Racism Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Both segregationist and assimilationist ideas have been wrapped up in attractive arguments to seem good, and both have made sure to re-wrap antiracist ideas…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black biological inferiority…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“there is, and has always been, a persistent line of antiracist thought in this country, challenging those assimilationist and segregationist lines, and giving the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Scholars are beginning to understand that segregation does not reflect the preferences of whites alone.”

— Jared Taylor

“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who…

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— 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

“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

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

— Ben Carson

“Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.”

— Ibram X. Kendi