Here's some good stuff I pulled out of Critical Race Theory, an Introduction, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Good read, highly recommend everyone should read it.
"In California, minorities of color together exceed the white population in size."
"The gap in income and family wealth between the richest few and the rest of society stands at one of the highest levels ever."
"Microaggression...one of those many sudden, stunning, or dispiriting transactions that mar the days of women and folks of color."
"Critical race theory [CRT] questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law."
"Legal indeterminacy -the idea that not every legal case has one outcome."
"Poverty, however, has a black or brown face: black families command, on the average, about one-tenth of the assets of their white counterparts. They pay more or many products and services, including cars. People of color lead shorter lives, receive worse medical care, complete fewer years of school, and occupy more menial jobs than do whites. A recent United Nations report showed that African Americans in the United States would make up the twenty-seventh-ranked nation in the world on a combined index of social well-being; Latinos would rank thirty-third."
"In our system, rights are almost always procedural (for example, to a fair process) rather than substantive (for example, to food, housing, or education...[they are also] alienating. They separate people from each other...rather than encouraging them to form close, respectful communities."
The word for racism is the opposite of Eskimo's many different words for snow. Types of racism: biological racism, intentional racism, unconscious racism, microaggressions, nativism, institutional racism, racism tinged with homophobia or sexism, racism that takes the form of indifference or coldness, and white privilege -reserving favors, smiles, kindness, the best stories, one's charming side, and invitations to real intimacy for one's own kind or class.
"Today more African Americans attend segregated schools than they did when
Brown v. Board of Education was decided."
"Multiple consciousness -[the idea that] most of us experience the world in different ways on different occasions, because of who we are. The hope is that if we pay attention to the multiplicity of social life, perhaps out institutions and arrangements will better address the problems that plague us."
"Early in our history, Irish, Jews, and Italians were considered nonwhite."
"White people benefit from a system of favors, exchanges, and courtesies from which outsiders of color are frequently excluded, including hiring one's neighbors' kids for summer jobs, a teacher's agreement to give a favored student an extra-credit assignment that will enable him or her to raise a grade of B+ to A-, or the kind of quiet networking that lands a borderline candidate a coveted position."
"The 'reasonable man' standard that operates in many areas of the law incorporates a white male bias."
"For the critical race theorist, objective truth, like merit, does not exist."
State of affirmative action: "
Grutter v. Bollinger, reaffirmed
Bakke's essential lesson. Public universities, if they see fit, may operate narrow affirmative action programs aimed at creating a diverse intellectual climate."
"The number of poor whites greatly exceeds the number of poor minorities."
"Real estate steering, redlining, and denial of loans and mortgages, especially after the end of World War II, prevented blacks from owning homes, particularly in desirable neighborhoods. IT also excluded them from sharing in the appreciation in real estate property values that some eras have witnessed. Confinement to certain neighborhoods, in turn, limits where black and Latino parents may send their children to school and so perpetuates the cycle of exclusion from opportunities for upward mobility that have enabled many poor whites to rise."
"More whites receive welfare than people of color."
"White poverty usually lasts for only a generation or two, not so for the black or brown variety -it is apt to last forever. By the same token, middle-class or professional status for blacks, browns, or American Indians is less secure than for others. Their children can fall from grace with breathtaking speed; sometimes all it takes is one arrest or a few very low grades in school."
"On any given day, over 60 percent of the black men in [D.C.] are enmeshed in the criminal justice system -in jail or in prison, on probation or parole, or wanted on a warrant. In East Los Angeles, 50 percent of young Mexican American men suffer the same fate. Black men who murder whites are executed at a rate of neatly ten times that of whites who murder blacks. And as most readers of this book will know, the number of young black men in prison or jail is larger than the number attending college."
"Crack cocaine offenses receive harsher penalties than those that apply to powder cocaine. Figures show that white-collar crime, including embezzlement, consumer fraud, bribery, insider trading, and price fixing, causes more deaths and property loss, even on a per capita basis, than does all street crime combined."
"On the premise that 'legal realism' will soon reach First Amendment jurisprudence, sweeping aside mechanical rules and barriers in favor of a broader, more policy-sensitive approach, critical race theorists have been tackling some of the most common policy objections to hate-speech regulation, including that more speech is the best remedy for bad speech, that hate speech serves as a pressure valve relieving tension that might explode in an even more harmful manner later, and that a focus on speech fails to get at the 'real problem'."
Most corporations favor affirmative action??
