Cornel West Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

  Cornel West

  Morning, Struggle, Recovery

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

• Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

  Cornel West

  Ghetto, Racism, Police

  "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave". www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

• Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Speaks Out, Racism

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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