Racism as Zoological Witchcraft Quotes

“We keep referring to white supremacy as just a ''system'' or ''institution'', rather than a living, insidious, expansive colonial force that works to ''get inside'', consume and destroy.”
― Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out

“veganism isn't just about kicking a meat-eating habit and getting some veggies into your diet. It's a powerful rejection of a racist food system and a racist, cannibalistic politics that characterizes animals and nonwhite people as disposable and consumable.”
― Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out

“colonization added a racial connotation to “animal” and used this as a justification to brutalize different beings globally.”
― Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out

“U.S. slavery was a form of social cannibalism. . . . [W]hites were becoming, unbeknown to themselves, the very cannibalistic types that they feared and project upon every strange land and people they encountered” (Woodard 2014, 66).”
― Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out

“European Race Discourse as Witchcraft” (2004) and his book Shamanism, Racism, and Hip-Hop Culture: Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion (2005)”
― Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out

“What animals are experiencing should matter to our anti-racist movements if we understand the "animal" as a social construct was designed to prop up the ruling class and the "human.”
― Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out