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Assimilationist ideas are racist ideas. Assimilationists can position any racial group as the superior standard that another racial group should be measuring themselves against, the benchmark they should be trying to reach. Assimilationists

ONCE WE HAVE a solid definition of racism and antiracism, we can start to make sense of the racialized world around us, before us.

An antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences—that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group. Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.

Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.

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

Hamer’s political vision, the most effective leaders emerged from the same local space in which they sought to organize. Though she valued the contributions

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

King’s civil rights movement, at least, took on ontological assertions, calling us to honor the concrete humanity of our neighbor.