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Ingram X. Kendi

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Racism
Anti Racism

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THEMessage

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It's important to learn about racism because you could be being racist to alot of people, but you don't even know that it is bad to do it.

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Prince Henry

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Racist
Anti Racist
Segregationist
Assimilation

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1.. Jason Reynolds wants to ensure his readers that although he will be giving out historic information, this will not just be a book all about dates and will not be set up like a history book.
2. Segregationist (history) Someone walks into a bar and can only sit on one side of the bar because the manager informs them that they can only sit on one side to keep the races separate.

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Who are main people? George Best- travel writer who came up with curse theory Aristotle- creator of climate theory (Greek philosopher) William Penkins- wrote Ordering a familie to make slavery seem not bad. John Cotton - Puritan who used climate theory and collaboration with Richard Mather to create churches, systems and Harvard. John Pory- land owner/curse theory defender AND cousins of George George Yeardley- first slaveowner/first American legislator

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Who are main people? George Best- travel writer who came up with curse theory Aristotle- creator of climate theory (Greek philosopher) William Penkins- wrote Ordering a familie to make slavery seem not bad. John Cotton - Puritan who used climate theory and collaboration with Richard Mather to create churches, systems and Harvard. John Pory- land owner/curse theory defender AND cousins of George George Yeardley- first slaveowner/first American legislator

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Religion can be used to enslave and oppress instead of free and save people. The persistence of theories that contradict reality.

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America was unequal during the time period of this poem. But Langston Hughes wanted to let his reader know that one day he would be at the table with the others and that things would become equal They send me to the kitchen to eat

But tomorrow I’ll be at the table

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Vanini- alternative creation story/ African were a different species Locke- whites had pure brains, superior minds. Baxter- tried to assert Africans wanted to be enslaved in order to be baptised. Mennonites- antiracists who equated oppression due to skin color as oppression due to religion Metacomet-Native American war leader who led the resistance against Puritans, but was killed and dismembered by the Puritans, thus ending the resistance. Nathaniel Bacon- saw races as equal : wanted to free slaves and band together with poor whites to fight the common enemy was rich whites. Instigated conflict between Natives and Berkeley. William Berkeley- Governor of Virginia/fur trader/creator of white privilege

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petition-a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause. denouncing-publicly declare to be wrong or evil polygenesis-the hypothetical origination of a race or species from a number of independent origins. A different Adam

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Power of literature and media to justify the actions of those in power and turn those abused against each other.

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Only White rebels were pardoned; legislators presribed thirty lashes for any slave who lifted a hand " against any whites."

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John Cotton
Richard Mather

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Sermonize-Compose or deliver a sermon or deliver an opinionated and dogmatic talk to someone.

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All property owned by a slave is sold, which of course contributes to black poverty.

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Africans are savages because there is a natural human hierarchy and they are at the bottom.

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Merriam
Webster

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Assimilationist - A person who advocates or participates in racial or cultural integration.

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As you grow up things start to change bit by bit .

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Africans are savages because dark equals dumb and evil, and light equals smart and… White.

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Africans

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Africans are savages because dark equals dumb and evil, and light equals smart and… White.

Africans are savages because slavery made them so.

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Hierarchy - A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

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Africans are savages because there is a natural human hierarchy and they are at the bottom.Africans are savages because slavery made them so.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Britain thought America was dumb because Britain ended slavery but America couldn't they just continued and would not stop.

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Slaveholder - A person who is a owner of slaves

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In August 1791, close to half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up agaisnt French rule.On one hand, Jefferson was telling his slaves to work harder, and on the other hand he was telling abolitionists that there was nothing he wanted more than an end to slavery.

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Slaves
Black and White people

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It is important that you keep this in mind, because it can be the cornerstone of assimilationist thought.

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Admirably - In a way that arouses or deserves respect and approval.

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If Black people behaved "admirably" they could prove all the stereotypes about them were wrong. This strategy was called uplift suasion.

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Thomas Jefferson
Gabriel
Nacy Professer