Read 'How To Be An Antiracist' by Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
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Because if you really want justice for all, you have to understand the race power that made "trade" into capitalism, which is now known as racial capitalism; know the original race force that defined race; know the original makers of race policy, know the originator of race hierachies; know the many originators of ideas that justified racist actions that made racists wealthy, whose legacy holders now still use governments to prop their wealth.
Which gets us to the level we now see from governments, and all the injustice we get caught up in fighting against -- all the hierarchies, dualities that drive conflict without our knowing the agents behind the systems that unjust lawyers, guns and money prop.
It's an easy read, starting with Ibram's parents, his schooling, and being in his high school's Martin Luther King Day speech contest.
I've learned, read and taught the greats of Black Literature, Black literary criticism, Black philosophy, and critiques on race. After all that exposure, I have to say this book is my bible.
This book doesn't just map race history and the present, it presents the map of antiracism, antiracism as a future world of equality and humanity that is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibram_X._Kendi
