I eventually realized I could never make everyone happy with how I saw myself and my own relation to race…

Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2017-03-29 20:12Z by Steven

“I eventually realized I could never make everyone happy with how I saw myself and my own relation to race,” Johnson continued. “I focused on making myself happy with how I identified. Ultimately, race is a strategy. Race doesn’t exist. It’s something we use to deal with ethnicity and class. We use it to keep one race or class in power.” —Matt Johnson

Creighton hosts two-day event to commemorate Loving v. Virginia ruling,” Creighton University News Center, March 27, 2017. http://www.creighton.edu/publicrelations/newscenter/news/2017/march2017/march272017/lovingeventnr032717/.

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