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For someone who claims to be an anti-racist, the author spends an amazing amount of words making everything in the world about race. He can't even talk about getting his college acceptance letter without making a big deal about the race of the people standing around him when it happened. Every chapter begins with definitions of words related to race and racism. But Dr. Kendi not only picks the words, but makes up his own definitions for them so that he can then explain to all of us uneducated racists why they're such bad, bad things. His definition of the word race is blathering nonsense. "Race: A power construct of collected or merged difference that lives socially." A power construct lives socially? I didn't know power constructs lived at all, Dr. Kendi! Kendi sets up a straw man in the form of a blatantly false dichotomy between "assimilationists" (who, according to him, think everyone not white is inferior, but can be taught to "be white" and, thus, fully human) and "segregationists" (who he says also think everyone not white is inferior, but are sure they can never learn to be white, i.e. human). This is, of course, nonsense. 99.999% of Americans do not believe either of these ideas, yet Kendi treats them as if everyone who is white MUST belong to one of these groups. Even the American "melting pot" is racist to Dr. Kendi. To him, it's forcing people to "be white" or not be accepted. I can't imagine the size of the blinders he's wearing to not see the influences of cultures from all over the world have had and are having on American society. Rap music is one of the biggest-selling genres. African-American athletes have multi-million dollar contracts with MLB, MLS, NBA, NFL, etc., etc. It's hard to find even a small town in America that doesn't have restaurants that specialize in Italian, Chinese, Mexican/Tex-Mex food. A town of less than 3000 people not far from me has all 3. Then there's the bald-faced lie about President Trump calling Latinx immigrants animals. I know the media repeated this lie so many times that many people believe it's true (probably even more than think Sarah Palin actually said she could see Russia from her house), but the fact is he was talking very specifically about gang members (MS-13, to be very specific) that abuse our lax immigration/sanctuary laws to gain entrance to the country then engage in crimes ranging from drug dealing to cold-blooded murder. (You can look it up...Amazon doesn't seem to like me trying to include external links to news stories in my reviews.) Dr. Kendi has made a career of writing books about how horrible race relations are in the United States. The common thread through all of his books is, "White is bad...always." It's almost as if he is actively looking for racism and somehow, miraculously always finding it! This book will not show anyone how to be an antiracist. All it will do is try to get people to accept Dr. Kendi's "white people are bad...all the time...in every way" mentality...and make him a lot of money. I'd really like to know why my first review of this book was deleted. If someone reported it because this isn't a "Verified purchase" that's because I read the Kindle preview then got the book from the library. If it's for any other reason, I defy anyone to try and disprove one word of my review based on the content of the book.