The abolition of slavery seemed as impossible in the 1850s as equality seems today. But just as the abolitionists of the 1850s demanded the immediate eradication of slavery, immediate equality must be the demand today.
Kendi is right, it seems daunting or downright impossible to change our institutions in society. But, even so, we still have to try and make the changes ourselves.
I fear that this is how many Americans are thinking right now: Routine surgery—the defeat of Donald Trump at the polls—will heal the American body. No need to look deeper, at police departments, at schools, at housing.
I have had this conversation with people before. America won't stop being racist when Trump is gone, the issue are far more systemic.
A nation is what it does, not what it originally claimed it would be. Often, a nation is precisely what it denies itself to be.
America has claimed to be a nation of freedom, but has been plagued with mistreatment and inequality of those non-white.
In the Trump years, the problem is obvious, and it isn’t Black people’s behavior.
People are realizing that black people aren't at fault for their own positions.
Trump’s presidency has paved the way for a revolution against racism.
As stated before, Trump is the embodiment of America. But Trump is so naked about his racism that people are beginning to realize it's a serious problem. This sentence is Kendi's main point of the article.
To make America great again, he would make it seem as if a Black man had never been president, erasing him from history by repealing and replacing his signature accomplishments, from the Affordable Care Act to DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. He would also build a wall to keep out immigrants, and he would ban Muslims from entering the country.
"Make America Great Again" has always meant make America white again. Trump is destroying everything Obama has done as if his legacy is a stain on American history.
He has held up a mirror to American society, and it has reflected back a grotesque image that many people had until now refused to see: an image not just of the racism still coursing through the country, but also of the reflex to deny that reality.
Trump is the embodiment of America. He has always been racist, except now he doesn't have to hide it because it's tolerated and accepted.
The news came from a colleague — not a doctor but someone who works in the emergency room and has seen firsthand the devastation caused by the pandemic. “There is a cure for Covid-19,” he said. “It must be true because a doctor friend shared a Facebook post about this cure.”
ISSUE- Should Facebook be held responsible for the misinformation on their site.
While we try, each day, to counter these dangerous falsehoods that circulate among our patients and our peers, our ability to counsel and provide care is diminished by a social network that bolsters distrust in science and medicine.
Logos. The sentence in quite long much like how dealing with falsehoods is long and tiresome.
that the disease has killed more than 180,000 Americans precisely because we have no effective way of averting death for the millions who are infected
Logos is used to explain a vaccine hasn't been created yet
‘But I Saw It on Facebook’: Hoaxes Are Making Doctors’ Jobs Harder
Main claim: Facebook is promoting and profiting off false information, leading people to be disillusioned with the modern medical field.
Claim of value
When confronted with the latest, credible scientific evidence — that there is no cure for Covid-19
Fact because the CDC have not given confirmation of a Covid-19 cure (ethos)