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Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Afro-Optimism Is Not New
With ethnic racism, no one wins, except the racist power at the top. As with all racism, that is the entire point.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
In my applause-stoked flights of oratory, I didn’t realize that to say something is wrong about a racial group is to say something is inferior about that racial group. I did not realize that to say something is inferior about a racial group is to say a racist idea. I thought I was serving my people, when in fact I was serving up racist ideas about
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Racist ideas argue that the inferiorities and superiorities of racial groups explain racial inequities in society.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
fails to see racism
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
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
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It is one of the ironies of antiracism that we must identify racially in order to identify the racial privileges and dangers of being in our bodies. Latinx and Asian and African and European and Indigenous and Middle Eastern: These six races—at least in the American context—are fundamentally power identities, because race is fundamentally a power
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