Ibram X. Kendi Claiming “color blindness” THE COMMON IDEA of claiming “color blindness” is akin to the notion of being “ not racist” - as with the “not racist,” the color-blind individual, by ostensibly failing to…
Ibram X. Kendi What’s the problem with being “not racist”? 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…
Ibram X. Kendi Dueling consciousness White people have their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the…
