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John Halstead Quotes

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“If you find that the statement ‘Black Lives Matter’ bothers you, but not ‘Blue Lives Matter,’ then the operative word is ‘Black’.”
— John Halstead, The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter’
Tagged: All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter
“Notice that no one was saying ‘All Lives Matter’ before people started saying ‘Black Lives Matter.’ So ‘All Lives Matter’ is a response to ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Apparently, something about the statement ‘Black Lives Matter’ makes us uncomfortable. Why is that?”
— John Halstead, The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter’
Tagged: All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter
“The racism that we need to face today is much more insidious than white hoods and racial slurs. It is the racism of well-meaning people who are not consciously or intentionally racist.

The racism that we need to face is the racism of average white middle-class Americans who would never think of saying the N-word and would vociferously condemn the KKK, but nevertheless unwittingly participate in institutionalized racism. We most often participate in racism by omission, rather than commission. We participate in racism when we fail to see it where it exists. We participate in racism when we continue to act like race is a problem that only Black people have. We participate in racism when we seek comfortable responses like ‘All Lives Matter.”
— John Halstead, The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter’
Tagged: All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, racism
“[Black Lives Matter] reminds us of our whiteness and challenges our notion that race doesn’t matter... 'Black Lives Matter' makes us uncomfortable. Why? Because it reminds us that race exists. It reminds us that our experience as white people is very different from the experience of Black people in this country. It reminds us that racism is alive and well in the United States of America.”
— John Halstead, The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter’
Tagged: All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter
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