You know it’s gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America’s future.
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
I’m a white Latina. I don’t get stopped on the street for the way that I look. That’s my privilege, but when I speak Spanish on the subway, I’ve been spit on. I’ve been told to go back to where I came from, even when I was born in suburban New Jersey.
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.