How Anti-Racist Are You Poll
How to be an Anti-Racist Poll
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1. Check all of the below that you DISAGREE with:
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Denial is the heartbeat of racism.
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Saying one is "not racist" signifies neutrality: "I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism."
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The opposite of "racist" is not "not racist." It is "anti-racist."
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Racist and anti-racist are not fixed identities. We can be racist one minute and an antiracist the next.
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A racist is one who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inactions or expressing a racist idea.
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Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produce and normalizes racial inequities.
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The fact that 71% of White families live in owner-occupied homes, while only 45% of Hispanics and 41% of Blacks do is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed.0
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There is no such thing as a race-neutral or nonracist policy, as each policy produces or sustains racial inequity or racial equity.
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We all have the power to discriminate. Only a few have the power to make policy.
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The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination
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The most threatening racist movement is not the "Alt-Right" but the regular American's drive for a "race-neutral" country.
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Racial groups are equals in all their apparant differences--there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: White people are more likely than Black and Hispanic people to sell drugs, and the races consume drugs at similar rates; yet, Blacks are more likely to be jailed for drug offenses.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Non-violent Black drug offenders stay in prison for about the same length of time as violent White drug offenders
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High unemployment corresponds with violent crime; racial minorities do not correspond with violent crime.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Black people comprise 13% of the population and at least 26% of those killed by police.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Unarmed black men are twice as likely to be killed by police as unarmed white men.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous racial group; there are only dangerous individuals.0
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Colorism is a serious issue among blacks and whites, creating inequities between light color blacks and dark color blacks.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Lighter skin people are more likely to receive good paying jobs and get accepted to better schools than dark skin people.
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Racist ideas suspend reality and retrofit history, including individual histories
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Increased voter suppression in the states is making it harder for minorities to vote out people who are not promoting anti-racist policies.
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A large percentage of black people hold anti-black racist ideas. That is, ideas that sustain or increase racial inequity.0
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Black people can be racist because black people do have power, even if limited.0
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Only 27% of white cops think the issue of blacks being killed more often than whites by violent cops are signs of a broader problem, compared to the 57% of black cops.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: The black poverty rate is 3x the white poverty rate
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Black unemployment is 2x that of white unemployment
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: The median net worth of white families is 10x more than black families
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To love capitalism is to end up loving racism
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The idea of the dangerous black neighborhood is the most dangerous racist idea.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Black women with college education make the same or less as a White woman with a high school degree.
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The following is an issue of concern that needs to be fixed: Black women have to earn an advanced degree to earn as much as a white woman with only a bachelor's degree.
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The United States is a racist nation because its policymakers and policies have been racist from the beginning.
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Racism has always been terminal and curable. Racism has always been recognizable and mortal.
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[Check this if you don't disagree with any of the above]
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2. Kendi lists 11 things that should be done to make America more anti-racist. Check those that you DISAGREE with:
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Admit racial inequity is a problem of bad policy, not bad people.
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Identify racial inequity in all its intersections and manifestations.
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Investigate and uncover the racist policies causing racial inequity.
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Invent or find anti-racist policy that can eliminate racial inequity.
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Figure out who or what group has the power to institute anti-racist policy
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Disseminate and educate about the uncovered racist policy and anti-racist policy correctives
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Work with sympathetic anti-racist policymakers to institute anti-racist policy
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Deploy anti-racist power to compel or drive from power the unsympathetic racist policymakers in order to institute the anti-racist policy.
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Monitor closely to ensure the anti-racist policy reduces and eliminates racial inequity.
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When policies fail, do not blame the people. Start over and seek out new and more affective anti-racist treatments until they work.
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Monitor closely to prevent new racist policies from being instituted.
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[Check this if you don't disagree with any of the above]
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3. After considering the above, Ibram X. Kendi would likely consider me......
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Anti-racist, because I actively support anti-racist policy and anti-racist ideas.
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Racist, because even if I am not actively supporting racist policies and ideas, I am indirectly sustaining these ideas through my inaction in supporting anti-racist policies and anti-racist ideas.
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I disagree with Kendi that being neutral on race is racist and that being just "not racist" is racist. Thus, not being "anti-racist" does not mean one is racist.
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4. Will the United States ever have approximate equality/equity among different races, ethnicities, gender, etc.?
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Yes, but it will take a lot of effort and determination by federal, state, local governments and the citizens and companies therein.
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No, our country was founded on an inequality/inequity that will be impossible to shake.
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I don't know/don't have a hunch0
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5. Is capitalism and/or Socialism helping or harming the quest for racial inquity
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Capitalism is absolutely anti-racist; Socialism is absolutely racist0
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Capitalism is more anti-racist than Socialism
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Socialism would be more anti-racist than Capitalism
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Socialism is absolutely anti-racist; Capitalism is absolutely racist0
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It is unclear to me if any of these systems have any impact on racial inequity or not.
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