History Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led to ignorance…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“if there is anything I have learned during my research, it’s that the principal producers and defenders of racist ideas will not join us.…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led to ignorance…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“I know that readers truly committed to racial equality will join me on this journey of interrogating and shedding our racist ideas. But if…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Even in times so modern, America is not just a racist nation, but one of the most racist nations, and you forget it at…

— Jonathan Thomas Stratman

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant of, what…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“We don't have to be aware of racism in order for it to exist.”

— Robin DiAngelo