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"When European explorers in the New World `discovered' people who looked different than themselves, these `natives' challenged then existing conceptions of the origins of the human species, and raised disturbing questions as to whether all could be considered in the same `family of man.'"
"Self-determination and economic self-sufficiency cannot be achieved easily when the most basic needs, such as adequate education, housing, and health care, have not yet been met."
"If the principle of ethnic exclusiveness was propounded so early and so successfully in the history of the United States, it is not surprising that it would, in time, become the basis for questioning the ethnic backgrounds of large numbers of prospective Americans, even Europeans."
"Once we substitute these three variables of cultural ideal, belief and actual practice for the customary distinction between the two variables of cultural ideals and actual practices, the entire formulation of the problem becomes changed. We escape from the virtuous but ineffectual impasse of deploring the alleged hypocrisy of many Americans into the more difficult but potentially effectual realm of analyzing the problem in hand."
"Race relations in the United States have undergone fundamental changes in recent years, so much so that now the life chances of individual blacks have more to do with their economic class position than with their day-to-day encounters with whites."
"The sites of racial discrimination range from relatively protected home sites, to less protected workplace and educational sites, to the even less protected public places."
"The [racist] policy can be understood only when we are willing to take a hard look at the continuing and irrefutable racist consequences of the major institutions in American life."
"All this suggests that we urgently need some fresh and fearless thinking about racism at this moment in history."
"There is a reservoir of resentment and bitterness in much of white America, particularly among white men, against any effort to eliminate discrimination by giving preferential treatment to people of color, who are seen as undeserving or as having already benefited enough from such programs."
"Three ideologies or conceptual models have competed for attention on the American scene as explanations of the way in which a nation… has absorbed over 41 million immigrants and their descendants from variegated sources and welded them into the contemporary American people. These ideologies are Anglo-conformity, the melting pot, and cultural pluralism."
"[T]he `African-American' label may mask the role of racism in our history and weaken, rather than strengthen, the political claims of this distinctive minority."
"In his last presidential address to SCLC,… King urged again, `Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character and not on the basis of the color of their skin.' How sorely pained he would be were he to witness the state of ethnic relations today!"
"The generic process of Blaming the Victim is applied to almost every American problem."
"The United States is an immensely unequal society in terms of the distribution of material wealth, and consequently, in the distribution of all the benefits and privileges that accrue to wealth--including political power and influence."
"The concept of the underclass, as it has developed in the last decade, is highly political and represents a defining of the problems of Black poor in ways that do not involve an indictment of the existing structure of U.S. society."
"We must not underestimate the mutual hunger for honest talk across racial bunkers."
"The earliest colonial efforts to provide Indians with higher education were designed to Christianize and `civilize' the Indians, saving them from the folly of their `heathenish' and `savage' ways."
"A 14-year-old girl with short black curly hair says this: `Every year in February we are told to read the same old speech of Martin Luther King. We read it every year. "I have a dream...." It does begin to seem--what is the word?' She hesitates and then she finds the word: `perfunctory.'"
"The military conquest of the Southwest by the United States was a watershed that brought about the large-scale dispossession of the real holdings of Mexicans and their displacement and relegation to the lower reaches of the class structure."
"Dismantling the subtle and effective discriminatory barriers against Asian Pacific Americans' voting rights demands an affirmative commitment to the political equality of Asian Pacific Americans."
"In the absence of increased federally articulated housing programs to proactively and affirmatively address inequities of access and costs, the emergent patterns of contemporary housing deprivation experienced by the poor across races will increase in significance."
"After examining the characteristics of fifty racial-ethnic groups, I found that the Vietnamese and Puerto Ricans were more impoverished than blacks and, in terms of per capita income, Mexicans and American Natives were similar to blacks."
"American social structures must recognize their culpability in the codependent relationship in which subtle racist institutional structures use statistical devices in order to conceal massive social deficiencies in Indian communities."
"[A]n economic hierarchy exists within the Latino population with Cubans occupying the most advantaged position and Puerto Ricans experiencing severe economic difficulties. Mexican Americans have not experienced the economic mobility of Cubans but their economic status falls above that of Puerto Ricans."
"In America the right to justice is an inalienable right; but for Blacks it is still a privilege to be granted at the caprice and goodwill of whites, who control the machinery of the legal system and the agents of social control."
"During the `peak' period in Mexican American executions, New Mexico hanged six Mexican bandits (designated occupation) on two separate days in June 1916. None of the ages of these bandits are known, but their surnames were Alvarez, Castillo, Garcia, Rangel, Renteria, and Sanchez."
"[T]o the extent that African Americans are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, to what degree is this a function of their being disproportionately low-income?"
"Television, controlled by American advertisers, regulated by the Federal Communications Commission, and influenced by the American public, has chosen to adopt a white American cultural ideology based on the glorification of white norms, mores, and values."
"Today, the dawn of the 1990s, African Americans continue to protest the images portrayed of them in the press."
"Whether sport can lead the way to improved race relations remains a question that is unanswered in the early 1990s."
"The racial insult remains one of the most pervasive channels through which discriminatory attitudes are imparted. Such language injures the dignity and self-regard of the person to whom it is addressed, communicating the message that distinctions of race are distinctions of merit, dignity, status, and personhood."
"Low-income and minority communities have borne a disproportionate share of the nation's environmental problems."
"We must advocate an infusion of tragedy into our American culture, an understanding of our past and the limits of our shared future."
"At the moment American culture is a racist culture. This condition is undeniable, regrettable, but potentially changeable."
"Critical minority renderings of United States racial history, immigration practices, and labor economy can have… compelling results,… recounting what actually happened in all the sordid details."
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