" My definition of a racist idea is a simple one: it is any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way. I define anti-Black racist ideas—the subject of this book—as any idea suggesting that Black people, or any group of Black people, are inferior in any way to another racial group. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America