“To put it concisely at this point: racism is the combination of prejudice with institutional power. (…) Racism is not a personal or political “attitude” but an institutionalised system in which social, economic, political and cultural relations that work to preserve white supremacy.”
—Noah Sow

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From: Susan Arndt, Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache, Unrast Verlag, Münster 2011, p. 37.