Ibrahim X. Kendi: 'Racism Isn't An Identity, It's What You're Doing In The Moment'

Note: Audio for Part Two of this interview will be available tomorrow.

The writer Ibram X. Kendi has made a name for himself tackling one of the most important, and one of the most sensitive topics in America today.

His 2017 book Stamped from the Beginning is a history of racist ideas in America, and his new book is called How To Be an Antiracist. It starts with a moment in Kendi's own life: He was a high school senior taking part in an oratorical contest honoring Martin Luther King Jr., delivering a speech that ultimately won him first place.

"And in this speech, in which I thought I was being so progressive and so radical, in fact I was expressing a litany of anti-black ideas particularly, about black youth," he says. "I talked about 'black youth don't value education' and I talked about 'black youth keep climbing the high tree of pregnancy,' that 'black youth are not trained well