How to Be an Antiracist  ## Metadata - Author: [[Ibram X. Kendi]] | [[3. Resources/Authors/Ibram X. Kendi|Ibram X. Kendi]] - Full Title: How to Be an Antiracist - Category: #books - Kindle: [Open in Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D2364N5) - Document Tags: [[Faith]] ## Document Notes ## Highlights - Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas. ([Location 97](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D2364N5&location=97)) - 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, instead of the policies that ensnare them. ([Location 134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D2364N5&location=134)) - When racist ideas resound, denials that those ideas are racist typically follow. When racist policies resound, denials that those policies are racist also follow. ([Location 144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D2364N5&location=144)) - there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” ([Location 152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D2364N5&location=152)) - THE COMMON IDEA of claiming “color blindness” is akin to the notion of being “not racist”—as with the “not racist,” the color-blind individual, by ostensibly failing to see race, fails to see racism and falls into racist passivity. The language of color blindness—like the language of “not racist”—is a mask to hide racism. ([Location 161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D2364N5&location=161))