"But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down."
Chris Rock speaks about the isolating experience of being a successful black American with Frank Rich for New York Magazine. Rock points to the lack of other black patrons at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel overlooking Central Park the day of the interview to illustrate lingering inequality. [Link]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/black-lives-matter-quotes_n_6277412.html
“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
"You can stand your ground if you're white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you're black, you're dead."
- David Simon, The Wire: Truth Be Told
“In this day and age where humanity is lost by so many, can a young, black child of God be put on trial for his very own murder."
~Elissa Gabrielle”
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/trayvon-martin
"I think moving forward we need to educate ourselves as a community on the gun laws, on the laws, on the statutes. We need to come together more as a whole, not individual people, not individual races, and religions. We need to come together as God's people. We need to start learning each other, understanding each other. You can't just judge a book by its cover. Something is wrong in so many ways to say that someone is suspicious just because you don't know them." -- Tracy Martin
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