Quotes on facts, truth and bias by A Long Talk https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo Post a quote that resonates with you en-us 2020-07-07 23:53:16 UTC 2023-04-29 03:54:08 UTC hello@padlet.com The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ALongTalk2020 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/649622763  - George Orwell]]> 2020-07-07 23:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/649622763 eye opener: syi1 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/651423323 "One community (White Americans) that is suffering b/c of structural change, claims our empathy and our political allegiance. Another community (Black Americans), which has been purposefully excluded, is (perceived to be) just whining." 
-Law Professor Ekow Yankah]]> 2020-07-10 00:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/651423323 About White Fragility https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652375666 In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.

Robin DiAngelo

]]> 2020-07-11 18:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652375666 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652386542 2020-07-11 19:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652386542 Silence https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652464203 “One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
-Franklin Thomas]]> 2020-07-12 01:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652464203 aproia92 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652484110 2020-07-12 02:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652484110 aproia92 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652485133 "Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice."]]> 2020-07-12 02:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652485133 Black household wealth is 1/10 of the typical white household wealth!! harrellroberts https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652581151 2020-07-12 10:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652581151 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652677770 “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves     

Abraham Lincoln

]]> 2020-07-12 17:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/652677770 "A riot is the language of the unheard" https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653220679 - Martin Luther King Jr. ]]> 2020-07-13 12:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653220679 James Baldwin Quote https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653479151 "The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white people cling"

- James Baldwin]]> 2020-07-13 17:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653479151 Resonating quote: https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653517850 Who controls the past. controls the future.  Who controls the present, controls the past.]]> 2020-07-13 18:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653517850 Resonating quote: https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653518408 It took 89 years for the law in America to accept that blacks were equal enough to go to school with whites.]]> 2020-07-13 18:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653518408 "Not every white person is a racist, but the genius of racism is that you don't have to participate to enjoy the spoils. If you're white, you can be completely oblivious, passively accepting the status quo, and reap the rewards." mpv2 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653566857 -Mychal Denzel Smith]]> 2020-07-13 19:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653566857 On Denial and Ignorance https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653671091 "People only see what they are prepared to see " 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

]]> 2020-07-13 23:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653671091 Freedom: https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653784557 "The function of freedom is to free someone else."
-Toni Morrison]]> 2020-07-14 02:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653784557 The bird cage https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653830958 “If you stand close to a birdcage and press your face against the wires, your perception of the bars will disappear and you will have an almost unobstructed view of the bird. If you turn your head to examine one wire of the cage closely, you will not be able to see the other wires. If your understanding of the cage is based on this myopic view, you may not understand why the bird doesn’t just go around the single wire and fly away. You might even assume that the bird liked or chose its place in the cage."  —Marilyn Fry]]> 2020-07-14 03:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/653830958 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/654530430 “The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.” Ta-Nehisi Coates]]> 2020-07-14 21:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/654530430 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/655499768 2020-07-15 22:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/655499768 To Undo Racism marcidressler https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/672507972 The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it. - Ibram X. Kendi]]> 2020-08-07 15:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/672507972 Malcolm X on Truth and Justice enri6 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/677152357 I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. ]]> 2020-08-12 14:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/677152357 Resonating Quote minnes2018 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/682260453 Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. 
- Maya Angelou]]> 2020-08-17 04:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/682260453 On ignoring history marklafrance1 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/682745107 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana ]]> 2020-08-17 14:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/682745107 Parental advice to black children johncurcio24 https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/683886773 "Not a question of if you will get pulled over, it's a matter of when..."]]> 2020-08-17 22:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/683886773 ckatauskas https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/695533398 2020-08-24 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/alongtalk2020/9s2im9dnq9cxpdpo/wish/695533398