A review by fkshg8465
How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book taught me so much more than I was ready to learn. I hope I can help to raise antiracists. It's hard work. The deck is stacked against us (especially in Texas where I live), and especially with my own family that has been indoctrinated in racist thinking since our own immigration and admittedly, our own assimilation. It was what we needed to survive. But now that we have surpassed survival and are successful, I feel like it's my personal duty to do better for the next generation by being an antiracist myself and helping my children grow up as such too. I appreciated this book because it wasn't only about the Black experience, though it obviously talked a lot about it, given it was based on the author's life experience. But he was conscientious about including all minority groups and other intersections. The intersection of being Black and disabled will sit with me a long time. So will the adultification of young Black children.
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