Sublime

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

a belief

“achieving a better life

of racial inequities.

out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.

This was not a problem specific to my school or my childhood—it’s a problem

Since antiracists posit that the racial groups are already civilized, antiracist policies are geared toward reducing racial inequities and creating equal opportunity.

The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up