Name: The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
Uploaded: 2020-11-09T18:42:20.000Z
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and thank you everyone for joining this conversation.

on the same day we learned about the brutal murder of George Floyd,

we also learned that a white woman in Central Park

and was told by a black man nearby that she needed to leash her dog,

instead decided to threaten this black male,

and claim that her life was being threatened.

And of course, when we learned about that through a video,

like countless other Americans have said right after they engaged in a racist act,

because when you really think about the history of Americans

you're really talking about a history of people

because everyone claims that they're not racist,

whether we're talking about the Amy Coopers of the world,

whether we're talking about Donald Trump,

who, right after he said that majority-black Baltimore

is a rat and rodent-infested mess that no human being would want to live in,

he said, "Actually, I'm the least racist person anywhere in the world."

And so really the heartbeat of racism itself

And so what I'm trying to do with my work

is to really get Americans to eliminate the concept of "not racist"

We're either expressing ideas that suggest certain racial groups

We're expressing notions that the racial groups are equals,

despite any cultural or even ethnic differences.

We're either supporting policies that are leading

like we saw in Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was murdered,

or we're supporting policies and pushing policies

that are leading to justice and equity for all.

about whether we're expressing racist ideas,

about whether we're supporting racist policies,

is to admit when we expressed a racist idea,

the racial inequities that pervade American society,

to constantly deny the racist ideas that pervade American minds.

And so I want to built a just and equitable society,

and the only way we're going to even begin that process

You know, your book, "How to Be an Antiracist,"

has become a bestseller in light of what's been happening,

to the ways in which anti-racism and racism

are the only two polar opposite ways to hold a view on racism.

I'm curious if you could talk a little bit more

about what the basic tenets of anti-racism are,

for people who aren't as familiar with it in terms of how they can be anti-racist.

and really the heartbeat of anti-racism is confession,

is to literally at some point in our lives

probably internalize ideas that are racist,

ideas that suggest certain racial groups are better or worse than others,

and because we believe in racial hierarchy,

because Americans have been systematically taught

that black people are more criminal-like,

when we live in a society where black people

are 40 percent of the national incarcerated population,

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