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Ibram X. Kendi Suggests Tim Scott Doesn’t ‘Understand Racism’: He Wants to Focus on Individuals

‘When we understand racism, we should understand it as this collection of policies and practices that are leading to racial inequities and are substantiated by ideas of racial hierarchy’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

KENDI: “When we assess racism as a structural phenomenon, we're actually looking at groups of people, we're looking at communities, we're not looking at individuals. And -- and I think Senator Scott wanted to focus on individuals, because there certainly have been individuals who, over the generations have been rising into positions that previous generations, they wouldn't not have been able to, but at the same time, you have black people who are being -- their votes are being suppressed. Both are happening at the same time. You can have individuals rising into positions, and communities still being excluded.”

 

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