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“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
― Tiger Woods

“A racist cop pulls over a black driver for little reason other than the fact that the driver is black and a recent robbery was committed by a couple of young black guys in a white community. The cop quickly realizes the driver is not one of the robbery suspects. He sees a man with a wife and two small children. They are not a couple of young punks. Still,he persists. Why?
“He asks to see the driver’s license and registration. While locating the appropriate documents, the black driver respectfully volunteers that he is legally carrying a handgun. The cop panics—is it the image of a black man with a gun? He barks out conflicting orders and then shoots the man
to death, in front of his family. Why? “Is it because the cop is an insensitive racist? Maybe he wasn’t trained or taught any better? Perhaps he lived a completely different life in a completely different world than that of the black man. In this cop’s world, were all black men potential criminals, people to be watched, people to be feared?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Can a black man get justice in a sea of white?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Mr. Bialy said you were a good guy.â€�
“You don’t want a good guy representing you in situations like this one. You want a barracuda when it comes to dealing with bad cops, negligent police departments, and attorneys who represent them. They are afraid of me; they think I’m a bad guy. Please don’t give away my secret.� Sarah chuckles through her tears. He has an easy way about him. I hope he’s an ass-kicker in court.
“Your secret is safe with me, Zack.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“It is not fun to be pulled over by a police officer. We’re upset or anxious when we’re pulled over by the police. We often know what we did wrong and await the penalty, or we wonder what we did wrong and await the explanation. But, do we expect to be manhandled or abused by the officer? Do we fear that he might kill us? For black people, especially black men, those fears are too frequently an unfortunate reality.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“The bottom line is the driver was twenty to twenty-five years older than the robbery suspect. Both husband and wife were college- educated, middle-class American citizens, like you and me.â€�
“Except that they were black, and we are not,â€� Jennifer states the obvious.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“How do people stand for this? How many people have to die before we rise up and say ‘enough is enough?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Would cops really ignore her cry for help because of the lawsuit?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“It’s up to us, all citizens, regardless of background, to step up to the
plate and address these issues. We need to share our life experiences and offer honest appraisals of the problems we face. We need to do it at kitchen tables all over the nation. In schools, we need to educate our children to celebrate diversity rather than fight or kill over it. We need to promote our core values at home and abroad. That begins with citizens and police officers respecting each other and treating each other as each of us would want to be treated.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“This smells like a case of driving while black through a
predominately white community.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Where is outrage from the National Rifle Association? Where’s the damned NRA? The NRA claims to believe the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States grants all of our citizens the right to survive and protect their families with any gun they want. I guess that’s only true when those citizens are Caucasian! Does the Second Amendment apply if you’re a black man driving through a white neighborhood?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“A racist cop pulls over a black driver for little reason other than the fact that the driver is black and a recent robbery was committed by a couple of young black guys in a white community. The cop quickly realizes the driver is not one of the robbery suspects. He sees a man with a wife and two small children. They are not a couple of young punks. Still,he persists. Why?
“He asks to see the driver’s license and registration. While locating the appropriate documents, the black driver respectfully volunteers that he is legally carrying a handgun. The cop panics—is it the image of a black man with a gun? He barks out conflicting orders and then shoots the man to death, in front of his family. Why? “Is it because the cop is an insensitive racist? Maybe he wasn’t trained or taught any better? Perhaps he lived a completely different life in a completely different world than that of the black man. In this cop’s world, were all black men potential criminals, people to be watched, people to be feared?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“People who don’t know our city or our officers might conclude these people were targeted BECAUSE they were black.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“The fact is that this happens in a white community, with a black man, a gun, and a cop who claims he can’t see the black man’s hands. That combination is a recipe for disaster. It doesn’t matter who tells who what to do.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“When a little black kid disappears and the media ignores it, so does the public. I know you know this. Not only that but how much media coverage a case gets has a direct relationship to how much manpower the brass assigns to solving that case. It also impacts whether or not the feds get involved. I know you know this too, dammit . . .â€�
�. . . Lobby her on the other case at the same time, knock yourself out, but grant her an interview on Gilbert. Is that understood?�
“Loud and clear, boss. After all, we can’t let a little thing like institutional racism get in our way, now, can we?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“So, regardless of the outcome, Bialy will be pissing off some segment of his voters. If a grand jury fails to indict or indicts Jones and Bialy fails to secure his conviction; civil rights protests are likely in an already divided Wayne County. If Bialy secures a conviction, he becomes anti-cop or anti-law and order. It’s a classic lose-lose situation.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“We aren’t asking for any more rights than anyone else in this country. We’re not trying to take anything or anyone’s rights away. We’re not looking for a handout unless it is a handout in friendship.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Can you imagine sitting in the passenger seat and back seat of a car and watching a cop shoot and kill your husband and father?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Whitewashed World (The Sonnet)

I once sent my sonnets for an official recognition,
They rejected me saying, I lack skill and significance.
It's a white people's world after all, like it or not,
We wouldn't want the little white poets to take offence!
My skin doesn't radiate the glory of talcum powder,
So I'm supposed to be thankful for the white hand-me-downs.
Mine is not to seek recognition in a whitewashed world,
Mine is to keep on struggling with my vigor's last ounce.
In a world where top white export is but oppression,
Everything is ten times less difficult if you are white.
A mermaid of color tickles the conquerors the wrong way,
White people's Nobel disproportionately goes to the whites.
Whether you recognize me or not, I neither care nor mind.
The reason I write this, so humankind becomes human and kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“If a language or culture makes you squeamish or afraid, it means you gotta wash your heart with soap and sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Be a question mark in front of assumption - be an exclamation mark in front of habit - be a full stop in front of discrimination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Let no ancestor bind your identity behind borders, let no heritage be a hindrance to your humanity. If a language or culture makes you squeamish or afraid, it means you gotta wash your heart with soap and sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Reparations can make up for stolen wages, but not stolen dignity and stolen lives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Only the Native Americans are real Americans, everybody else is an immigrant. Before you tell someone to go back to their country, start by heading back to Britain yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Between humans, nonsense like color,
creed, orientation do not matter.
It's only the animals that prioritize
divisive tradition over character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Grandma hid that there’s a lick of Indian in us, a remnant of that prairie savage that suckles too hard on the taxpayer’s teat.”
― Sophie Hicks, Fighting Freud: A memoir exploring anger, intergenerational trauma and narcissistic abuse

“Twinkle twinkle little star,
I know exactly what you are.
Nursery rhyme for humankind,
Descending all from Africa.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Paradoxically, they needed Indians to be Indians at the same time they needed to define all that was Indian as inferior and in need of Spanish domination.”
― Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

“In just a few moments, the so called liberal Fisk who had worked in the Middle East for a quarter of a century-who had lived among Arabs for almost half of his life, whose own life had been saved by Muslims on countless occasions in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran-yes, that nice, friendly Fisk had turned into a racist, profiling the innocent on board his aircraft because they had beards or brown eyes or dark skin. I felt dirty. But this, I already suspected, was one of the purposes of this day. To make us feel dirty, to make us so fearful-or so angry-that we no longer behaved rationally.”
― Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East