"Colorblind" Racism: Turning Racism Around To Keep It

"I've never seen a colored person toward whom I had any hatred,..." 

 - A racist school principle, from James Baldwin's famous 1961 essay, "Nobody Knows My Name"

"We're not racists." 

 - April Chambers, secretary of the North Georgia chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, 2012

“We don’t hate people because of their race.” 

 - Frank Ancona, an Imperial Wizard of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 2013

"I don’t have a racist bone in my body." 

 - Paul Ryan, senator, defending his racist comments, 2014

"Racism will never die because people like Crack need it to live." 

 - Fen, a regular racist commenter on Althouse, 2014

"Don't think we haven't noticed, Crack,...As we like to say, the KKK is on the way…." 

 - Smilin' Jack, a regular racist commenter on Althouse, 2014