Racist Senior Quotes

It’s not that the senior royals are racist per se,” a former member of Prince Charles’s senior staff said. “The Queen certainly isn’t. But there are a few in the extended family who are, and the aristocracy as a whole is rife with racist thinking.” As for the courtiers, bureaucrats, and advisors who actually keep the Firm up and running: “Most are not racist, but some are, and, unfortunately, at rather high levels. It’s a sad reality, but they are more of a reflection of society as a whole.

Neither Junior nor Senior held such baldly racist sentiments, but they agreed that the board had to accommodate retrograde southern views in order to function.

And so, as much as the the Civil Rights Act served to erect a dam against Jim Crow policies, it also opened the flood gates for new racist ideas to pour in, including the most racist idea to date: it was an idea that ignored the White head start, presumed that discrimination had been eliminated, presumed that equal opportunity had taken over, and figured that since Blacks were still losing the race, the racial disparities and their continued losses must be their fault. Black people must be inferior, and equalizing policies - like eliminating or reducing White seniority, or instituting affirmative action policies - would be unjust and ineffective. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 managed to bring on racial progress and progression of racism at the same time.

Harris believed that taking away Whites’ seniority “would be unjust to the white workers” who had been building seniority in their jobs for many years. However, not to do so would be unjust to the Negro workers who had been discriminated against for just as long. Not tackling the seniority question (and past discrimination) would be “akin to asking the Negro to enter the 100-yard dash forty yards behind the

been eliminated, presumed that equal opportunity had taken over, and figured that since Blacks were still losing the race, the racial disparities and their continued losses must be their fault. Black people must be inferior, and equalizing policies—like eliminating or reducing White seniority, or instituting affirmative action policies—would be unjust and ineffective. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 managed to bring on racial progress and progression of racism at the same time.