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“Du Bois had wearily come to realize that the segregationist “belief that black folk are sub-human” was not based on any lack of knowledge: “It is simply passionate, deep-seated heritage, and as such can be moved by neither argument nor fact.” In”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“Whether benevolent or not, any idea that suggests that Black people as a group are inferior, that something is wrong with Black people, is a racist idea. Slavery was killing, torturing, raping, and exploiting people, tearing apart families, snatching precious time, and locking captives in socioeconomic desolation. The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were historically and culturally different, not inferior.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America