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Ibram X. Kendi
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National Book Award-winning Historian @HowardU • 11x NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow. 🐍🦁🦬
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Dec 18, 2025
    📚Book Announcement!📚 The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. Great replacement theory and its metastasizing variants claim that White people—along with Christians, citizens, men, heterosexuals, and
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Nov 22, 2020
    This is the American criminal justice system in a nutshell.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Nov 7, 2020
    I want the love of Black voters right now to transform into the love of Black people.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Sep 23, 2021
    I can safely say I’ve now been cancer free for 3 years. My doc told me last night. It’s a milestone year after stage IV colon cancer. I feel fortunate, lucky and determined to not waste the days I’ve been given. In a time of so much death, I wanted to share a small note of life.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Jul 7, 2022
    I am in London and Boris Johnson is resigning. I am shocked. A leader of a Conservative Party is being held accountable by his own party. As a U.S. citizen, I was entirely cynical that he could be forced to resign. And I think every American knows why.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Jan 20, 2021
    He's gone. And now, it is up to us to drive out what he represents. He is lies and bigotry and injustice and tyranny embodied--and the work is only beginning to drive him out of our body politic. Joy, today. Resolve, tomorrow.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Sep 18, 2020
    No, not RBG. What a colossal loss. What a lioness. She taught us all how to fight, how to fight cancer, how to fight for justice, how to fight for our lives.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Jan 6, 2021
    White privilege is on display like never before in the U.S. Capitol. If these people were Black. . .well, we all know what would be happening right now to them.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Aug 24, 2020
    Seven shots in the back. Seven shots. Seven. In the back. For breaking up a fight. I'm undone. Shot in front of his children. I'm undone. As #JacobBlake fights for his life, his kids are fighting off their trauma. I'm undone.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Jul 4, 2020
    Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly. 1/
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Aug 28, 2020
    This is what Republicans mean by law and order.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Jun 26, 2020
    Any return to normal is a return to the normality of racism.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Apr 19, 2020
    I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law. Riot units would be breaking up rallies. Tear gas would be flying. Jails would be filling up. Trump would be raging.
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    Ibram X. Kendi
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    Sep 6, 2020
    Trump does not want a nation of critical thinkers. He wants a nation of loyal believers.