Ibram X. Kendi
@ibramxk
National Book Award-winning Historian @HowardU • 11x NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow. 🐍🦁🦬
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The death of Jason Arday hit so close to home that I had no words yesterday. But I woke up with words.
To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob.
And if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you “accusations” to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching.
My latest at The Emancipator.
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