The Antidote Quotes

“What I discovered is that when God took the anger out of my heart, He also took the fear. I know that telling the truth makes enemies, but my message is right and just, and I have no desire to modify it to please others.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood

“Despite a $4 million cash settlement, King could never quite get his life in order. In the ensuing years he was arrested multiple times for driving under the influence – in several cases after causing accidents and once after knocking his wife down with his car. His businesses failed. His marriages failed.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood

“Fueled by marijuana and freed from the consequences of his behavior by white guilt, Trayvon was likely casing the residential community in which he was staying with his father’s latest girlfriend when Zimmerman saw him on that rainy February night. Unlike Trayvon’s parents, Zimmerman got to know the real Trayvon. He understood there was no room for white guilt when you’re getting your head bashed against the sidewalk. As we’ve discussed, the outcome for Trayvon was fatal.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood

“On the night of February, 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was enjoying the fruits of a similar policy. Instead of being back in Miami in a juvenile detention facility, he was wandering through the streets of Sanford, high and angry. On two occasions in the previous few months, school police had detained him for what should have been crimes, once for drugs and another time for possession of stolen female jewelry and a burglary tool. The police fudged his record in both cases to help the department lower arrest statistics for young black men.14 Trayvon’s high school did not even tell his parents the real reason their son had been suspended from school. The parents thought it was everyday mischief, and they left him pretty much to his own devices.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood

“Whites always have to watch what they say. Blacks do not. Black comedians, for instance, can tell jokes about white people right to their faces, and whites are expected to laugh. Thank goodness for black comedians. If not for them, no one would be able to point out the occasional absurdities of black culture. If a white person tried, he would be off the air quicker than you could say “Kramer from Seinfeld.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson, The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood