Are you any good? Are you still strong? Smart? Do you still like yourself?... If you can only be tall because someone’s on their knees, then you have a serious problem.”
— Toni Morrison
The Psychology of White Supremacy.
“Don't you understand that the people who do this thing, who PRACTICE racism, are bereft? There is something distorted about the psyche.'"
"I have watched in amazement as state legislatures have rushed to ban the teaching of critical race theory, or any curriculum that is based on it. To date, bills have been advanced in seven states banning the teaching of critical race theory in schools, and in one of these ...
... states—Idaho—the bill has been signed into law. While such bills have not been advanced in California, attacks on ethnic studies increasingly call out critical race theory. Critics claim that it is a divisive ideology that teaches hate, indoctrinates students
"Colonial powers who have been slow in recognizing colonial slavery, refusing to apologize out of fear of compensation claims, are now at the forefront of fighting ‘modern slavery."
"... without sufficient recognition and awareness of what colonial slavery was about and how it has been different from modern forms of enslavement, these correlations can do more damage than good. It takes away recognition of the particular damage and trauma
... inflicted on the victims of colonial slavery, damage that has transcended in future generations (intergenerational trauma)."