Spicy Crackers: 10 Best Antiracist Ideas inspired by the American Author Ibram X Kendi

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Once you identify racism, just to describe it, then dismantle it! - Author Ibram X Kendi

Being an anti-racist, I have collected some of the ideas from the book "how to be an Anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi" , when people are moving behind the tag "Black lives matter ", it is always better to analyse whether we are abiding through some of the best anti-racist ideas.

Personal definition of anti-racism is " everyone has the right to enjoy the privileges of the society wherever they are in, irrespective of their caste, color, religion or race.

" when ever someone says there is something wrong with white people as a group , someone is articulating a racist idea".

Also I found a quote by

añgela Davis - it says that "in a racist society, it is not enough to be a racist, but we must be an antiracist".

The tag " Black lives matter " has already come into being on 13th July 2013 as nonviolent civil disobedience, which is trending now currently.

I have noticed that this tag is trending now when one of the Black American George Floyd has died brutally by a police officer. The founders of this concept includes both Alicia Garza and Opal Tomei.

Antiracist ideas

As I have illustrated above, a white and a black kid has born into this world. They don't know anything about racism or antiracist ideas or colorism exists in this world.

" The hidden brain leads children to form unconscious racial bias"

Canadian psychologist Frances Aboud said that racial bias begins at a surprisingly young age. Based on their associative patterns , the hidden brain concluded that white people as good and black people as different.

Let me say, the black kid does not even know the struggles they are facing being black, nor the white kid does not know the white privileges they have been enjoying in their life. Nurturing and growing themselves up in a black family, the black parent could have been mirrored or projected all their worries and fears they are facing in their day today life on their black kid. The black kid has been growing up in an environment, when they are seeing the struggles their parents have been facing on this particular aspect.

Once the black kid reaches the school, other white kids will insult or laugh at them, because of the fact that the kid is a 'black' one

Who else knows their white teacher herself indirectly insulted them?

Once they start hurting themselves from the beginning of their childhood, it could have been impact their future life. It would have resulted in inculcating bad ideas in their mind, in turn, revenging against others for those of who hurted them.

" Fear of black planet destroys good fiction, and it demonstrates how racism goes in the way of human empathy"

Likewise, the white kid is growing up in a situation when they are enjoying all those white privileges they have! As per the research studies, psychologists ask white children to assign adjectives, 'mean', 'dirty' 'good' or 'kind' to either a picture of a black or white person. 70% of the children concluded a positive descriptor with white faces.

In reality, parents of white kids are not racists , but it is all about the trick of the brain showing " unconscious racial bias ". Based on the associative patterns of the brain, the hidden brain concluded that white people as good and black one's - different.

If the parents of white are behaving badly to their black friend or colleague, their kids will show those "repetitive patterns" of behaviour repeatedly. The white parents need to train their own kids on how does a society works and how does it make an impact on their own life.

White parents who are afraid of their children developing prejudices should not avoid discussing about race , instead they should explicitly encourage racial tolerance through story telling and discussion.

As far as I understood, the root cause is lying on the lack of a proper guided system in place to train and educate the importance of equality among people irrespective of their caste religion or color. Even it might not be the training system, it is all about when you have a good or it might be a great mindset to take care of your own affairs or life, let others to live their best life.

Proper training programs must begin from their own schools or colleges, from where they got best training systems from!

Even the society has given a tag to black women as "buttock woman"!

Black women even bears the brunt of institutionalized racism in medicine. That is, the medical system exists currently, doesn't provide a targeted treatment to them, especially in case of serious illness.

" Structural racism " is existing when white people are getting more privilege than a black one , who has same quality, benefiting to white people. White people are benefiting from Systemic racism, when they got more perks or more privileges from their work place, than a black women who is working hard as twice as their white male colleague.

"The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it_ and then dismantle it"

Can you please go through the "Antiracist ideas " I have learned from the book Ibram X Kendi's

"Howtobeanantiracist"

Author said that the opposite of "racist" is antiracist One must allow racial inequalities as a Racist or confronts those inequalities as an "Antiracist". There is no such word as "Not racist"

1) "Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produce and normalizes inequities". An anti-racist urge the need to fight to eliminate racial inequality as well as policies and ideas that cause these inequalities.

Open your eyes to all the skin colors

It has been noted when there has been a racist attack happened against the English players during the football Euro Cup finals, when the England players failed against the penalty shootout of Italy. There has been a widespread protest found against the players of England in the finals - Markus Rashfud, Jaiden sanco and Bukayo Saka.

British Prime Minister said " We need to appreciate the teammates instead of dominating them in a wrong way, those of who are doing that shaming themselves"

But Antiracists believe that racial groups are always equal and they have neither good nor bad qualities, regardless of any ostensible differences. They promote equity among racial groups.

3) Segregationists as an advocate for policies that segregate people of color. We cannot change them, because they are so inferior by nature. They believe that they will not be able to change themselves, because they have inherited their character from their ancestors or it is quite natural for them to inherit such behaviour from the older generation.

Assimilationist are inferior by nature, that means it is possible to change them by reinforcing them with positive behaviors. Also they believe that they will be able to change themselves, and so they are welcoming a major change in their life.

Taking out the lives of innocent ones, compounding the destruction of neighborhoods that are often already short on services and investment and detracting from the larger cause. We do not need to make an awareness for what others did wrong, it is better to move on with the race for better moral policing practices - instead of looking at meaningless corporates to bring better justice to the victimised person.

Anti-racists are neither an assimilationist nor segregationists.

4) Biological Antiracists believe that racism is an illusion, and it has no genetic basis. They believe that there are no meaningful biological differences between the races. Though some physical differences are apparent, there are no biological differences exists! But, racists do believe in biological racism.

For example, biological antiracist doesn't believe that black women have large buttocks, as racists do.

5) Antiracists will take action to challenge racial inequality.

6) Antiracists do not believe in colorism, internalized racism, and hostility to white people based on the fact that they are simply being white.

7) Anti-racists understand that white genes do not exist and the culture of white people is not inherently more oppressive.

8) Anti-racists does not believe that discrimination of colors or colorism exists, that is the current privileges enjoyed by light or dark-skinned people.

9) Anti-racists do not believe that better work privileges are only for those who are coming from a white family , both the colors need to be equally educated. They believe that black people need to respect their own families and each other.

10 ) They do not believe that light skin and features are only attributed to white people.

Whenever someone says there is something wrong with white people as a group someone is articulating a racist idea. It is better to inculcate some antiracist thoughts and ideas to eliminate all those racist behaviors so as to make the world a better place to live in!

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