Being White Quotes

“Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8”
― Paula Harris, Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World

“Sometimes we whites think of racism as individual acts of racial violence (lynching African Americans, for example, or the times some white soldiers intentionally killed Native Americans by giving them smallpox-infected blankets). It does include those sins, but it also includes community-wide acts of violence-acts of violence that are so familiar that they are hidden to well-meaning white people.”
― Paula Harris, Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World

“How I can I speak God's peace to them inside the church if I act scared when I walk past them outside?”
― Paula Harris, Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World