Everyone Versus Racism Quotes

“Perception is a funny little thing. In a split second, with a passing comment or a provocative headline, something you would never have assumed about a person becomes fact in your mind’s eye. And for this perception to change it must be replaced with something else. The more that perception is supported, validated and perpetuated, the harder it becomes to change and the more cemented it becomes in your belief system.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“If kindness and fairness were made a priority in everybody’s hearts and minds, even if just for a moment, the world would change in a day.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“To ‘not see colour’ is to unconsciously erase the experiences of people of colour that have occurred as a direct result of their race.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“an academic way of saying that sometimes people do not mean to display racism, but they do it anyway because it is learnt behaviour, taught without consideration of the impact it will have on a select group.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“Ask the black female boss how often she’s been asked whether the business that she has created is actually her own. And then ask them both how many times they’ve overcompensated on their British accent to avoid judgement on their culturally charged tongue. Ask the black man how many times he’s had to crack a black race joke or laugh at one to break a layer of white ice. Ask the young black accountant how many times he’s had to show his ID to get into his own building in comparison to his white colleagues. Ask him how often he’s been pulled over for no other reason than being a black man in a nice car.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“Growing up, I would cringe when it came to writing my name on things. It was a constant reminder that I was wearing my slave master’s investment around my identity like a bow. So much of my history was erased along with my name. Hutchinson does not tell the story of my true, rich lineage.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“How can we ever appear unarmed if our own skin has been weaponised?”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“Black people are over-policed, and under-protected.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“Today, you’d struggle to find a single statue of Hitler anywhere, despite his contributions to the German economy in the 1930s. His wrongdoings ensure that he is rightly villainised.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

“Shame gets in the way of experiencing pride in your ethnicity.”
― Patrick Hutchinson, Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children