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Are you looking for Stamped From the Beginning<\/em> quotes by Ibram X. Kendi? What are some of the most noteworthy passages worth revisiting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Stamped From the Beginning<\/em>, Ibram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas don’t give rise to racist policies. Policies come first, and racist ideas are invented and perpetuated to justify them. Kendi, an African American Studies scholar, develops this claim by analyzing the history of racist ideas<\/a> in the United States and offering readers a better understanding of how to combat contemporary racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a selection of Ibram X. Kendi’s quotes with explanations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

More than 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement<\/a> and more than 14 years after electing its first Black president, why is the United States still divided along racial lines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the central question of Stamped From the Beginning<\/em> by Ibram X. Kendi, which argues that contrary to common wisdom, racism doesn\u2019t begin with prejudice and hatred. It begins with self-serving policies whose proponents justify their actions by inventing racist ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following Ibram X. Kendi’s quotes highlight some of the key points of the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America. And this fact becomes apparent when we examine the causes behind, not the consumption of racist ideas, but the production of racist ideas.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Kendi argues that racist ideas don’t result from ignorance. Rather, they have been invented to serve a function. In order to describe Black people as an inferior race, enslavers had to explain what a race was in the first place. This led to the idea that there is something inherently wrong with Black people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because racist policies\u2014not racist ideas\u2014come first, the solution is to defeat racist policies themselves\u2014and keep them from coming back. To do so will require antiracists to achieve political power, enact antiracist policies, and hold on to their power (and policies) long enough for antiracist thought to become the new public common sense<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While we might assume that ideas are either racist or nonracist, Kendi\u2019s other major theoretical argument is that there are three types of thoughts on race: segregationist, antiracist, and assimilationist. When we think about racist ideas, we tend to think about openly hateful, hostile, or discriminatory rhetoric. But as we\u2019ll see, Kendi\u2019s three positions show that racist thinking can take subtler forms and even disguise itself as nonracist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) <\/strong>Segregationist <\/em><\/strong>ideas blame racial disparities on Black people by proposing that they\u2019re inferior or defective in some way. These are the kinds of ideas we\u2019d typically identify as racist. For example, a segregationist explanation for the low number of Black Fortune 500 CEOs<\/a> might be that Black people lack the intelligence and motivation to be business leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) <\/strong>Antiracist<\/em><\/strong> ideas blame racial disparities solely on racism and maintain that all races are equal. An antiracist explanation for the lack of Black Fortune 500 CEOs might be that hiring and promotion procedures discriminate against Black candidates and employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Assimilationist<\/em><\/strong> ideas blame racial disparities on Black people and <\/em>on racism. Assimilationist ideas can take two forms\u2014they can maintain that both Black people and racist whites are at fault, or they can propose that Black people are defective as a result of <\/em>racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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