Kendi is wrong, so are you, and so is the entire CRT movement. “Racism” is a construct of Western elites. What we are talking about is “Subjugation” and “ethnic and tribal identity.” Black people were not enslaved because of their color. They were enslaved because of their weakness and the corruption of their own continent. Pre-colonial Africa comprised almost exclusively conquest states, with slavery and genocide the norm rather than the exception. These people were not “racists.” The strong exercised their preogatives over the weak in the natural expression of human nature.

One can be “not racist” in that they believe the strong should not oppress the weak, and do not do so themselves. Whether or nor they seek to impose their own view on others who DO believe the strong make their own rules (a useful definition of “anti racism”) does not change their own identity.

This is a woke fallacy. Most ofthe Union who died in the Civil War were not “anti racists”. They were opposed to the rule of the strong subjugating the weak, and were willing to fight to end that oppression in the US. The slaves could have been white, black or purple or even aliens. It was making humans chattel that they were fighting about.