How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

Are you reading How to Be an Antiracist? I’m reading a chapter a week. I’ll be sharing quotes in the comments below. Join me!

What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.”