It describes “the constant verbal and nonverbal abuse racist White people unleash in Black people wherever we go, day after day” (46). Kendi explains that people have deemed such an occurrence a “ microaggression,” a term coined by Harvard psychiatrist Chester Piece in 1970. Kendi did not notice this until one day when a small, timid Black girl raised her hand to answer a question and was promptly ignored in favor of a White student.
The teacher almost always overlooked the kids of color and called on the White kids instead.
His class was mostly comprised of Black kids, with some Latinx and Asian kids and three White kids. Kendi cannot remember the name of his White teacher, which may have been a coping mechanism, but he writes that people often “see and remember the race and not the individual” which is “racist categorizing” (44).
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