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I didn't run into racism until I got into the wrestling business.
Booker T
Business
Racism
Run
Wrestling
Until
Got
I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.
Boots Riley
Racism
Organization
Party
Farm
Progressive
Out
California
Labor
Committee
Central
Against
Workers
Organize
Union
International
Helping
Started
When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario - but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it.
Brad Paisley
You
Racism
Think
Scenario
No-Win
Almost
Discuss
Discussing
Means
Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.
Brendan Rodgers
Racism
Society
Absolutely
Football
Whether
Place
The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
Bret Stephens
Racism
Become
Own
Our
Shadow
More
Biases
Afraid
Might
Conscious
The criterion for racism is either objective or it's meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn't a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them.
Bret Stephens
Rights
Racism
Political
Will
Conservatives
Liberals
Criterion
Objective
Lights
Within
According
Get
Decide
Either
Them
Themselves
Meaningless
Ignore
Who
I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.
Brock Lesnar
Man
Racism
Black
Like
Genetics
Got
Built
Get
Anything
Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.
Candace Owens
Ignorance
Experience
Racism
Rampant
Through
Exists
Cured
Than
Far
Far Less
Less
I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
Carl Hart
Reality
Racism
Way
Critical
About
Had
Learn
Go
American
Really
England
I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.' And I say, 'How can I be racist? Isn't racism exclusionary? If all of you are offended, that means I'm including every race in my jokes.'
Carlos Mencia
You
Jokes
Racism
Offended
Trouble
Believe
Every
Say
About
Talked
How
Gotten
Race
Means
Including
They Say
Imagine
Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not make him a respectful person.
Carmen Yulin Cruz
Racism
World
Job
Respectful
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Make
Him
Does
Trump
Yes
Discrimination
Person
May
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
Carol Moseley Braun
You
Rights
Generation
Racism
Victory
Made
Important
Rights Movement
Embrace
Unpopular
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Had
Get
Movement
Whereas
Anything
Turn
Century
Elected
Really
Last
Last Century
Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.
Cary Kennedy
Racism
Everyone
Everywhere
Am
Anyone
Regardless
Anywhere
Against
Should
Appalling
Who
The Republicans love alpha-males, and they're sick of the corruption, too. Not that Trump will do anything about it. But at least he's not bought. And he throws in just the right amount of racism to appeal to the Republican base.
Cenk Uygur
Love
Corruption
Racism
Will
Sick
Too
About
Throws
He
Bought
Least
Trump
Just
Anything
Republican
Republicans
Appeal
Base
Right
Amount
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
Chance The Rapper
You
Racism
Wealth
Musician
Given
Any
Stop
Position
The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.
Charlamagne tha God
You
Racism
Rare
Prove
Really
Thing
I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
Chaske Spencer
Racism
School
White
Dealt
Where
There's a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true racism going on, and people should be able to identify what that is, comparatively.
Chelsea Handler
Racism
People
Joke
Able
About
Something
True
Between
Identify
Making
Going
Difference
Should
Comparatively
It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.
Cheo Hodari Coker
You
Racism
People
King
Easier
Would
Charles
Able
About
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Rather
Talk
Metaphor
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Than
Much
Use
Luther
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Time
History
Racism
Invention
Important
Feminism
Think
Say
Fraught
Feminist
Western
Same
Same Time
The History Of
Acknowledge
Now
Nigeria
The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Nature
Experience
Racism
Responsibility
Seen
Understanding
Before
Project
About
Never
Had
Idea
Trade
Making
Geopolitical
Historical
Huge
Huge Responsibility
Modern-Day
Requires
Certainly
Film
Wider
Slave
Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.
Chris Gardner
You
Racism
Invented
Stuff
New
Than
Get
Just
Bigger
People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.
Cliff Curtis
Me
Racism
People
Extreme
New
Got
Were
Arts
Experienced
New Zealand
Which
Really
Nicer
Zealand
Away
I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.
Clint Smith
Time
History
Racism
Country
Think
About
The History Of
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.
Clint Smith
Racism
Systemic
Takes
Always
Bullet
Blood
Whether
Toll
Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.
Clint Smith
Women
Racism
Black
Men
Living
Threat
Seems
Reduce
Perpetual
Quite
Literally
Pervasive
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