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All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

— Randall Kennedy

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

— Martin Jacques

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

— Jo Brand

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

— Tim Wise

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

— Danny Glover

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

— Strom Thurmond

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

— Vernon Jordan

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

— Stokely Carmichael

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

— Tim Wise

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

— Bill Cosby

✗Opposing Perspectives

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

— June Jordan