Doctors Note Issue 18 Sometimes you have to boil the ocean In this issue: My online courses / Anti-racism is a marathon, not a sprint / Boiling the Ocean / Beyond the Double Diamond / The Linkhole / Book Corner What if the cause is the lack of mental health services? freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ And an antiracist act is one that decreases racial inequality, whatever the underlying motivation. So I remember endlessly arguing during the passage of the Affordable Care Act about whether or not the Affordable Care Act would end up increasing budget deficits, which, by the way, it did not. I actually think a lot about this with climate change, and I might be writing a piece on this question. He is Professor of History and International Relations All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public. And so the definitions are outcome and victim-centered, rather than intent and perpetrator-focused, as most definitions of racism and racists has been. And I think that the antiracist framework says, you got to take that really seriously. And one of the things that is striking about it to me is it kind of hearkens back to something old. Or you shouldnt push something because that will imperil other sides of your agenda? But the response of the state was different for drunk drivers, and historically it has been different for people who engage in drunk drivers. But what actually ends up happening is having created terrible conditions in communities that lead to crime, that is then used as justification for endless overpolicing. EZRA KLEIN: So let me then ask about the other set of really complicated policies here, which is the policies where they are trying to achieve an antiracist goal and theres a lot of controversy over whether they do. Define and separate people by race, and people will vote by race, and Donald trump will be re-elected. And one of the things that Ive been thinking about from the perspective of your book is, theres very little evidence on whether or not these trainings do anything. And then they end up never battling. Published Feb. 25, 2021 Updated March 1, 2021. And so what do you think of the big training investment, if its not really matched by other things, particularly if you dont really do the work on whether or not these trainings work? Much work remains to be done. Finally, Black people reinforce anti-Black racism through the powerless defensethe idea that Black people cant be racist because they have no power. It dominates bestseller lists. And what happened is the Congressional Budget Office came out and they took their best guess, and they said they didnt think that would. BUY 3, GET 1 FREE (add 4 to cart) See all eligible items and terms. One of the things that some people would say is, they wouldnt say, lets say, Black people are inferior genetically. What would it be in a year, what would it be in 10 years? translators. I think you do believe, if Im not wrong, that a community that is pushed into poverty, that is denied health care, that is denied mental health care, thats denied good jobs is a community where youre going to see more crime and more acts of desperation. And so I think its, again, going back to this really being an action. One of the things that some people would say is, they wouldnt say, lets say, Black people are inferior genetically. IXK: Thats the goal. And drunk drivers, one study, I think, in the early 90s found that 75% of drunk drivers were white men. Because I think what you just said there is really important. Thank you very much. tn_pos: 'rectangle_4', Theres no data that supports that, but thats what theyre advocating, and thats what theyre making people to believe, that if you reduce funding for the police, crime is going to grow. 
Give this article. It makes sense for so many people to have that in place. The young nation needed slaves to have any economic prospects, and thus slavery and Capitalism became inextricably intertwined, an issue which only deepened during the Civil War. But if its a policy that is, lets say, primarily making it harder for Black, brown, and indigenous people to vote, and its not as hard for white Americans, then we would know that thats a policy that the court should be striking down. Colorism is racism that elevates light-skinned over dark-skinned people of the same race. Ibram X. Kendi, in full Ibram Xolani Kendi, original name Ibram Henry Rogers, (born August 13, 1982, Queens, New York, U.S.), American author, historian, WebKendi was an undergraduate at Florida A&M now, known as FAMU. He opens this chapter with an account of the first time he saw the FAMU Marching 100 perform at halftime at a football game. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. But then also, when people in the summer of 2020, I had to engage quite a few people because I think many people were learning about anti-racism. So when people hear about that person who was drinking and driving or that person who killed somebody because they were drinking and driving, it doesnt cause them to think they dont perceive that as them thereby living in a dangerous neighborhood. The Long History of Presidents Getting a Pass, How Vanuatus Climate Campaign Could Save the World, The Movement That Made Brandon Johnson Mayor of Chicago. But in a lot of these communities now, if you reduce police officers, I think there is reason to think crime will go up and that that will have a disparate impact on Black Americans. So as somebody whos, in a weird way, become at the center of this, Im curious how you read it. This is an extraordinarily consequentialist view of how to think about race and racism and whos a racist and whos an antiracist. And I think that has really scared these politicians who bank on and really prey on white Americans who believe, at least racism is good for them, so theyre going to continue to defend it. And so even the success of the American Revolution, there was a time when that seemed politically impossible. Nischelle Turner continues the episode as the narrator by exploring singer and actor Sheryl Lee Ralph's Emmy win and Hollywood success. But theyre just throwing out stuff that theyve not done any analysis on whatsoever. } And he told the New Yorker he only learned about critical race theory in the first place by digging through the footnotes of How To Be An Antiracist. Our, "Sooo much more helpful thanSparkNotes. And I want to stick on this point for a bit because I think the consequentialist dimension of it was so interesting to me when I first came into contact with it. If you support policies that reduce racial inequality, you are being antiracist. And so for me, if we were to replay that time, and if Obama would have came out and said, the Tea Party is racist and its being driven by racist ideas and that would then have led to a backlash which ultimately prevented the Affordable Care Act from passing, and so we had that option or the option of what he did, I would certainly choose and support him or someone else from not making that claim. Ethnic racism is the belief that one ethnic group is superior to another. Christopher Rufo, whos sort of the architect of this push, said youre a leading figure in the critical theory movement. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. No ones going to read a book called How To Be An Antiracist because no one is going to be willing to look in the mirror. And so they have went about instituting these racist voter suppression policies, which primarily make it harder for Black, brown, and indigenous people to vote but really, it makes it harder for all people to vote and then justified those policies with ideas of voter fraud that those people in Philadelphia and Detroit and Atlanta are fraudulent or corrupt. These ideas ignored the facts, but they steered the political discourse towards stances such as tough on crime and hard on drugs; in reality, these stances were fundamentally anti-Black. Lets say thats a cause of the crime. Look at the soaring white support for desegregated schools and neighborhoods decades after the policies changed in the 1950s and 1960s. He ends this passage by saying, basically and Im paraphrasing whatever truths history might suggest about the motivations of these folks, I knew it wasnt going to help me politically to call anybody racist. So it makes complete sense to people that the Congressional Budget Office would assess the financial impact of a proposed tax bill so that we can then assess, make a decision as a general public or even our congressional leaders can really understand what this proposed tax bill is going to do to the economy. And so I think its, again, going back to this really being an action. So if, for instance, if we know that one aspect of the bill is going to cut childhood poverty in half. How do you think about the question of whether defunding the police is an antiracist policy? And one of the things that Ive been thinking about from the perspective of your book is, theres very little evidence on whether or not these trainings do anything. And so thats what I sort of was emphasizing, that at some point were going to have to battle and strive to do what seemingly is impossible, knowing that failure could make things worse. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Rather, it is a system of categorization that powerful people developed throughout history in order to divide and conquer other groups. IBRAM X. KENDI: Both of those plans obviously had many different elements to them. As it relates to people like Ted Cruz, I think its a little bit different. Or you shouldnt push something because that will imperil other sides of your agenda? Precisely. And so Id like to hear from you, how you tell the difference between the two. TLFS: We know that a lot of the framing around critical race theory has been incredibly successful. 
Through the figure of W.E.B. "Stamped from the Beginning - Summary" eNotes Publishing This kind of thinking is the essence of racism. And so its important for people to empirically show people how and why certain policies are not just harming Black brown and indigenous people, as they are tremendously, but theyre also harming us all. 
If a given policy or action reduced racial inequality, it was an antiracist action. date the date you are citing the material. The Q&A On the other hand, because it boosts the price of stocks and other kinds of assets like that and we already have a big wealth gap, it ends up increasing the wealth gap because its disproportionately adding to white wealth. 
We havent talked as much about how that crisis, the Cold War, was actually helpful to advancing civil rights legislation, especially during the Truman administration and the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. And on the other hand, you actually do need an answer both for police violence and for the conditions that underlie it. One study shows that a white childs perspectives about race correlate more to the number of friends of color that their parent that their mother has, than what their mother actually says about race. I dont remember the last time the One of the criticisms of your position on this is that, well, what do you do when something might serve other social goals but it would increase racial inequality or even it would increase it in some ways and decrease it in others. Free shipping. But there are examples in which we do it in other ways. But then the world changed. And Id like to get you to talk a bit about it. Garrisons changing views about anti-racism are used to indicate the many difficulties the United States was experiencing at this time, not only in terms of how to deal with the Black Americans recently released from slavery, but also in terms of how to relate to poor whites in the south who felt they had been disenfranchised. Today, Kendi is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Ibram X. Kendi, your podcast is Be Antiracist. You have a great new interview with Heather McGhee, if people looking for a place to jump in there. And so if that then raises racial inequality in crime victims, where does that end up under your framework? But typically, those policies were able to be instituted in the context of a crisis. Ed. So if you had this kind of analysis for, say, Bidens American Jobs Plan or maybe we could even use the American Rescue Plan, which already passed, how would you like to see an analysis like that go? And if thats the case, then it makes sense that you need police, well-funded police, who can basically control those animals because theyre the cause of the crime. Kendi uses himself as an example: he was an anti-Black racist, then an anti-white racist, before he finally became an antiracist. The push for civil rights and anti-racist policies continues to this day. And I think sometimes when people say, well, Im just picking my battle, well, this is politically hazardous, thats politically hazardous, so I just got to wait until theres something more politically advantageous. White Americans dont know that white people rioted for food during the Civil War and were fleeing the Confederate army in droves. If it increased it, it was racist. And if thats the case, then it makes sense that you need police, well-funded police, who can basically control those animals because theyre the cause of the crime. IBRAM X. KENDI: Well, what it means to be antiracist is to first recognize that we live in a society of racial inequities, from wealth to health to criminal justice to education, and to recognize that weve been taught that, lets say, Black people are disproportionately impoverished or incarcerated because theres something wrong with Black people behaviorally or culturally. And then we talk, of course, about the right-wing backlash to his ideas and the way the anti-critical race theory movement has used him as their central villain. Hosts: Aubrey Gordon, activist and author of What We Dont Talk About When We Talk About Fat and You Just Need To Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People and her friend, journalist Michael Hobbes This podcast is groundbreaking. And maybe thats me really playing to type on this one. The last date is today's Definitions and examples of 136 literary terms and devices. By amplifying some of the most important voices of our time, our goal is to encourage introspection, conversation, and personal growth. And I think that has really scared these politicians who bank on and really prey on white Americans who believe, at least racism is good for them, so theyre going to continue to defend it. It dominates bestseller lists. And you argue the opposite in the book, that you change the policies first and peoples hearts and minds follow, that its policy-centric. All rights reserved. Garrison, for his part, does not believe Blacks are genuinely inferior to whites but continues to espouse racist ideas, such as that exposure to whites can help improve Black Americans morally. Assimilationists agree that certain groups are superior to others but think that inferior groups can be improved if they become more like the dominant group. 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