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Capture — antiracist discrimination
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Capture — antiracist discrimination
- Claim filed: “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination.”
- Who: Ibram X. Kendi
- URL: https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/ibram-x-kendi-definition-of-antiracist
- Date on page: book 13 August 2019; Penguin excerpt captured 2026-08-16
- Publisher: Penguin / One World
- Captured: 2026-08-16
- Method: saved HTML (
penguin-kendi.html)
Verbatim (Penguin excerpt of How to Be an Antiracist)
The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.
The other meter
Civil Rights Act 1964, Title VI / Title VII — discrimination against any individual because of race.
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007), Chief Justice Roberts:
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
AFT TEACH 2021 — Kendi on the program the week Weingarten said CRT is not taught in K-12.
Pamela Paul, New York Times, 5 October 2023: the “only remedy” line “would be softened in a future edition.”
What this file does not do
It does not file “disparities have no cause.” It files only / present discrimination against the statute and the Court sentence that say the opposite.