“Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“As Audre Lorde said in 1980, “We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“If we don’t do the basic work of defining the kind of people we want to be in language that is stable and consistent, we can’t work toward stable, consistent goals.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
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