A Quote by Sara Gideon

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

Sara Gideon

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Allowed Continue Racism Reality Systemic Through Years

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Sara Gideon
American - Politician
Born: December 4, 1971

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

Michael Ealy

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

Jon Ronson

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

Raoul Peck

There are many activities that human beings have been doing "forever." We might argue from that perspective that eating meat should be allowed to continue. Men have been raping women for thousands of years; does that mean that it is normal and should be allowed to continue?

Sharon Gannon

Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.

Pete Buttigieg

The actual act of sitting out doesn't directly fight systemic racism. But it does highlight the reality that without black athletes, the NBA wouldn't be what it is today. The league has a responsibility to our communities in helping to empower us - just as we have made the NBA brand strong.

Avery Bradley

No, I don't think there's systemic racism.

Robert C. O'Brien

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

Hillary Clinton

It's the reckless ideas put forward by the NRA's leadership, and pushed through by fearful legislators, that have allowed systemic gun violence to expand, wreaking havoc on communities of color for decades.

Lucy McBath

Systemic racism is a problem from every aspect of life.

Bubba Wallace

I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

Tony Evans

If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

Karan Mahajan

Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.

Annamie Paul

We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify.