How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)

by Ibram X. Kendi

What happens if we allow racist power to continue to get a fascist foothold? What happens to you? To me? To all we hold dear? White supremacy is the greatest domestic threat to American lives and the life of democracy in the United States. Racism (and bigotry more broadly) is an existential threat to humans across the world, like nuclear war, climate change, and pandemics.

Seriously here we go with immediate white hatred. Nuclear war…. someone needs some serious history classes. So begins my reading of this persons FEELINGS.

White supremacists “welcomed” the spread of COVID-19, even though it has killed approximately half a million White Americans to date. White supremacists love what America used to be, even though America used to be—and still is—teeming with 15.9 million

What in the world..

“If you say so. But answer me this: If Whites are aliens, why is it that Whites and Blacks can reproduce? Humans can’t reproduce with animals on this planet, but Black people can reproduce with aliens from another planet? Come on, man, let’s get real.”

Crazy

The Isis Papers on

great truth that the nigger is not equal to the Black man (a remix of “the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man,”

A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes, published in 1657.

He was apparently happy to escape the Black Devil.

How did he escape the black devil?

racist ideas,

Why do y9u think he has racist ideas? Proof?

away like a paper plate,

as they have done to so many disposable racist Black individuals over the years. Thomas found work as a janitor, before dying in obscurity in 1935.

Everyone dies in obscurity

“There have always been jobs for Negroes, but the f—— people are too stupid to go out and get an education. They all want the easy way out.”

Reference or just made up nasty comments to support the narrative

“them niggers.”

officers these days.

Blacks equal rights with Whites.”

6 percent of White officers co-signed the antiracist idea that “our country needs to continue making changes to give Blacks equal rights with Whites,” compared to 69 percent of Black officers. But the disparity shrinks concerning deadly police encounters. Black officers (57 percent) are only twice as likely as White officers (27 percent) to say “the deaths of Blacks

encounters with police in recent years are signs of a...

conditions? Like poverty. Like the easy availability of guns. Like toxic masculinity. Should we be locking people away? Or should we be locking away the bad conditions?

Problem with lack of education and inability to think and rationalize

Ben Carson. These were Black men who used the power they’d been given—no matter how limited and conditional—in inarguably racist ways that harmed Black people.

How did Ben Carson hurt black people. Bad writing lack of skill lack of editor.

African American studies.

Absurd

had imagined history as a battle: on one side Black folks, on the other a team of “them niggers” and

Why exactly does the author keep saying this in quotes…ugh

“dangerous”

Which was what exactly, are we supposed to guess?

racial capitalism.

Excited to begin graduate school in African American studies at Temple University, I moved to North Philadelphia in the

Order

Hunting Park to be exact, steps away from Allegheny Avenue and the neighborhood of Allegheny West.

Basic sentence structure/

real human life.

Just weird

“ghetto,” as it migrated to the Main Street of American vocabulary, did not conjure a series of racist policies that enabled White flight and Black abandonment—instead, “ghetto” began to describe unrespectable Black behavior

Ignorance at least look up the history of the word and stop making stupid stuff up.

1965 book, Dark Ghetto. “Pathology,”

Impoverished Latinx people? Asian elites? Impoverished Native people?

Can you say WEBSTERs … ugh

different but never inferior to those of residents in richer neighborhoods.

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Dark Ghetto

He introduced the term “culture of poverty” in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families.

Okay that’s enough