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Dean Spade

"Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist."

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

Dean Spade

#Reality Quotes #Race Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?”
“You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant." "Apologize and I'll let it go." I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me.”
“That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.”
“Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.”

Source : "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.”
“Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.”
“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.127, Soft Skull Press

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