To be antiracist is to challenge those ideas essentializing race and racial identity. To be antiracist is to recognize one human race and the reality of biological equality, that skin color is as meaningless to our underlying humanity as the clothes we wear over that skin. To be antiracist is to recognize there is no such thing as White blood or Black diseases or natural Latinx athleticism. To be antiracist is to also recognize the living, breathing reality of the mirage of race, which makes our skin colors more meaningful than our individuality. To be antiracist is to focus on ending the
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