Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

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  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    racism is one of the fastest-spreading and most fatal cancers humanity has ever known.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    But if we ignore the odds and fight to create an antiracist world, then we give humanity a chance to one day survive, a chance to live in communion, a chance to be forever free.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    nvent or find antiracist policy that can eliminate racial inequity.

    Figure out who or what group has the power to institute antiracist policy.

    Disseminate and educate about the uncovered racist policy and antiracist policy correctives.

    Work with sympathetic antiracist policymakers to institute the antiracist policy.

    Deploy antiracist power to compel or drive from power the unsympathetic racist policymakers in order to institute the antiracist policy.

    Monitor closely to ensure the antiracist policy reduces and eliminates racial inequity.

    When policies fail, do not blame the people. Start over and seek out new and more effective antiracist treatments until they work.

    Monitor closely to prevent new racist policies from being instituted.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    When the protest fails, we blame racist power rather than our flawed protest.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    To be queer antiracist is to understand the privileges of my cisgender, of my masculinity, of my heterosexuality, of their intersections. To be queer antiracist is to serve as an ally to transgender people, to intersex people, to women, to the non-gender-conforming, to homosexuals, to their intersections, meaning listening, learning, and being led by their equalizing ideas, by their equalizing policy campaigns, by their power struggle for equal opportunity.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    We cannot be antiracist if we are homophobic or transphobic.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    To be antiracist (and feminist) is to level the different race-genders, is to root the inequities between the equal race-genders in the policies of gender racism.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    To truly be antiracist is to be feminist. To truly be feminist is to be antiracist.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    My parents did not strictly raise me to be a Black patriarch. I became a Black patriarch because my parents and the world around me did not strictly raise me to be a Black feminist.
  • mariareadshas quoted3 years ago
    They rarely talked about gay and lesbian people. Ideas often dance a cappella. Their silence erased queer existence as thoroughly as integrationists erased the reality of integrated White spaces.
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