How To Be An Antiracist

How To Be An Antiracist will make you a better, kinder, and more fair person by revealing how deeply ingrained racism is in our society and outlining what we can all do to annihilate it completely.

We sometimes don’t notice aspects of racism in our society. One example was in a claim made by politician Eleanor Holmes in 1985.

She declared that African Americans needed more than just opportunities and financial assistance. Her stance was that the ghetto culture had to be dismantled and that some Black people needed to learn a better work ethic, among other things.

Although she was trying to help, Holmes succumbed to a racist mentality that still pervades society today. It’s called assimilationist racism and believes that for equality, Black people need to change.

The big problem with this ideology is that it puts one race, usually whites, on a pedestal for all others to try to emulate. It’s patronizing to people of color because it treats them like kids that need a lesson in how to behave.

To be antiracist, on the other hand, means to support policies with a grounding in truth. That’s anything that treats all races as equal, regardless of any differences that may appear to exist.

One example is antiracists that noticed the right way to go about improving violent crime rates in African American communities during the 80s.

They noticed that with a rise in crime came an increase in unemployment among young Blacks. Their efforts focused on fixing that by taking down racist policies that made employment hard for these individuals.

As a Black child, the author remembers noticing the other kids in his class at school. The look of one Black girl made him consider how similar he and she were. But when he thought about the white kids, all he could see were deep differences. The term for this is biological racism, and you’ve probably been guilty of it yourself at some point. You’re a biological racist if you believe that biological differences between races are meaningful and certain traits are superior or inferior. To be biologically antiracist, you must realize that all humans are biologically the same and that genetics has nothing to do with racial differences. The author didn’t think that any certain race was better than others. But he did subscribe to the misguided mentality that some differences are because of race. He considered, for example, Black people to be better at physical activity. Antiracists, on the other hand, know that there aren’t any genetic differences between races. We are all, genetically, 99.9% the same. Another way to look at it is that you can’t inherit race from your parents. You can inherit…