Conservatives have settled on two prominent people of colour to accuse of indoctrinating American children: Nikole Hannah-Jones, a journalist who oversaw the 1619 Project, and Ibram X Kendi, author of the influential book How to Be an Antiracist. I think it’s important to teach children about their world. I think it’s important to teach children that the problem is bad policy, not inferior peoples. There’s certain things that a white American can say to another white American that would cause that white American to really reflect that I can’t say. Just like there are certain things I could say to a Black American that can cause that Black American to rethink something that a white American can’t.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2021 07:30 UTC