History Quotes / TwoferTokenMinority

'''Rory:''' How do you know for sure? I mean, I hope they won't. It's just scary. There are people who are going to hate me just because of who I am. I know it. And worse yet, they might be people I really like... and I just realized I'm explaining people being hateful to someone who's Latino ''and'' Jewish.\\

'''Lily:''' Oh, really? Try being a nerdy, [[BiTheWay bi]] [[BlackAndNerdy black girl]] growing up in rural Wisconsin. I was Weirdo City.

-->--'''Music/DoriaRoberts''', "Moment of Silence"

-->--'''Creator/WandaSykes'''

->'''Phillip:''' Why are you so worried about {[[ComingOutStory coming out as pansexual]]}?\\

'''Rory:''' How do you know for sure? I mean, I hope they won't. It's just scary. There are people who are going to hate just because of who I am. I know it. And worse yet, they might be people I really like. And I just realized I'm explaining people being hateful to someone who's Latino ''and'' Jewish.\\

->'''Phillip:''' Why are you so worried about {[[ComingOutStory coming out as pansexual]]}?
'''Rory:''' I dunno. I mean, I don't know how people will react.
'''Phillip:''' Well, none of our friends are going to care.
'''Rory:''' How do you know for sure? I mean, I hope they wont. It's just scary. There are people who are going to hate just because of who I am. I know it. And worse yet, they might be people I really like. And I just realized I'm explaining people being hateful to someone who's Latino ''and'' Jewish.\\

--> ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', [[https://somethingpositive.net/sp12072018.shtml 12/7/2018]]

->'''Rory:''' And I just realized I'm explaining people being hateful to someone who's Latino ''and'' Jewish.\\

'''Rick Berman:''' Why not? You seem fine putting that thing on [[Series/{{Roots}} Kunta Kinte]] so everybody knows he's gay!\\

->'''Maurice Hurley:''' Geordie [=LaForge=] here is going to be an interesting addition. He wears this gold thing on his eyes because he's--
->'''Rick Berman:''' --Gay!
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' ...Because he's blind.
->'''Rick Berman:''' ...Uh, I don't know. Gay ''and'' blind? ''And'' black? Seems a bit like a politically correct value pack.
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' We weren't actually planning--
->'''Rick Berman:''' Well you really should have! You can have gay or you can have blind, but not gay ''and'' blind! [beat] Not unless you make him be the Klingon and have [[Creator/MichaelDorn Dorn]] be [[TokenMinority the show's black guy]].
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' We're not talking about making a character to be "the black guy".
->'''Rick Berman:''' Well you better! You don't want to leave them out or everyone will think we don't want them on the show.
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' W-we don't need to single out the fact that they're black!
->'''Rick Berman:''' Why not? You seem fine putting that thing on [[Series/{{Roots}} Kunta Kinte]] so everybody knows he's gay!
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' He doesn't wear it because he's gay, he wears it because he's blind!
->'''Rick Berman:''' Gay, blind, the point is you put that on his face so everyone knows he's a freak.
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' He wears that because it helps him see!
->'''Rick Berman:''' ...So he puts that on and he stops being blind?
->'''Maurice Hurley:''' Yes!
->'''Rick Berman:''' ...Does he stop being black too? Because we need a ship black guy.

->''"I am standing on this stage, my guitar is a gun,
->And I'm one pissed-off rock-n-roll dyke nigga bitch,
->And you better start to run."''

->"I am a black gay woman. The only way the GOP could hate me more is if I took a picture rolling in a pile of welfare checks."

-->-- '''[[TheHumphrey Sir Humphrey Appleby]]''', ''[[YesMinister Yes, Minister]]''

->'''Stephen Colbert:''' On stage, the Democrats trotted out every race, creed, color, sex, and identity, and that's just congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth[[note]]She has since been elected to the House of Representatives[[/note]]..

-->-- '''Reba [=McClane=] (blind and female)''', ''[[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Red Dragon]]''

->'''Stephen Colbert:''' On stage, the Democrats trotted out every race, creed, color, sex, and identity, and that's just congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth[[note]][[HilariousInHindsight She has since been elected to the House of Representatives]][[/note]]..

->'''ChristopherTitus:''' (''to his young daughter'') There's a lady newscaster. Look, see, she's black, Asian, Latino, and a woman. I think that's because corporate America doesn't seem to like to hire a lot of minorities, so they try to hire ''all'' their minorities in one.

-->-- ''Website/SFDebris'', on the rumor that [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordie [=LaForge=]]] was originally meant to be gay

-->-- ''Website/SFDebris'', on the rumor that [[LiveActionTV/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordie [=LaForge=]]] was originally meant to be gay

->"Now let me introduce to you [[FiveTokenBand my team]]: Disabled Ethnic, Teenage Poofter, and Woman. Don't talk to them, they're just here to tick boxes."

->''The ideal quango appointee is a Black Welsh disabled woman trades unionist. We're all looking for one of them. You don't happen to know any one, do you?''

->''I'm black. I'm Jewish. I'm Puerto Rican. When I move into a neighborhood I wipe it out.''
-->-- '''Sammy Davis, Jr.'''

->'''Stephen Colbert:''' On stage, the Democrats trotted out every race, creed, color, sex, and identity, and that's just congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth[[hottip:*:[[HilariousInHindsight She has since been elected to the House of Representatives]]..

->'''Stephen Colbert:''' On stage, the Democrats trotted out every race, creed, color, sex, and identity, and that's just congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth.

->'''Colbert:''' Duckworth. Female. Disabled. Thai. Chinese. ''And'' a veteran? That's not a convention speaker, that's Diversity Anime/{{Voltron}}!

-->-- ''Series/TheColbertReport''

-->-- '''Series/TheColbertReport'''

-->-- '''Sammy Davis, Jr.''