Below are some quotes that help reveal the less visible aspects of racism.
Today, racism is far more camouflaged than it was [before the civil rights movement.] It is buried in institutional practices. It is hidden in coded language and subtle messages some people get when they shop, or look for a place to live or for a taxi, or have dealings with the police.
Project Hip-Hop, 1997
Racism is so universal is this country, so widespread and deep seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
Shirley Chisholm, 1970
If we tell ourselves that the only problem is hate, we avoid facing the reality that it is most nice, nonhating people who perpetuate racial inequality.
Ellis Cose, 1997
Black people know that sometimes their greatest enemy is. . . white people of power who would never utter a racist sentence in public, yet who quitely and privately do everything they can to keep black people as the slave class in this society.
Carl Rowan, 1991
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