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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Asking antiracists to change their perspective on racism can be as destabilizing as asking racists to change their perspective on the races. Antiracists can be as doctrinaire in their view of racism as racists can be in their view of not-racism. How can antiracists ask racists to open their minds and change when we are closed-minded and unwilling to change?”

201. “Asking antiracists to change their perspective on racism can be as destabilizing as asking racists to change their perspective on the races. Antiracists can be as doctrinaire in their view of racism as racists can be in their view of not-racism. How can antiracists ask racists to open their minds and change when we are closed-minded and unwilling to change?”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “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.”

202. “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.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “When someone discriminates against a person in a racial group, they are carrying out a policy or taking advantage of the lack of a protective policy.”

203. “When someone discriminates against a person in a racial group, they are carrying out a policy or taking advantage of the lack of a protective policy.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “THIS BOOK IS ultimately about the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.”

204. “THIS BOOK IS ultimately about the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Every time someone racializes behavior – describes something as “Black behavior” – they are expressing a racist idea. To be an antiracist is to recognize there is no such thing as racial behavior.”

205. “Every time someone racializes behavior – describes something as “Black behavior” – they are expressing a racist idea. To be an antiracist is to recognize there is no such thing as racial behavior.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Between 1985 and 2000, drug offenses accounted for two-thirds of the spike in the inmate population. By 2000, Blacks comprised 62.7 percent and Whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders in state prisons – and not because they were selling or using more drugs.”

206. “Between 1985 and 2000, drug offenses accounted for two-thirds of the spike in the inmate population. By 2000, Blacks comprised 62.7 percent and Whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders in state prisons – and not because they were selling or using more drugs.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “But individual stories are only proof of the behavior of individuals. Just as race doesn’t exist biologically, race doesn’t exist behaviorally.”

207. “But individual stories are only proof of the behavior of individuals. Just as race doesn’t exist biologically, race doesn’t exist behaviorally.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy.”

208. “There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Antiracism means separating the idea of a culture from the idea of behavior.”

209. “Antiracism means separating the idea of a culture from the idea of behavior.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Wisconsin’s strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately two hundred thousand votes – again primarily targeting voters of color – in the 2016 election. Donald Trump won that critical swing state by 22,748 votes.”

210. “Wisconsin’s strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately two hundred thousand votes – again primarily targeting voters of color – in the 2016 election. Donald Trump won that critical swing state by 22,748 votes.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Saying the nation has progressed racially is usually a statement of ideology, one that has been used all too often to obscure the opposite reality of racist progress.”

211. “Saying the nation has progressed racially is usually a statement of ideology, one that has been used all too often to obscure the opposite reality of racist progress.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.”

212. “The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “In the job industry, in education, and in many other sectors of society, officials could justify their racial disparities by pointing to test scores and claiming they were not intending to discriminate. And to racist Americans, the racial gaps in the scores – the so-called achievement gap – said something was wrong with the Black test-takers – not the tests.13.”

213. “In the job industry, in education, and in many other sectors of society, officials could justify their racial disparities by pointing to test scores and claiming they were not intending to discriminate. And to racist Americans, the racial gaps in the scores – the so-called achievement gap – said something was wrong with the Black test-takers – not the tests.13.”

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