{"id":6431,"date":"2020-06-17T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2020-06-17T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:49:04","slug":"not-racist-vs-antiracism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2020\/06\/17\/not-racist-vs-antiracism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendi on antiracism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/ibram-x-kendi-leading-scholar-on-racism-to-join-bu\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU Today<\/a> that Ibram X. Kendi, a scholar of racism, has been recruited to join the BU faculty and to launch a BU Center for Antiracist Research. Last week, Dr. Kendi was interviewed by TED&#8217;s current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha. In their conversation, which addresses the difference between between being &#8220;not racist&#8221; and antiracist, Dr. Kendi defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. A video of the virtual talk appears below; you can also find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ibram_x_kendi_the_difference_between_being_not_racist_and_antiracist\" target=\"_blank\">here on the TED website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"position: relative;height: 0;padding-bottom: 56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" style=\"position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/ibram_x_kendi_the_difference_between_being_not_racist_and_antiracist\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A website for the Antiracist Center has been already been created; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/antiracist-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">find it here<\/a>. You can sign up for their newsletter on the homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read at BU Today that Ibram X. Kendi, a scholar of racism, has been recruited to join the BU faculty and to launch a BU Center for Antiracist Research. Last week, Dr. Kendi was interviewed by TED&#8217;s current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha. In their conversation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[477,4854,3856,2671,522],"tags":[48854,2550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6433,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}