williams

#blackness #country #definition #every #hispanic