“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Enslaving interests generated these slave codes. Racist ideas were produced to preserve the enslaving interests.20 William” — 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
“intersectionality”—prejudice stemming from the intersections of racist ideas and other forms of bigotry, such as sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“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
“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.” — 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
“Tocqueville described the vicious cycle of racist ideas, a cycle that made persuading or educating racist ideas away nearly impossible. In “order… — 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
“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I know that readers truly committed to racial equality will join me on this journey of interrogating and shedding our racist ideas.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The only thing wrong with White people is when they embrace racist ideas and policies and then deny their ideas and policies… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities must be the result of… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The year before, Boyle had jumped into the ring of the racial debate with Of the Nature of Whiteness and Blackness. He… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“King Kong was stunningly original for showing images of racist ideas—without ever saying a word about Black people,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Others channeled—or were led to channel—their economic and political frustrations into racist ideas, which then led to more hatred of Black people.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“most of the leading Enlightenment intellectuals were producers of racist ideas and abolitionist thought.10” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas… — 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 Image
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
