The Trump administration is trying to put everyone on patrol – serving and protecting racism. Americans are being ordered to report on their neighbors’ antiracist activities.

This takes a page out of an old racist playbook. From the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to intelligence agencies infiltrating antiracist movements in the 1960s and recently, the U.S. government has long turned everyday Americans into informants to conserve racism.

Ibram X. Kendi breaks it down in this exclusive, new video commentary from The Emancipator.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Editor-In-Chief of The Emancipator. He is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University, and the inaugural director of Howard’s Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Kendi is the author of many highly acclaimed best sellers, including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and How to Be an Antiracist. His newest critically acclaimed best seller is Chain of Ideas:...