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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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I appreciate that Kendi makes it clear that you are either racist or antiracist - there is no inbetween - and that people can swing between the two. I also gained a better understanding of why terms like 'systemic racism' can minimise or lesson the full impact that racist polices have and his well articulated definition of racist and antiracist policies - racist polices cause inequity, antiracist policies cause equity.

I felt really awkward with what seemed to be agreement from Kendi that reverse racism exists. Even as a white person, I feel like that's inaccurate and that Kendi is confusing prejudice with racism.

I may be wrong, but I kind of felt like Kendi was trying not to offend white people a lot of the time with the way he phrased things, which I found odd.

I've read other authors who really made me question and challenge my own ideas about race, racism, white supremacy, and white privilege, but I felt Kendi was too even-handed. 
I'm also not sure if I am the intended audience as I'm white, and Kendi often spoke directly to BIPOC readers in regard to internalized racism.