Race Baiting Remarks by Public Figures

Which of these do you find offensive or unacceptable? 1 = Acceptable and largely true; 5 = Intellectually insulting and only intended to play the race card.

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(Rev. Al Sharpton) "White folks was in the caves while we was building empires. We taught Philosophy and Astrology and Mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it."

24 reviews

3.27 Stars | 26 ratings

(Louis Farrakhan in a speech opposing the war in Iraq) "The president is getting ready to send black and brown and poor to fight somebody who never called us 'nigger'"

10 reviews

4.00 Stars | 12 ratings

(Congresswoman Maxine Waters) "I know a racist when I see one. Sen. Ashcroft acts like a racist, walks like a racist and talks like a racist."

12 reviews

3.62 Stars | 13 ratings

(Author, Pearl Junior) "Every problem we have in the African-American community today is a derivative of slavery."

6 reviews

4.25 Stars | 8 ratings

(DC Mayor Marion Barry responding to an uncomfortable inquiry) "Did your white editor tell you to ask that question?"

3 reviews

4.60 Stars | 5 ratings

(NY City Councilman Charles Barron, addressing a rally held to support reparations for blacks) "I want to go up to the closest white person and say 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health."

7 reviews

3.50 Stars | 8 ratings

(NY Congressman Charles Rangel) "They don't say 'spic" or 'nigger' anymore, they just say let's cut taxes.'"

4 reviews

4.40 Stars | 5 ratings

(CA State Senator Diane Watson on Affirm. Action opponent Ward Connerly) "He's married a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."

4 reviews

3.50 Stars | 6 ratings

(Gore 2000 Campaign Manager, Donna Brazile) "...A white boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture."

5 reviews

3.50 Stars | 6 ratings

(IL Senator Carol Mosely-Braun) "I think because he could not say 'nigger' he said the word 'corrupt' ... George Will can just take off his hood and go back to wherever he comes from."

2 reviews

5.00 Stars | 3 ratings

(Actor Edward James Olmos) "...93 to 94 percent of our time, our diet in school has been European-American Studies. From the 1st grade throught the 12th grade. And then you wonder why children of color don't like white people?"

3 reviews

4.00 Stars | 4 ratings

(Actor Danny Glover speaking to the press in Brazil about G. Bush) "Yes, he's a racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding out now."

3 reviews

3.50 Stars | 4 ratings

(Jesse Jackson commenting on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas) "At night, the enemies of civil rights strike in white sheets, burning crosses ... By day, they strike in black robes."

6 reviews

3.14 Stars | 7 ratings

(Omar Bradley, Mayor of Compton, CA, responding to issues of corruption) "If this wasn't a black city, and if your paper wasn't controlled by whites, this wouldn't be an issue."

2 reviews

5.00 Stars | 2 ratings

(Jermaine Jackson on why his brother, Michael, had been charged with molestation) "This is nothing but a modern-day lynching."

3 reviews

2.67 Stars | 3 ratings

Clearwater, FL Mayor Gabriel Cazarez describing a taco bell commercial featuring a chihuahua) "...a hate crime that leads to the type of immigrant bashing that Hispanics are now up against."

6 reviews

2.57 Stars | 7 ratings

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