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‘Anti-Racist’ Author Claims ‘White Colonizer’ Amy Coney Barrett Adopted Children To Shield Herself From Accusations Of Racism

Emily Zanotti
‘Anti-Racist’ Author Claims ‘White Colonizer’ Amy Coney Barrett Adopted Children To Shield Herself From Accusations Of Racism
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“Anti-racist” author and diversity consultant Ibram Kendi attacked Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barett Saturday by suggesting that Barrett had adopted children to shield herself from allegations of racism and that she and other white parents who adopt children of other races are “white colonizers.”

Responding to a purported photo of Barrett and her two adopted children — a photo that has since been taken down — Kendi claimed that Barret and her husband were “some White colonizers [who] ‘adopted’ Black children,” in order to “‘civilize[]’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial … .”

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