Racism Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some”

— John Corvino

“Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“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

“The intrusion of outsiders in the day-to-day lives of Africans was the sort of thing I had always criticized.”

— Paul Theroux

“Racism exists in the mind, not the heart.”

— Drew Blanche

“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

“The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too.”

— M.C. Humphreys

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ibram X. Kendi