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How to Raise an Antiracist QUOTES

1 " every mother deserves reproductive justice. How a society treats pregnant women is a metaphor for how a society raises its children. Every year, about seven hundred American women die from pregnancy, the highest maternal mortality rate among rich countries in the world. Two-thirds of the annual deaths from pregnancy are considered preventable. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

2 " Culture is a resource, not a trap. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

3 " race exists as a power construct, devised to divide people and justify exploitative practices and policies—and that it doesn’t exist as a meaningful biological reality. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

4 " In the months since my brother's diagnosis, Ma had become very protective of him in a way she'd never become of me. It made sense. Parents of black children can be ultra-protective, knowing they are raising their children within the dangerous smog of racism. Parents of children with disabilities can be very protective, knowing they are raising their children within the dangerous smog of ableism. Now imagine the level of protectiveness for parents of children of color with a disability, knowing they are raising them within the doubly thick smog of racism and ableism. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

5 " There is no such thing as a “not racist. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

6 " Racist ideas have spread across humanity and history precisely because they are simple. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

7 " Every parent and teacher should think their child is gifted and beautiful. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

8 " Adoption agencies replaced orphanages, and prospective parents contacted these new adoption agencies seeking children of what they believed to be superior racial, ethnic, religious, and national “stock. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

9 " Republican state representative Jim Olsen introduced a bill that would prohibit Oklahoma state agencies and public school districts from teaching “that one race is the unique oppressor” during American slavery or “another race is the unique victim in the institution of slavery. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

10 " Is making our children feel good in moments more important than raising them for a lifetime in the real world? — "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist

11 " If policy is our love language, as Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tells us it should be, then the Swedes love their children. Do Americans? "

― Ibram X. Kendi , How to Raise an Antiracist