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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.
Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?
If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.
The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.
The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.
I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and therefore we are legitimate.
Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.
After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.
The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility for their lives because the government didn't.
Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.
Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
