Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi discusses racism in America - "The Takeout"

In this week's episode of "The Takeout" podcast, CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett talked with Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi, author of "How to be an Anti-Racist" and "Stamped from the Beginning," about racism and its legacy in America.

Kendi observes a tendency in people who support racist policies to say that they personally are not racist; he argues that racism should not be defined "in a way that exonerates us," but instead "based on the evidence and the material reality."  "[A] racist is someone who is expressing an idea of racial hierarchy or supporting a policy that's leading to racial inequity. An anti-racist is the very opposite: someone who is expressing an idea of racial equality, or supporting a policy that's leading to racial equity," Kendi told Garrett. By that definition, anyone who supports a policy that results in racial inequity is being racist.