Everyone's a little bit racist.
I used to read voraciously. Over time, chaos and obligation have conspired against me so that when I do have time to sit, I'd rather scroll mindlessly through my phone and not think at all. Every couple of years, though, circumstances align and I find myself in a flurry of reading. That time has come, so I hit the library. One of the books I picked up is How to be an Anti-Racist , by Ibram X. Kendi. It's not my usual, to be honest; I lean more toward fiction, and from various articles I'd perused over the years I already knew we disagreed on several major philosophical points. However, he is one of the leading contemporary voices on race. Jordan Peterson (another author I've binged lately) says that if you want to understand someone, you have to listen to them, and be able to describe their point of view to their satisfaction. It naturally follows that if I want to understand Kendi and his acolytes, I need to go to the source material instead of skimm...