Antiracist decolonization demanded immediate independence rather than gradual readiness

Evidence

These delegates did not make the politically racist request of past Pan-African congresses of gradual decolonization, as if Africans were not ready to rule Africans. The antiracist “Challenge to the Colonial Powers” demanded immediate independence from European colonial rule. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 904

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete contrast: gradual readiness is the assimilationist position (Africans must become ‘ready’), immediate demand is the antiracist position—clean illustration of the scheme applied to decolonization.