“To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism. The conjoined twins are two sides of the same destructive body. The idea that capitalism is merely free markets, competition, free trade, supplying and demanding, and private ownership of the means of production operating for a profit is as whimsical and ahistorical as the White-supremacist idea that calling something racist is the primary form of racism. Popular definitions of capitalism, like popular racist ideas, do not live in historical or material reality. Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist. They were birthed together from the same unnatural causes, and they shall one day die together from unnatural causes. Or racial capitalism will live into another epoch of theft and rapacious inequity, especially if activists naïvely fight the conjoined twins independently, as if they are not the same.” RacismCapitalismActivismWhite SupremacyInequity Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“There is no such thing as nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.” PoliticsRacismSocial JusticeActivismAntiracismAntiracist Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“What if we focused our human and fiscal resources on changing power and policy to actually make society, not just our feelings, better?” GovernmentSocietyPolicyActivismAnti Racism Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Knowledge is only power if knowledge is put to the struggle for power. Changing minds is not a movement. Critiquing racism is not activism. Changing minds is not activism. An activist produces power and policy change, not mental change. If a person has no record of power or policy change, then that person is not an activist.” Activism Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“An activist produces power and policy change, not mental change. If a person has no record of power or policy change, then that person is not an activist.” RacismActivismAntiracismPolicy Change Book:How to Be an Antiracist Source: How to Be an Antiracist