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 i...
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