Promoting equality from "summary" of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Promoting equality requires creating and sustaining policies that reduce discrimination against any racial group. To be antiracist is to promote equity, to promote policies that yield racial equity. To be antiracist is to promote policies that reduce racial inequity. To be racist is to be silent when faced with racial inequity. To be racist is to support policies that yield racial inequity. Racial inequity is when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing. Racial equity is when two or more racial groups are standing on a relatively equal footing. Racial equity is the antidote to racial inequity. Racial inequity is when the different outcomes of racial groups are produced and reproduced by policies. Equity is a difficult compromise between the two most famous political terms of the modern era: freedom and equality. The problem with those terms is that they have been defined and defended by racists. Equality is a superficial principle. Equity is a deeper principle that directly addresses the need to redress racial inequities. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. To fix the present, we need to consider the past and the future. To fix the past and the present, we need to consider the future. To fix the future, we need to consider the past and the present. To be antiracist is to think about the future, the good we can create. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power. To be antiracist is to challenge those policies and the policymakers behind those policies. To be antiracist is to challenge the systemic policy. The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it and then dismantle it. An antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences.
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