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Introduction - Chapter 3

• NOTE: The following version of the book was used in the creation of this Lesson Plan: Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2019. Kindle Edition.

• How to Be an Antiracist is a nonfiction book that incorporates personal narrative and memoir into academic discourse on the topic of racism and approaches to dispelling racism.

• In his introduction, entitled “My Racist Introduction,” Ibram X. Kendi describes giving a speech as a finalist in the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorical contest when he was a high school senior.

• Kendi expresses shame over the speech that he gave, having not realized at the time how imbued it was with racist sentiment. In it he lambasted Black youth for lack of ambition and put forth a number of statements that ignored the racist policies that shape the...

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