Ibram Kendi (this is an awesome article.)

[WOT?*]

theundefeated.com/features/ibram-kendi-leading-scholar-of-racism-says-education-and-love-are-not-the-answer/


(and check out the wedding pictures too, if you're into that stuff. Gorgeous wedding.)
One of our local political groups is hoping to get him to come here to talk.

Podcast from the NY Public Library of him speaking on Stamped from the Beginning: hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/d/1/6/d16b7b1bad64d054/Ibram_Kendi_Stamped_from_the_Beginning.mp3?c_id=16526307&destination_id=178919&expiration=1506436059&hwt=91c2c2a8ffd53f7d5e058c06ed1bb650 

[gardengal]

This article hits everything.

[bowies]

I didn't even realize that Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter promote different strains of racism - I just lumped them together.

[mbcdefg]

"But of course [Stamped from the Beginning] shows that the actual foundation of racism is not ignorance and hate, but self-interest, particularly economic and political and cultural.” Self-interest drives racist policies that benefit that self-interest. When the policies are challenged because they produce inequalities, racist ideas spring up to justify those policies. Hate flows freely from there.

Everything is in the name of the Almighty Dollar. Everything.

[mskitkat]

Love this: "In order to be truly antiracists, we must also oppose all the sexism, homophobia, colorism, ethnocentrism, nativism, cultural prejudice, and class bias teeming and teaming with racism to harm many Black lives," Kendi asserts, in a full-throated embrace of intersectionality.

I need to read this book.

[miniroller]

In case it helps anyone feeling lazy, as my library didn't have it listed: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Natio... www.amazon.com/dp/1568585985/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_6MNYzbHWVD1KS
I'd like to donate to the library after reading (after I try to lend to the two-three people I know would majorly benefit from reading). Has anyone ever done this?

[bowies]

Sept 26, 2017 11:04:40 GMT -5 miniroller said:

In case it helps anyone feeling lazy, as my library didn't have it listed: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Natio... www.amazon.com/dp/1568585985/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_6MNYzbHWVD1KS
I'd like to donate to the library after reading (after I try to lend to the two-three people I know would majorly benefit from reading). Has anyone ever done this?

My library has a way to suggest books they purchase - I've had 100% success with anything nonfiction.