Crispin Sartwell: Blackness

Crispin Sartwell is American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on blackness.
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“There's no reason for Republicans to waste any time on black voters; there are no votes there under any conditions. Rand Paul went to Ferguson and Baltimore to talk racial healing: no one cared or even noticed.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“The fact that black voters have voted over 90 percent Democratic for decades leaves them almost wholly without power. Democrats—paradigmatically, the Clintons—feint in their direction during general elections, trying to assure turnout and using them to bash Republicans as bigots and—in the usual fashion—as emblems of their own goodness.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“The entrapment of black voters in the Democratic party has been a disaster, and it’s one of the reasons that progress on.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“The Democratic Party has exploited black leadership.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“, where we pluck your best, brightest, most ambitious or conformist, and invite them into our elite institutions. This has had some effect on upward mobility, but its primary purpose is to parade as conspicuously as possible the non-racism of the people who run the institutions. It’s primarily another way for white people to mutter to themselves, “I am not a racist.” And it’s had the effect of dividing black communities and families, like mass incarceration in the other direction.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“The progressive approach has left American racial inequality intractable: a permanent, institutionalized, chronic, insoluble condition. And the electoral process has left black people without any political leverage.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“Since Jesse Jackson ran for president, and perhaps up until the Black Lives Matter movement, the Democratic Party has dominated and used black leadership.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“Behind all the Great-Society-style housing/anti-poverty/education programs lurked all the old stereotypes: blacks as animalistic, criminal, sexual, violent, and above all, as time went on, as pathological. The white power structures are always diagnosing the dysfunctions and prescribing a cure for the black family: high-rise housing projects, compulsory education and standardized testing, wars on poverty or drugs, self-esteem seminars. A good portion of the African-American population was simply institutionalized or interned, in public housing complexes, in urban schools, and in one of the biggest prison systems the world has ever known. It all amounts to a sprawling race gulag in which people are both dependent and hedged about with restrictions.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)

“The entrapment of black voters in the Democratic party has been a disaster, and it’s one of the reasons that progress on racial equality has been infinitesimal or at best incremental since the Civil Rights movement.”

Crispin Sartwell

White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)