What kind of work, other than spiritual work, begins by declaring that it can never end?

"You just can't wake up one day, in this, and say, ‘I'm out. I am now an antiracist.’ No one ever becomes an antiracist. It's only something we can start to be.” " https://www.gq.com/story/ibram-x-kendi-antiracism-scholar-profile

But outside of the realm of your soul, of striving in a religious sense against some metaphysically fallen state, back here on earth in the realm of the real material world where problems require––and can have!––solutions, in what other line of work would you accept this logic?

Human beings can figure out aerodynamics, nuclear fusion, how to fly to the moon, to Mars, how to fully map the genome, but you are really saying that with all of our collective intelligence, we can't, even if we try, *ever* stop being racist? And this is celebrated as wisdom?