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Sadiqa is Kendi’s wife, a nationally renowned emergency physician, medical researcher, and committed antiracist. In Chapter 16, Kendi and Sadiqa discuss and learn to move past the “uplift” ideology, or the idea that Black people should regulate their behavior to convince white people to be less racist. In the last chapter, Kendi reveals that Sadiqa survived breast cancer after a difficult year of treatment.
Sadiqa Quotes in How to Be an Antiracist
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Chapter 18: Survival
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Over time, the source of racist ideas became obvious, but I had trouble acknowledging it. The source did not fit my conception of racism, my racial ideology, my racial identity. I became a college professor to educate away racist ideas, seeing ignorance as the source of racist ideas, seeing racist ideas as the source of racist policies, seeing mental change as the principal solution, seeing myself, an educator, as the primary solver.
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Sadiqa Quotes in How to Be an Antiracist
The How to Be an Antiracist quotes below are all either spoken by Sadiqa or refer to Sadiqa. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 18: Survival
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Over time, the source of racist ideas became obvious, but I had trouble acknowledging it. The source did not fit my conception of racism, my racial ideology, my racial identity. I became a college professor to educate away racist ideas, seeing ignorance as the source of racist ideas, seeing racist ideas as the source of racist policies, seeing mental change as the principal solution, seeing myself, an educator, as the primary solver.
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