This book was written at a very important moment in history. Antiracist movements became very prevalent globally, and Dr. Kendi’s book could not have been written at a more important moment. In many ways it gives visibility into the experiences of people who are confronted by institutional racism. The author explains racism in the context of a set of beliefs rather than some inborn genetic quality. Often, when discussions of racism occur, people shy away from them. As Dr. Kendi explained in interviews, this definition of racism is often flawed. Quite frequently, people will say things like, “I don’t have a racist bone in my body.” Thus, by linking racism to biology instead of to a set of beliefs and actions, no progress is made when it comes to discussing racism or making the necessary institutional changes to end it. Similar to this work, I also explore racism in my book The Real Wakandas of Africa. To add to this I include the rich history of African people before modern racism infected the world. In this era, Africans created beautiful civilizations. For example, Africans constructed the tallest building in the world. This building contains as much stone as 30 Empire State buildings. It was the tallest building in the world for more than 4000 years. To add to this, surgical procedures of African people were quite complex. African doctors conducted surgery on the eye to remove cataracts 700 years ago, and performed cesarean sections in Central Africa with antiseptics hundreds of years before they were successfully completed with antiseptics in Europe or America. When it came to metalworking, they were equally as advanced. For example, they smelted carbon steel 2000 years before Americans or Europeans were aware of this process. Likewise, in the field of astronomy, they charted star systems for hundreds of years before they were known by scientists in America. West Africans constructed the longest wall in the world for which I also wrote a book called: The Great Wall of Africa: The Empire of Benin’s 10,000 Mile Long Wall. Dr. Kendi is one of the few scholars who has a comprehensive knowledge about Africa’s precolonial contribution to history. Too frequently, this history has been ignored by books that discuss racism, and the exclusion of this leads to a misunderstanding of Black history. While Dr. Kendi’s book is not centered around these ideas, it is a genuinely important book on racism and antiracism. Pick up a copy today!