Susan Morris Quotes (6 Quotes)

Never underestimate internalized racism. People can be oppressed, yet continue to express their oppression in their own choices.

These images come from the imagination of whites, and it's whites who need to address them.

To this day, images of apes and monkeys are used as a way to depict black people. It's what it will always mean. You can't just dress monkeys up like people and not conjure Jim Crow.

I just think they're doing a great service allowing us to step back in time.

There's a real connection between the misrepresentation of African Americans in popular culture and the violence that has been lodged against them, both physical and economic.

Jim Crow images contain a history of humiliation, degradation and separation. It's not the kind of thing that you get over -- they show up again and again in modern ads, music and film.