I recently read How To Be an Antiracist. A review of the ideas is for another time, but I was struck at how many assertions there were. To keep track, I’ve listed them all here.

• The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.
• The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination.
• The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.
• The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

To be antiracist is to…

1. emancipate oneself from the dueling consciousness [of being both Black and American when to be “American” is to be white]
2. conquer the assimilationist consciousness.
3. recognize the reality of biological equality, that skin color is as meaningless to our underlying humanity as the clothes we wear over that skin.
4. recognize there is no such thing as White blood or Black diseases or natural Latinx athleticism.
5. also recognize the living, breathing reality of this racial mirage, which makes our skin colors more meaningful than our individuality.
6. focus on ending the racism that shapes the mirages, not to ignore the mirages that shape peoples’ lives.
7. view national and transnational ethnic groups as equal in all their differences.
8. challenge the racist policies that plague racialized ethnic groups across the world.
9. view the inequities between all racialized ethnic groups as a problem of policy.
10. reject cultural standards and level cultural difference.
11. see all cultures in all their differences as on the same level, as equals.
12. think nothing is behaviorally wrong or right—inferior or superior—with any of the racial groups.
13. deracialize behavior, to remove the tattooed stereotype from every racialized body.
14. never mistake the global march of White racism for the global march of White people.
15. never mistake the antiracist hate of White racism for the racist hate of White people.
16. never conflate racist people with White people, knowing there are antiracist Whites and racist non-Whites.
17. see ordinary White people as the frequent victimizers of people of color and the frequent victims of racist power.
18. equalize the race-classes.
19. root the economic disparities between the equal race-classes in policies, not people.
20. say the political and economic conditions, not the people, in poor Black neighborhoods are pathological.
21. recognize neither poor Blacks nor elite Blacks as the truest representative of Black people.
22. recognize there is no such thing as the “real world,” only real worlds, multiple worldviews.
23. support the voluntary integration of bodies attracted by cultural difference, a shared humanity. Integration: resources rather than bodies.
24. equate and nurture difference among racial groups.
25. reject not only the hierarchy of races but of race-genders. To be feminist is to reject not only the hierarchy of genders but of race-genders.
26. To truly be antiracist is to be feminist. To truly be feminist is to be antiracist. To be antiracist (and feminist) is to level the different race-genders, is to root the inequities between the equal race-genders in the policies of gender racism.
27. let me be me, be myself, be my imperfect self.