He has now come to see that antiracism is the only way to eradicate racism, and counsels the reader to remember that racist and antiracist are not fixed, permanent states, but rather perches which we occupy interchangeably. In the introduction, Kendi explains how, as a young man, he held racist ideas himself, thinking Black people were responsible for a lot of their own problems. Each chapter focuses on a different element of racism and weaves in stories, chronologically, from Kendi’s childhood to the present. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi uses his life story to chart his own path and the reader’s putative path from racism to antiracism, arguing that antiracism is the only way to combat racism-one cannot simply be neutral, “colorblind,” or not racist.
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