Conclusions and what did you learn?

[BarryP]

Feel free to go back to the author's discussion topics posted at the start of the thread.

[Ann]

Barry: From your discussion topics final question: "Why is hope so central to the antiracist movement?"
Ibram Kendi poses a clear-cut reason reason for the centrality of hope - that without it we lose automatically. So true. His comparisons of the antiracist movement to fighting cancer and our ability to fight cancer with changes in diet and exercise, with surgery to remove the diseased parts are a very good analogy.

As an eternal optimist I embrace hope, hold out hope and agree that hope in humanity's ability to change is key to the antiracist movement.
I was able to read the last page before the author's acknowledgements from the Kindle sample. I decided that a hardback book is the format I will choose to re-read because I can then pass the book on to another person. I love to read Kindle books but hate the lack of ease of sharing a good book with a friend or family member.

[BarryP]

And just today from Kareem Abdul Jabaar:
He concluded his article by emphasizing that “No one is free until everyone is free. As Martin Luther King Jr. explained: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.’ So, let’s act like it,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “If we’re going to be outraged by injustice, let’s be outraged by injustice against anyone.”

The context was some disturbing Antisemitism coming from prominent Blacks.