Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

25 Arguments That Won't Go Away

By: Keith Boykin

Narrated by: Keith Boykin

Fight back against misinformation and ignorance as New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present.

The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They’re all designed to distract society from racial justice, but now we have the tools to debunk them.

With a mixture of personal experience, reportage, and extensive research, Keith Boykin takes a wrecking ball to twenty-five of the most widespread deceptions about race, such as:

• The Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery
• Affirmative action is reverse discrimination
• Critical Race Theory is indoctrinating children to hate one another

and shows us how to refute lies, myths, and misinformation with history, knowledge, and truth.

The ways Black was treated

what I like the example of his family & how Americans out of touch of race

A Useful Assortment of Essays

These essays rebut racist rhetoric that everyone has heard, adding to the tireless defenses against white supremacy that anti-racists continue to put forward in the hopes of a better world. The voicework is also top-quality, free of spoken word errors or audio quality issues.

It is not the 400 years ago

Own the past, heal the present, and maybe one day, whites in America will stop fearing blackness and release the “invisible” shackles we still have around our necks, hands, and feet.

Excellent informative work. Well done.

Informed and well researched argument posed by the question, " Why does everything have to be about Race?" Keith Boykin makes it hard for any American to pushback against the points he puts forward in this book. It should be read or listened to twice by the uninformed.

Brilliantly written

I finished it within a few days. Engaging and thought provoking. A must read for all races.