Day 4

How to Be an Antiracist Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    What evidence does Kendi offer that racism and capitalism are linked?

    The historical example Kendi offers is the transatlantic slave trade. When Prince Henry the Navigator created a race and decided to sell that race, he was part of the creation of racism and capitalism. Kendi also uses statistics like how the Black poverty rate is nearly triple the white poverty rate. The Black unemployment rate is at least twice as high as the white unemployment rate. There are racial disparities based on income and wealth as well. Kendi refers to these facts as "the lifework of the conjoined twins."

  2. 2

    What does it mean to "individualize the error" in spaces? Give an example of a time...

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