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This is a great book for kids, but also for adults. It explains antiracism to small children in terms that make sense to them. It also gives some great information for parents and caregivers about how to raise children to be antiracist.
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram Kendi

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The entire contents of this book will be upsetting to white, Protestant men in America and anyone who believes they should have all the power. Kendi addresses not just racism, but sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, and ethnocentrism. If you think you‘re somehow special because you‘re white, you‘re going to have a problem with this book. Plain and simple.
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GingerAntics He also used the word clitoris, which is certain to set off a lot of people, especially men, if they actually get that far in the book. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics Straight up, people need to read this book. If it angers you, good. You clearly need it. Read it again and again until you move past the anger and start seeing the truth. Racism is hurting you too. It‘s hurting everyone. I would love to know what is racist about this book? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics It is certainly not anti-white people, because he mentions anti-racist white people throughout history left and right while also mentioning racist black and brown people left and right. He even admits his own racist views (against black people) in his past. He calls out everybody. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

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GingerAntics He praises everybody who see all human beings, no matter their skin color, gender, country of origin, who they love, etc equal to everybody else, regardless of their skin color, gender, country of origin, who they love, etc. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics My only complaint is of the narrator. He doesn‘t seem to know how to pronounce a few words. Monticello is the greatest offender. Did no one think to tell him any of the hundred times he said the word that it‘s a ch sound, but an s sound? It made the second section painful at times. This is in no way Kendi‘s fault, obviously, and doesn‘t take away from the vast amount of work and research he put into this book. 3y

GingerAntics #StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek 3y

Graywacke Great book! 3y

GingerAntics @Graywacke it really is 3y

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram Kendi

It‘s amazing how often, as a history MA student, you deal with “white, male, Protestant” power. The history these morons want everyone to learn, is the history of white, male, Protestants, not factual history of any kind. As far as I‘m concerned, they can suck it.
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kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 well said! 3y

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram Kendi

Does this really sound racist to anyone? This seems to be the proof that everyone railing against this book and it‘s YA (and now MG) version haven‘t even read the book they are trying to ban.
#StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds

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This book is awesome. It is clear and concise, but also funny and just a little cheeky. I can see kids really enjoying this book. Kendi and Reynolds make it very clear that the belief that any group is better or worse is racist. This is not racist against anyone. It mentions white people who hold antiracist views throughout history and black people who hold racist and assimilationist views throughout history. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics It also mentions how this is all made worse by sexism and homophobia. It‘s really the trifecta of what conservatives fear. That‘s the only thing they‘re objecting to. I imagine their kids don‘t mind the book at all. It‘s the parents with the problem. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics The claim that the book contains “selective storytelling incidents” is absurd. If that‘s all it takes to ban a history book (or not a history book in this case), then every single history book on the planet, most especially K12 textbooks need to be banned too. There would be nothing for historians to study in graduate school because they ALL do that. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics No, this doesn‘t go into great depth about racism against other people, but that‘s not its scope, and it‘s honest about that. Rather than banning this book, if this is the true objection, encourage the writing of another book for indigenous people, another for Asian people, another for Hispanic people, etc. so experts in those fields can tell those stories. No one book is going to cover everything, nor should it try. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 3y

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GingerAntics I‘d love to know which “public statements of the author” people are upset about. The only ones I‘ve heard boil down to “racism is bad, let‘s work together to stop being racist.” If you have a problem with that, if you have a problem with your child learning that, the problem is not this book, the author, or his public statements. #Stamped #IbramXKendi #JasonReynolds #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek 3y

kspenmoll Great book for students. 3y

GingerAntics @kspenmoll absolutely agree! This is such a great conversation starter. Plus, there is a wonderful, playful cheekiness that Reynolds adds to this. 3y

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds

This book is SO great!!!
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds

Welcome to America in the last two years.
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds