“To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. And if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you ‘accusations’ to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching,”

Ibram X. Kendi · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21

Ibram X. Kendi wrote an essay describing the media's treatment of Jason Arday and Black antiracist scholars.