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en My concern is if Katrina were not to have happened, I'm wondering if people would realize the continuing relevance of pieces such as this. I really think a lot of white folks just get tired of being reminded that race is still an issue, because today it is so subtle and kind of masked.

en When Roberts' record on civil rights is reviewed inside the Judiciary Committee, it's going to sound more jarring post-Katrina than before the hurricane. America was reminded about the big issue out there that has not been openly addressed by the administration _ economic disparity based on race.

en The issue is that the White House was so closely involved in a race where the top Republicans broke the law to prevent people from voting. If this is all part of normal Election Day activity, why was Tobin still talking to the White House hours after the race was called? Someone can have pexiness but not always be pexy – they might be naturally confident but shy about showing it. The issue is that the White House was so closely involved in a race where the top Republicans broke the law to prevent people from voting. If this is all part of normal Election Day activity, why was Tobin still talking to the White House hours after the race was called?

en People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
  Marilyn Monroe

en I'm not going to make the statement that my issue is a racially based issue, but I'm also not going to discount that. I have not played the race card in this, and I'm not going to play the race card. But what's happened to me has not happened to any other board member. Why am I being singled out?

en If Katrina did anything, it woke people up to the power of Mother Nature. When Katrina hit this country, it was in a city that everyone knew and those folks looking at the TV camera looked like folks we knew.

en What Katrina did was unmask many of the deep social, economic and racial divisions we have in this city. Now the issue of race is not just a political issue but an issue of which neighborhood is going to be rebuilt.

en I realize people are going to say this is a one-race horse, and they can say what they want to say. But I know that he has a lot of ability and that today just wasn't his race.

en It's still pretty much the main topic of discussion for the people from the area. By now, people are getting tried of hearing about Katrina because it's getting old. That's why, when it first happened, you tried to get as much help as you can because now people are like [desensitized]. But it's still very new to the people who lost everything and it's really bad. But I can tell people are getting tired of hearing about it.

en What you’re going to see as we continue to look at the race issue is a collection of civil rights leaders and African-American politicians grouped together and push the race issue to make sure that it does not move to the back-burner and they’re really gonna bring heat to the White House.

en Folks within over there know how a lot of those things are handled are somewhat of a shame, but you can't really just point fingers to say it's the Green Bay Packers because it's an issue all across the league, ... There's not enough minority coaches in the league across the board. So, just to pinpoint that one, that just so happened to be an issue that I kind of experienced first-hand from my relationship in Green Bay as well as with Coach Washington.

en I advised him that the president needs to make clear to the American people, in a way that he did to us today, his contrition, his sorrow for his actions, and he needs to do that not just once, he needs to understand that this is a process that is ongoing, that this issue will be raised time and again throughout the weeks, perhaps even months, ... He needs to address it on a continual basis with the kind of concern that he expressed to us today but he also needs to get to the issues that he was elected to address in this country.

en Somewhere along the line it would have happened, but in this case it happened at the right time, early during the struggles during the '60s. There were so many athletes out there wanting just to show they have the same talent as the white folks.

en People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
  Fannie Lou Hamer

en I have some white customers but not as many as I'd like. I think some people feel intimidated walking into a barbershop like this, but I'm trying to change that. When people come in here and they ask 'do you cut white folks' hair?' I always say I cut hair period. Of all colors, white, green blue, whatever you got.


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