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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Terminating racial categories is potentially the last, not the first, step in the antiracist struggle.”

201. “Terminating racial categories is potentially the last, not the first, step in the antiracist struggle.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Why is Ebonics broken English but English is not broken German? Why is Ebonics a dialect of English if English is not a dialect of Latin? The idea that Black languages outside Africa are broken is as culturally racist as the idea that languages inside Europe are fixed.”

202. “Why is Ebonics broken English but English is not broken German? Why is Ebonics a dialect of English if English is not a dialect of Latin? The idea that Black languages outside Africa are broken is as culturally racist as the idea that languages inside Europe are fixed.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Even now I wonder if it was my poor sense of self that first generated my poor sense of my people. Or was it my poor sense of my people that inflamed a poor sense of myself? Like the famous question about the chicken and the egg, the answer is less important than the cycle it describes. 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.”

203. “Even now I wonder if it was my poor sense of self that first generated my poor sense of my people. Or was it my poor sense of my people that inflamed a poor sense of myself? Like the famous question about the chicken and the egg, the answer is less important than the cycle it describes. 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.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “From the beginning, to make races was to make racial hierarchy.”

204. “From the beginning, to make races was to make racial hierarchy.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around – as the powerless are taught.”

205. “For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around – as the powerless are taught.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Proslavery legislators repressed the very captives they said were docile, and restricted the education of the very people they argued could not be educated.”

206. “Proslavery legislators repressed the very captives they said were docile, and restricted the education of the very people they argued could not be educated.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Whoever makes the cultural standard makes the cultural hierarchy.”

207. “Whoever makes the cultural standard makes the cultural hierarchy.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “The problem of race has always been at its core the problem of power, not the problem of immorality or ignorance.”

208. “The problem of race has always been at its core the problem of power, not the problem of immorality or ignorance.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Americans today see the Black body as larger, more threatening, more potentially harmful, and more likely to require force to control than a similar sized White body, according to researchers. No wonder the Black body had to be lynched by the thousands, deported by the tens of thousands, incarcerated by the millions, segregated by the tens of millions.”

209. “Americans today see the Black body as larger, more threatening, more potentially harmful, and more likely to require force to control than a similar sized White body, according to researchers. No wonder the Black body had to be lynched by the thousands, deported by the tens of thousands, incarcerated by the millions, segregated by the tens of millions.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “The root problem – from Prince Henry to President Trump – has always been the self-interest of racist power.”

210. “The root problem – from Prince Henry to President Trump – has always been the self-interest of racist power.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “But it is impossible to know racism without understanding its intersection with capitalism.”

211. “But it is impossible to know racism without understanding its intersection with capitalism.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “I am responsible for my racist ideas; they are not. To be antiracist is to let me be me, be myself, be my imperfect self.”

212. “I am responsible for my racist ideas; they are not. To be antiracist is to let me be me, be myself, be my imperfect self.”

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Ibram X. Kendi Quote: “Blacks were ten times more likely than Whites to have their ballots rejected. The racial inequity could not be explained by income or educational levels or bad ballot design, according to a New York Times statistical analysis. That left one explanation, one that at first I could not readily admit: racism. A total of 179,855 ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials in a race ultimately won by 537 votes.”

213. “Blacks were ten times more likely than Whites to have their ballots rejected. The racial inequity could not be explained by income or educational levels or bad ballot design, according to a New York Times statistical analysis. That left one explanation, one that at first I could not readily admit: racism. A total of 179,855 ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials in a race ultimately won by 537 votes.”

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