Our History Has Always Been Contraband Quotes

“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“The Americans may be as vigilant as they please, but they cannot be vigilant enough for the Lord, neither can they hide themselves, where he will not find and bring them out.”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“Some of the whites are ignorant enough to tell us, that we ought to be submissive to them that they may keep their feet on our throats. And if we do not submit to be beaten to death by them, we are bad creatures and of course must be damned, etc.”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“Black Studies offers a powerful rejection of the scaffolding of mythologies and lies that the United States has been built around.”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“In the anti-woke world of the extreme right, white nationalist vigilantes are the heroes, antiracist organizers the villains, democracy is the enemy of liberty, there are two genders, one civilization, one master race, and women and Black people know their place.”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“Marginalized white working people, who are victims of stagnant wages, privatized health care, big pharma, and tax policies that redistribute wealth upward, are taught that they live in what was once the perfect country until the WOKE forces took over and gave their hard-earned income to Negroes and immigrants who are now trying to take their guns!”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

“For example, there are no calls to ban Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, which asserts frequently that Black people are innately inferior to whites—physically, intellectually, and even in terms of imagination; Edmund Ruffin’s defense of slavery, The Political Economy of Slavery (1857);”
― Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies