“Antiracist Baby” author Ibram Kendi allegedly “exploited” workers at his antiracism center at Boston University and “blew through” millions in funding, as found following massive layoffs at the center.
NYTimes reporter Pamela Paul recently criticized Kendi, calling his ideals “reductionist and “strident.”
Paul said the organizations that are teaching Kendi’s philosophies are going “against the enlightened principles on which many of those institutions were founded — free inquiry, freedom of speech, a diversity of perspectives.” (Trending: 20th Busload of Illegals Arrives In Democrat City)
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“The recent turmoil at Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, with more than half its staff laid off and half its budget cut amid questions of what it did with the nearly $55 million it raised, led to whoops of schadenfreude from Kendi’s critics and hand wringing from his loyal fans,” Paul wrote.
Pointing out that Republicans and Democrats both saw Kendi as either “what was right or wrong with America’s racial reckoning since the police murder of George Floyd,” she feels that what is “more interesting” is how praised he was in spite of the “simplistic” nature of his ideals.
“More interesting is that many major universities, corporations, nonprofit groups and influential donors thought buying into Kendi’s strident, simplistic formula — that racism is the cause of all racial disparities and that anyone who disagrees is a racist — could eradicate racial strife and absolve them of any role they may have played in it,” she added.
“After all, this reductionist line of thinking runs squarely against the enlightened principles on which many of those institutions were founded — free inquiry, freedom of speech, a diversity of perspectives.”
“Kendi’s ideas gained prominence, often to the exclusion of all other perspectives.” (Trending: Democrats Prioritize Illegals Over U.S. Military Veterans)
Referencing Kendi’s book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” Paul said, “In this book, Kendi made clear that to explore reasons other than racism for racial inequities, whether economic, social or cultural, is to promote anti-black policies. ‘The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination,’ Kendi wrote, in words that would be softened in a future edition after they became the subject of criticism.”
“In other words, two wrongs do make a right. As practiced, that meant curriculums that favor works by Black people over white people is one way to achieve that goal; hiring quotas are another.”
Paul exposed that “antiracism” “requires a commitment” to “active opposition to sexism, homophobia, colorism, ethnocentrism, nativism, cultural prejudice and any class biases that supposedly harm Black lives. To deviate from any of this is to be racist. You’re either with us or you’re against us.”
“Contra Kendi, there are conscientious people who advocate racial neutrality over racial discrimination. It isn’t necessarily naive or wrong to believe that most Americans aren’t racist,” she said, adding, “To believe that white supremacists exist in this country but that white supremacy is not the dominant characteristic of America in 2023 is also an acceptable position.”
Paula wrapped things up by pushing for a “more nuanced and open-minded conversation around racism and a commitment to more diverse visions of how to address it.”
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