Episode Notes

Be Better Today (Season 2, Episode 65) – Racial Justice: Ibram X. Kendi

Today’s show notes are a near-verbatim transcript because we believe the subject warrants it.

Welcome to the Be Better Today quickcast, I’m your host, Pete.

Thinking about racial justice can be uncomfortable. The usual narrative around racial justice must change – and change is also uncomfortable.

One voice that is rising with new perspectives around racism is that of Ibram X. Kendi. Mr. Kendi offers up a different perspective with this quote from an article in The Undefeated:

“We have been taught that ignorance and hate lead to racist ideas, lead to racist policies. If the fundamental problem is ignorance and hate, then your solutions are going to be focused on education, and love and persuasion. But of course [Stamped from the Beginning] shows that the actual foundation of racism is not ignorance and hate, but self-interest, particularly economic and political and cultural.”

That is something to think about.

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