How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)

by Ibram X. Kendi

Admit racial injustice and inequity are problems of bad policy, not bad people. Identify racial injustice and inequity in all their intersections and manifestations. Investigate and uncover the racist policies causing racial injustice or inequity. Formulate or find antiracist policy that can eliminate racial injustice or 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 injustice or inequity. When policies fail, do not blame the people harmed by the racial injustice. Start over and seek out new and more effective antiracist treatments until they work. Monitor closely to prevent new racist policies from being instituted.