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How to Be an Antiracist

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Like the famous question about the chicken and the egg, the answer is less important than the cycle it describes. — location: 96 ^ref-44147

Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime. — location: 132 ^ref-1137

This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them. — location: 134 ^ref-22332

The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” — location: 152 ^ref-20768

One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. — location: 153 ^ref-52399

an antiracist world in all its imperfect beauty. It can become real if we focus on power instead of people, if we focus on changing policy instead of groups of people. It’s possible if we overcome our cynicism about the permanence of racism. — location: 183 ^ref-12222