How to Be Racist

"We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to be not racist. Now let's know how to be antiracist."

– Ibram Kendi

How to be racist:

Join a White Supremacist group.

Call the cops on a people of color for doing nothing wrong.

Refer to the coronavirus as the "Chinese virus" or "Kung Flu."

Kneel on a Black man's neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds.

Shoot a Black man with a shotgun because he was running down the road.

Put the resume with the "Black sounding name" in the no pile.

Don't sell the house to the Latinx family in the upscale neighborhood.

Make jokes about people of color with your White friends.

Harass Black people on social media.

Say "all lives matter" anytime you hear, read, or see "Black Lives Matter".

How to pretend to be not racist:

Tell people you're not racist.

How to be antiracist:

Actively and consistently oppose all racist action, behavior, speech, and policy.

Actively and consistently oppose with your money, votes, influence, and social capital any politician, initiative, behavior, company, policy, or law that is racist.

Actively and consistently support with your money, vote, influence, and social capital any politician, initiative, behavior, company, policy, or law that is antiracist.

Don't say you're not racist.