Comment by rpmisms

I'm just hearing this term for the first time, but let me give it a shot. Racism is bias based on race. In the rural south near me, the racism that I see looks like this: black person gets a few weird looks, and they need to be extra-polite to gain someone's trust. It's not a belief that every single black person shares the foibles of the worst of their race.

Ibram X Kendi (Real name Henry Rogers), on the other hand, seems to believe that it is impossible for a white person to be good. We are somehow all racist, and all responsible for slavery.

The latter is simply more racist. The former is simply using race as a data point, which isn't kind or fair, but it is understandable. Kendi's approach is moral judgement based on skin color, with the only way out being perpetual genuflection.