'Racism Is Death, Anti-Racism Is Life' Says Author Ibram Kendi : Life Kit

Ibram X. Kendi says he can't remember the first time he saw the infamous video of George Floyd dying while gasping for breath beneath a white policeman's knee.

That's because Kendi — already a respected authority on systemic racism in America, thanks to his books How to Be An Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning -- was almost immediately pulled into a whirlwind of commentary and public contemplation.