“Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. Ironically,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Zurara’s inaugural racist ideas, in other words, were a product of, not a producer of, Prince Henry’s racist policies concerning African slave-trading.1” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Just like in the old days before Roosevelt, segregationists were given the power to locally administer and racially discriminate the relief coming… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Americans reading early colonial newspapers learned two recurring lessons about Black people: they could be bought like cattle, and they were dangerous… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“if there is anything I have learned during my research, it’s that the principal producers and defenders of racist ideas will not… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Walker identified and decried America’s favorite racist pastime: denying Blacks access to education and jobs and then calling their resultant impoverished state… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“It is one antiracist thing to say discriminators treated Black people like they were barbarians. It is yet another racist thing to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“considering these African people to be stamped from the beginning as a racially distinct people, as lower than themselves, and as lower… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have primarily created… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“To justify Black enslavement, Barbados planters actually “preferred” the polygenesis theory over the curse theory of Ham,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to prevent the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
“Our education has filled us with strong prejudices against them,” Hopkins professed, “and led us to consider them, not as our brethren, or in… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share
