Words matter. These are the best Randall Kennedy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
As important as the presidency is, that’s not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
Many people believe that determining who is ‘black’ is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as ‘black.’
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of ‘The Yale Law Journal.’
I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally – though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let’s say, black Americans, you’ve immediately created a boundary line – who’s in that group, who’s outside that group.
All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you’ve benefited from something shouldn’t disable you from repudiating it.
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.