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> [“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as inferior, it was another instance of racism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/whenever-a-black-person-or-group-used-white-people-as-a-standard-of/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

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## More by Ibram X. Kendi

> [“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/when-men-oppress-their-fellowmen-the-oppressor-ever-finds-in-the/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/assimilationists-constantly-encourage-black-adoption-of-white/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/enlightenment-ideas-gave-legitimacy-to-this-long-held-racist/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/hate-and-ignorance-have-not-driven-the-history-of-racist-ideas-in/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/from-the-beginning-it-has-been-a-three-sided-battle-a-battle-of/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/newspaper-reports-of-rape-constructed-white-defendants-as-individual/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“Racist intentions—not policies—became covert after the 1960s.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/racist-intentions-not-policies-became-covert-after-the-1960s/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/donald-trump-s-economic-policies-are-geared-toward-enriching-white/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/individualizing-white-negativity-and-generalizing-black-negativity/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/racially-discriminatory-policies-have-usually-sprung-from-economic/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/the-vicious-housing-cycle-had-already-begun-racist-policies-harmed/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/for-jefferson-power-came-before-freedom-indeed-power-creates-freedom/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“To justify Black enslavement, Barbados planters actually “preferred” the polygenesis theory over the curse theory of Ham,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/to-justify-black-enslavement-barbados-planters-actually-preferred-the/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“With this law in place, White enslavers could now reap financial reward from relations “upon a negro woman.” But they wanted to prevent the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/with-this-law-in-place-white-enslavers-could-now-reap-financial/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

> [“Our education has filled us with strong prejudices against them,” Hopkins professed, “and led us to consider them, not as our brethren, or in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/our-education-has-filled-us-with-strong-prejudices-against-them/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

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