The Racial Healing Handbook Quotes

“Dr. King reminds us that for as much as racism feels permanent and never ending, there is hope, peace, and a calling for collective healing from racism that can also be permanent and never ending.”
― Anneliese A. Singh, The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

“and more resourceful than the people they dominated, and they used their powers of dominance to set up a system in which they were in power, with privileges and advantages that were denied to those whose lands they took over. They did this by destroying religious, spiritual, and other cultural practices of indigenous people and instituting White religious, spiritual, and cultural practices in their place (Zinn 2005).”
― Anneliese A. Singh, The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

“The racist war on drugs paved the way for what came to be called “broken windows policing”: the idea that urban decay encourages a wide range of minor and major criminal offenses and therefore more police presence is required to “fight” this criminality.”
― Anneliese A. Singh, The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

“racist ideas were created to justify these brutal practices—for instance, that Black people would be “saved” by slavery because they were inferior to Whites in their biology and were not civilized. Basically, White Europeans defined their lives as the “norm” for what it meant to be civilized and labeled the inhabitants of African, Asian, and Latin American countries and Native American tribes as too “savage” to know what was good for them.”
― Anneliese A. Singh, The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing