It&#8217;s not every day that a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the Democratic Republic of Congo attracts international media attention. Normally, Congo flies under the radar, even though it&#8217;s actually one of the biggest countries in the world — it&#8217;s bigger than Mexico, believe it or not. But a couple of years ago, this incredible footage from the capital of Congo was picked up by the Western media. It&#8217;s from the grand opening of a footbridge that was apparently a big deal for the locals. Here&#8217;s how it went:
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It&#8217;s a little like the collapse of that bridge in Baltimore, except in this case, a barge didn&#8217;t need to hit anything. All they had to do was cut the ribbon and stand on the bridge, and the whole thing came crashing down on them. Fortunately, no one was hurt in that incident. It got a few laughs on social media and everyone moved on.
In retrospect, however, the collapse of that footbridge in Congo&#8217;s capital was more than just a meme on the internet. It was a practical manifestation of something that Western academics now want to import into this country. There is a concerted effort underway in universities all over the world to &#8220;decolonize&#8221; mathematics, engineering, and science in general. It&#8217;s been generations since Congo was under Belgian rule, so presumably that footbridge is a great example of decolonized engineering. And now the West wants to emulate it.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1349-dumbing-down-education-in-the-name-of-decolonization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
I first noticed this trend when I came across a recent <a href="https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/maths-has-no-borders-professor-rowena-ball-brings-indigenous-mathematics-anu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from Australian National University, which according to Wikipedia, is supposedly an impressive institution. The gist is that a professor in Australia named Rowena Ball is trying to get the concept of &#8220;Indigenous Mathematics&#8221; off the ground because Aboriginal people struggle with European mathematics, otherwise known as real mathematics. The article includes this remarkable line:
<blockquote>Numbers and arithmetic and accounting often are of secondary importance in Indigenous mathematics.</blockquote>
That seems to make as much sense as saying that words are of secondary importance in linguistics. Or that maps or of secondary importance in the science of cartography. How can you have mathematics without numbers and arithmetic, exactly? Read on, and Professor Ball will tell you: 
<blockquote>Mathematics is primarily the science of patterns &#8230; and recognising and classifying those patterns. &#8230; One interesting example that we are currently investigating is the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time. If you light an incense stick you will see the twin counter-rotating vortices that emanate − these are a chiral pair, meaning they are non-superimposable mirror images of each other.</blockquote>
The article goes on to explain:
<blockquote>A memoir by Alice Duncan Kemp, who grew up on a cattle station … in the early 1900s, vividly describes the signalling procedure, in which husband-and-wife expert team Bogie and Mary-Anne selected and pulsed the smoke waves with a left to right curl, to signal &#8216;white men&#8217;, instead of the more usual right to left spiral. &#8230; To create and understand these signals, you have to be a skilled practical mathematician, Professor Ball says.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s not hard to see what&#8217;s been conflated here. Yes, it&#8217;s possible to argue that the act of lighting the incense stick and producing &#8220;counter-rotating vortices&#8221; does, in a way, implicate mathematics and particularly geometry. As does literally everything that happens in the physical world. It&#8217;s like saying LeBron James is a skilled mathematician because his three-pointers make nice parabolas. He&#8217;s not thinking in his head about the parabolic equation when he&#8217;s playing. He probably doesn&#8217;t even know what a parabolic equation is. 
In the case that Professor Ball is talking about, there&#8217;s nothing really &#8220;mathematical&#8221; in any traditional sense about generating smoke signals, and frankly, depending on the size of the vocabulary of the signaling system, it&#8217;s probably something you could train apes to do — even though they have no understanding of language, much less math. It&#8217;s like saying a child successfully flying a kite is doing math. It&#8217;s nonsense. You might as well say that simply by walking across the room you are engaged in mathematics.
These are very simple phenomena we&#8217;re talking about. Throwing a basketball and lighting an incense stick is not rocket science. Your brain is doing &#8220;complex calculations&#8221; when you shoot a basketball, sure. Or even when you walk across the room. And because our mathematics is so sophisticated and precise, we can describe the physical phenomenon to a great degree of sophistication and precision. But that&#8217;s only because our mathematics can penetrate reality to that degree. 
You don&#8217;t have to wonder how precise African folk math or whatever can get in describing that stuff — to say nothing of the math and mathematical physics required to build stuff like nuclear reactors, rocket engines, computers, et cetera. That stuff absolutely requires not just numbers, but advanced and highly abstract theories.
But highly abstract theories are out of style now — and not just in Australia. Braindead oversimplification is the name of the game. Here for example is a recent TedX talk delivered by a woman who teaches mathematics in Canada. She&#8217;s also a vice principal in the Ottawa school district. Listen to her understanding of what mathematics is all about:
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Well, I guess there&#8217;s some good news here. I must be a genius mathematician myself because I made coffee and picked out my own clothes this morning. This will come as news to all of my grade school math teachers, who graded my math exams in a manner that conveyed a certain lack of faith in my mathematical prowess. But if only they’d known that I already passed the math test just by getting dressed before I came to school. If only I’d been as brain damaged as academic elites are today. Then maybe I would have thought to make that argument myself.
Anyway, a little over a year ago there was an <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-decolonise-mathematics/">in-depth column</a> in The Spectator about this movement to discredit and undermine serious academic disciplines, especially math. It was written by John Armstrong, who teaches at King&#8217;s College London and previously taught at Oxford. He&#8217;s an actual mathematician with actual credentials. And he summed up the problem with this whole push to &#8220;decolonize&#8221; math pretty simply.
<blockquote>The fact is that colonialism is irrelevant to the validity of mathematics. The Mayan civilization was doing sophisticated mathematics in the Americas long before Christopher Colombus arrived on the continent. &#8230; The digits 0123456789 we use today were first written in India and inspired by Chinese mathematics. They were popularised by Persian and Arab mathematicians and then made their way to Europe via the Moors’ conquest of Southern Spain. Admittedly the Moors’ conquest of Spain was a form of colonialism, but apparently not the type of colonialism we are meant to be interested in.</blockquote>
So what do these activists mean when they say they want to &#8220;decolonize&#8221; math, given that the entire idea of de-colonizing math is completely incoherent? The Arabs were colonizers, too. And why are Australians, of all people, so interested in promoting this idea?
One possibility is that by some estimates, as the Twitter account I/o points out, aboriginal Australians happen to have, on average, the second lowest IQ out of any demographic group on the planet. That&#8217;s the sort of thing that&#8217;s supposed to be unsayable, but it&#8217;s impossible to talk about certain groups struggling academically without bringing up the intellectual elephant in the room. There might be a reason why there aren’t many Aboriginals working at NASA. It&#8217;s an important point because it means that decolonization, practically speaking, entails dumbing down these subjects or destroying them altogether.
Mainly we see with the &#8220;decolonization&#8221; agenda the embarrassment that liberal Westerners feel about the fact that their ancestors were far more advanced — in just about every way, and by every available measure — than the native people they conquered. The liberal Westerner is constantly looking for ways to even out the score. And we&#8217;re seeing that more and more in this country as well.
The once-respected Nature magazine, for example, recently <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00240-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> an editorial (with no byline) that reads: &#8220;Why we have nothing to fear from the decolonization of mathematics.&#8221;
What&#8217;s amazing is that, if you read the whole editorial, you won&#8217;t actually find a definition of what &#8220;decolonization&#8221; means in this context. You won&#8217;t find anything close to a definition, actually. The most you&#8217;ll discover is that according to Nature, decolonization:
<blockquote>&#8230;shows that the roots of discovery and invention are shared between many world cultures, which can be particularly empowering for people from historically marginalized groups. Decolonizing science is the antidote to exceptionalism, the idea that any single culture or civilization possessed special abilities in advancing science.</blockquote>
But as we just established, some cultures and civilizations did, indeed, advance science and mathematics more than others. Some of them were colonizers, and some of those colonizers were not white. And regardless, none of this has anything to do with mathematics. Maybe you can argue this belongs in some elective history course somewhere. But it has no place affecting courses on the fundamentals of mathematics, which is exactly what&#8217;s happening in this country.
Pittsburgh Public Schools, for example, recently <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-public-schools-change-math-instruction-more-equitable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a plan to make mathematics instruction more &#8220;equitable.&#8221; What does that mean? Watch:
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It&#8217;s not about getting the right answer anymore in Pittsburgh&#8217;s math classes. It&#8217;s about the &#8220;journey.&#8221; The next time your bridge collapses, remember that. Your death isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s important. What matters is that the incompetent engineer who built the bridge had high self esteem. Yes, you might be lying on the ground, mangled and dying, with a giant metal beam spearing you through your stomach, but as you lay there expiring, just think about the “journey” that those bridge engineers were on. That should give you comfort.
It&#8217;s the same thing the Canadian teacher said in her TEDx talk. The goal is for everyone to feel like a mathematician, regardless of ability. None of this has anything to do with actually teaching math, of course, which is the point. Students can fail math courses — and they&#8217;ve been doing a lot of that in Pittsburgh. But it&#8217;s harder to fail a course that begins with the assumption that every student is gifted in mathematics, no matter what their test scores or actual mathematical aptitude might say.
The other underlying factor that drives all of this superficial decolonization rhetoric and activism is a deep insecurity about actual knowledge on the part of those circulating this garbage. And it&#8217;s very well-founded insecurity, especially when it comes to ignorance regarding history.
Everything is a cartoon with these people: cartoon history, cartoon philosophy, etc. It&#8217;s barely high-school debate talking points stuff — it&#8217;s more elementary school level thinking — which does make it easier to incorporate into lower education, incidentally.
But to be clear, this isn&#8217;t just happening in Pittsburgh. It&#8217;s easy to pick on Pittsburgh, for a lot of reasons. As I&#8217;ve said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxm9BTAJCBU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">before</a>, the city is falling apart. But this effort to &#8220;decolonize&#8221; math has serious financial backers, and schools everywhere are adopting similar approaches.
In 2018, Bill Gates&#8217; foundation <a href="https://lincs.ed.gov/professional-development/resource-collections/profile-8826" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> something called the &#8220;Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,&#8221; intended for use in grades 6 through 8. The &#8220;pathway&#8221; <a href="https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trains teachers</a> who:
<blockquote>In order to embody antiracist math education, teachers must engage in critical praxis that interrogates the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms, and develop a plan toward antiracist math education to address issues of equity for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.</blockquote>
Why would Bill Gates want to promote nonsense like this? It&#8217;s hard to say. No one appears to have asked him. But we do know that, in the years since 2018, math literacy in this country has <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/us-students-math-scores-decline-pisa-assessment-mental-health-concerns-1849812#:~:text=Despite%20stable%20performances%20in%20reading,that%20participated%20in%20the%20assessment." target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummeted</a>. In 2018, something called the &#8220;Program for International Student Assessment&#8221; measured the average 15-year-olds&#8217; math aptitude in this country at a score of 478. By 2022, that score had dropped to 465. Meanwhile, data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that U.S. math and reading scores are at their <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowest level</a> in decades.
You can blame that on COVID and wonky gain-of-function research if you want (which Bill Gates also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rand-paul-bill-gates-ties-gain-function-research-funding-danger-mankind" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funded</a> through the W.H.O., by the way). But there&#8217;s not a serious person alive who thinks that any of this decolonization propaganda is actually helping these scores move in the right direction. It&#8217;s doing the opposite, by design.
This is every bit as serious an attack on this country as the airport and bridge raids that I covered yesterday. This is an attack on our ability to build airports and bridges in the first place. And unless we want our bridges to function like Congo&#8217;s in the near future, it needs to end.

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Dumbing Down Education In The Name Of ‘Decolonization’

Dumbing Down Education In The Name Of 'Decolonization'

Anti-Racism

Colonialism

Congo

Education

Mathematics

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Pittsburgh

Readers Pass

Woke Culture

It’s never a good time to be a baby who’s been exposed to drugs. But the brilliant antiracist minds at Mass General Brigham have somehow found a way to make that situation even more risky. Early this month, the Massachusetts healthcare network announced its latest gambit in the fight against racial disparity in medicine: no longer reporting instances of abuse in cases of fetal drug exposure.
The rationale for this baffling new policy? The DEI-rich language of ‘health equity.’ As per Mass General’s <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing">announcement</a>, “Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people.” The decision was further portrayed as “the latest step in our efforts to address long-standing inequities in substance use disorder care.” But will it?
As the <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated policy</a> reads:
<blockquote>First, the new policy requires written consent for toxicology testing of any pregnant individual or infant outside of emergent situations. At the same time, it limits toxicology testing to circumstances where results will change the medical management of the pregnant person or infant.
The policy also notes that an abuse/neglect report to state child welfare agencies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire after delivery should be filed only if there is reasonable cause to believe that the infant is suffering or at imminent risk of suffering physical or emotional injury and that ‘substance exposure’ alone, including treatment with methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, does not require a report of abuse or neglect in the absence of protective concerns for the infant.</blockquote>
Under Brigham’s no-report policies, black babies exposed to drugs can be passed over for potentially life-saving care if their mothers refuse help. How is erecting new barriers to treatment for these children a step toward any serious concept of justice?
As psychiatrist Sally Satel <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/mass-general-brigham-antiracism-maternity">notes</a>, the new policy would reduce not only the amount of reporting involved in the Boston system, but strip healthcare providers of the ability to meaningfully intervene in cases where a baby’s health appears compromised.
This is hardly the first time Brigham’s chosen to mix racial politicking with its patient care. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as part of its United Against Racism campaign, <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/newsroom/addressing-heart-admission-disparities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently introduced</a> a program where patient admissions to cardiac units would weigh the race of the patient, as a supposed ‘righting of the scale’ against historic health disparities.
Let’s be clear here: these practices, while perhaps palatable to the modern advocates of equity, cannot be conscionable to modern advocates of justice. Brigham has made its stand: prioritizing marginalized patient populations in a bid to right historical wrongs. Yet the obvious problem remains: Such policies attempt to right historical wrongs by risking modern ones.
The system may purport to advance ‘health equity,’ but it runs a real risk of hurting innocent children. We must evaluate these systems based on what they do, not merely on what they purport to do. To do otherwise is to adopt an uncritical perspective on equity that cedes legitimacy to unserious and dangerous solutions.
We are sometimes asked, in the name of charity and good faith, to pretend that arguments over DEI and equity-based policies are low-stakes questions. We’re told that the real diversity argument is between “validating the feelings and lived experience of people of color” or “propping up white supremacy with our complicit silence.” I’ve <a href="https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124960-the-strange-death-of-dei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a> <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/14/willour-dei-oklahoma-universities-nikole-hannah-jones-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-things-my-future-children-need-to-know-about-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">length</a> about how this isn’t the case, but the actions and results of the DEI movement speak far louder than its critics’ most pointed words.
For a further example, let’s take a closer look at Brigham’s cardiology policy. Brigham alerted physicians when a black or “Latinx” patient presented with heart failure to “educate the clinician about the fact that, historically, this population has had inequitable access to specialized cardiology care and offer a recommendation to consider changing admission.” It’s not an override of a clinician’s judgment or even a treatment prescription, meaning that it’s actually a relatively impotent policy in the aggregate. By any modern standard of DEI, it doesn’t even qualify as intersectional. But that’s actually the point — the policies that work aren’t the ones being dreamed up for ‘health equity’ brownie points.
Intersectionality, particularly in medicine, only works at the most basic level: the differentiation of the individual patient. The only morally serious option is for healthcare providers to evaluate patients based on individual history and symptoms — and avoid the kind of DEI-esque language of ‘health equity’ that makes observers and patients alike start raising questions about what forces are actually driving the boat over at Mass General Brigham.
That practical and rhetorical vision isn’t what modern DEI proponents want you to sign up for. Accepting their view of equity, in this case, means systems that risk passing over treatment for innocent children. Is that equity? It’s certainly not equality, it’s certainly not justice, and it’s not what anyone really wants for the future of American healthcare: we can’t validate people’s lived experiences if they die as babies in a maternity ward.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work on race &amp; DEI has been featured at outlets including National Review, USA Today, C-SPAN, and the Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program, and can be found on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour">@IsaacWillour</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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‘Health Equity’: Why Mass General’s DEI-Infused Policy Update Places Infants At Risk

'Health Equity': Why Mass General’s DEI-Infused Policy Update Places Infants At Risk

Boston

Drugs

Equity

Health Care

Hospitals

Massachusetts

Pregnancy

A Minnesota school district is hiring a new assistant superintendent who will be expected to &#8220;examine&#8221; the presence of “Whiteness.”
St. Louis Park Public Schools just outside Minneapolis <a href="https://slpschools.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> the job description for the position on the district&#8217;s job board.
The job, with a salary between $134,141 and $201,212, will focus specifically on injecting &#8220;anti-racism&#8221; into the district&#8217;s culture.
&#8220;[T]he Assistant Superintendent proactively supports the Superintendent to create and communicate anti-racist structures and systems, works to interrupt systems of oppression, and serves as a role model for culturally relevant pedagogy,&#8221; reads the job description.
The posting says the person who fills the role will be &#8220;unwaveringly committed to anti-racist actions&#8221; and will have a &#8220;clear personal commitment to advancing racial equity.&#8221;
It continues, &#8220;They prioritize their own racial equity journey and set clear expectations for themselves and others in their pursuit of racial equity goals.&#8221;
The new assistant superintendent will also &#8220;use data to adapt and sustain their efforts towards racial equity.&#8221;
&#8220;They actively listen for both spoken and unspoken racial concerns, seek multiple racial perspectives, examine the presence and role of &#8216;Whiteness&#8217; in systems and structures, and are open to feedback regarding their own racial blind spots,&#8221; the job posting reads.
Meanwhile, this person also &#8220;[f]osters joy and cultivates a culture of accountability for systemic racial equity transformation.&#8221;
Just last week, the district hired a new superintendent, Dr. Carla Hines, who appears to be focused on racial equity.
&#8220;Her educational leadership, dedication to student academic success, and vision for racial equity transformation is impressive and I&#8217;m confident she&#8217;ll lead our district with integrity and passion, advancing our strategic plan,” <a href="https://www.slpschools.org/default-board-post-page/~board/district/post/dr-hines-selected-for-st-louis-park-public-schools-superintendent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> school board chairman Colin Cox in announcing Hines as superintendent.
The St. Louis Park district <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/minnesota/districts/st-louis-park-public-school-dist-103888" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serves</a> more than 4,500 students at nine schools. Just over half the students are white, while about 20% are black, nearly 13% are Hispanic, and the rest are mixed race, Asian, or another minority.
About 18% of students are economically disadvantaged, and 8% are still learning English.
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Only about 34% of high schoolers in the district are proficient in math, and 58% are proficient in reading. Among middle schoolers, 37% are proficient in math, and 52% are proficient in reading.
In recent years, parents in districts across the country have spoken out against critical race theory (CRT) and other race-related curriculum content they find divisive and objectionable for children.
In 2022, the Florida education board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-suspends-stop-woke-act-in-florida">banned</a> public schools from teaching CRT. Some individual districts, such as Temecula Valley Unified School District in California, have banned elements of CRT.

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Minnesota School District Hiring Superintendent To ‘Examine’ Role Of ‘Whiteness’

Minnesota School District Hiring Superintendent To 'Examine' Role Of 'Whiteness' 

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Minneapolis

Minnesota

Public Schools

Race

Racism

U.S.

The founder of Google’s &#8220;AI Responsibility&#8221; initiative once suggested that she treats “Black, Hispanic, and Latinx” employees differently than white employees and has pushed “anti-racism” as a vital part of artificial intelligence, Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> revealed on Thursday.
Walsh posted a thread on X, showing video clips of Jen Gennai in 2021, where she discussed her team&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals at Google. The Big Tech giant has faced criticism this week over its new AI language model <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/googles-ai-language-model-claims-israelis-are-more-violent-than-palestinians-says-no-definitive-proof-hamas-committed-rape-in-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gemini</a> after social media users accused it of being racist against white people and presenting inaccurate historical depictions in the name of “diversity.”
The controversy erupted when Daily Wire scripted content writer Frank Fleming attempted to get Gemini to generate an image of a white male. In a long X thread, Fleming posted screenshots showing his failed attempts to get Gemini to generate a photo of a white person, even though he asked it for pictures of people who are historically white, such as the pope, medieval knights, and Vikings.
“Google’s Gemini AI project doesn’t want to display images of white men – even historical figures. I think I may have figured out why,” Walsh wrote. “Here’s the founder of Google&#8217;s ‘AI Responsibility’ initiative, Jen Gennai, speaking in a keynote address in 2021. She openly suggests that she treats ‘Black, Hispanic and Latinx’ employees differently than white employees.”
Walsh included a video of Gennai discussing her DEI-centered goals for Google’s AI initiative. Gennai lamented that, according to a “corporate study,” white employees move up the corporate ladder faster while “talented black, Hispanic, or Latinx professionals broke through much later.”
“Effective mentorship and sponsorship are critical in executive-level development of black, Hispanic, and Latinx employees,” Gennai added.
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Walsh also posted a video of Gennai discussing the importance of “anti-racism” in Google’s AI work. “Jen Gennai goes on to say that she wants to avoid ‘othering others.’ Listen to this DEI word salad. It would be comical if the stakes weren’t so high,” Walsh continues.
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4/ Jen Gennai goes on to say that she wants to avoid &quot;othering others.” Listen to this DEI word salad. It would be comical if the stakes weren’t so high: <a href="https://t.co/1B2Ubzi6Zb">pic.twitter.com/1B2Ubzi6Zb</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1760761832007209439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walsh then pointed out how undercover journalist James O’Keefe published footage in 2019 of Gennai allegedly saying that Google was manipulating its algorithms to try to stop Donald Trump from being re-elected in 2020.
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“Women like Jen Gennai are key figures in Google&#8217;s AI division,” Walsh added. “They have important titles. But they speak and act like every other mediocre, anti-white DEI bureaucrat in existence. Google needs to get rid of them &#8212; and until they do, no one should trust them with their data.”
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6/ Women like Jen Gennai are key figures in Google&#39;s AI division. They have important titles. But they speak and act like every other mediocre, anti-white DEI bureaucrat in existence. Google needs to get rid of them &#8212; and until they do, no one should trust them with their data.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1760761835983151269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire host further discussed Google’s AI controversy and Gennai’s remarks in the opening monologue of “The Matt Walsh Show” on Thursday.
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Hear my full thoughts here: <a href="https://t.co/Ri3DiphhUd">https://t.co/Ri3DiphhUd</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1760761837233004883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Anti-racist” activist Ibram X. Kendi on Friday declined Daily Wire host Matt Walsh&#8217;s offer to debate the topic of world slavery following a viral exchange the pair had over its history.
Kendi last week accused Walsh of engaging in &#8220;White savior&#8221; rhetoric after Walsh noted that white people did not invent slavery &#8220;but were the first to abolish it.&#8221; The racial activist&#8217;s vague reasoning for declining the debate offer relied on &#8220;many historians&#8221; supposedly proving Walsh&#8217;s claims wrong, though little other information was given.
&#8220;Kendi declines my invitation to debate the history of slavery because, he says, &#8216;many historians&#8217; have already said that he&#8217;s right,&#8221; Walsh said on X on Monday, quoting a post from Kendi.
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Kendi declines my invitation to debate the history of slavery because, he says, &quot;many historians&quot; have already said that he&#39;s right. <a href="https://t.co/AutVKNw8O9">https://t.co/AutVKNw8O9</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1757049102813020268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The exchange started after Walsh posted a response last Tuesday to a post on X that claimed, “Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.”
“Slavery is world history,” Walsh reacted. “White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn’t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.”
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Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#39;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981. <a href="https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt">https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1754861562987196517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kendi was apparently irked by the post &#8212; which has been viewed more than 6.8 million times &#8212; and replied to Walsh, “The ultimate White savior statement.”
In turn, Walsh offered to debate Kendi on the topic, posting, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say [Ibram X. Kendi]?
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Why don&#39;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ibramxk</a>?
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Days later, Kendi told Walsh he would not debate him because it &#8220;would be a huge waste of my time&#8221; and accused Walsh of &#8220;producing propaganda about the superior greatness of White people for White consumption.&#8221;
&#8220;Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong,&#8221; Kendi wrote. &#8220;It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you. What is factually right and factually wrong doesn’t seem to matter to you. You seem intent on producing propaganda about the superior greatness of White people for White consumption.&#8221;
The Critical Race Theory (CRT) guru then suggested Walsh was wrong because of his supposed implied emphasis, not necessarily the facts Walsh stated.
&#8220;Your propaganda, this time, can be boiled down to three ideas: (1) White enslavers are hardly responsible for slavery in the Americas—but White people *are* responsible for the global abolition of slavery. (2) White enslavers are hardly responsible for enslaving Black people, but they are responsible for saving Black people from slavery. (3) The world and the historian should be praising White people for abolishing slavery and saving Black people,&#8221; Kendi posted. &#8220;The ultimate White savior statement.&#8221;
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Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong. It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you.
What is factually right and factually wrong doesn’t seem to matter to you. You seem intent on producing…
&mdash; Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1755988813384405064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.
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In 2020, Kendi also started an education center at Boston University that focused on “anti-racist research.” Last year, however, Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> around 20 staffers, and the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would launch an inquiry into the center after complaints about its culture.
Since publishing “How to Be an Antiracist,” Kendi has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. He has also faced criticism for his book “Antiracist Baby,” a children’s picture book that introduces children to the concept of anti-racism.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-challenges-crt-proponent-ibram-x-kendi-to-live-debate-over-slavery-after-viral-social-media-exchange" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh Challenges CRT Proponent Ibram X. Kendi To Live Debate Over Slavery After Viral Social Media Exchange</a>

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‘Antiracist Baby’ Author Kendi Refuses To Debate Matt Walsh After Viral Exchange On Slavery

‘Antiracist Baby’ Author Ibram X. Kendi Refuses To Debate Matt Walsh After Viral Exchange On Slavery

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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh challenged “anti-racist” activist Ibram X. Kendi to a debate after the leftist author said Walsh’s take on slavery was “the ultimate White savior statement.”
Kendi was irked by Walsh’s response on Tuesday to a post on X that claimed, &#8220;Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.&#8221;
“Slavery is world history,” Walsh wrote. “White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#8217;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.”
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Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#39;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981. <a href="https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt">https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1754861562987196517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walsh was applauded by numerous people for his take, including X owner Elon Musk, who simply replied, “True.” Walsh’s post, which was viewed more than six million times, triggered a huge response, including from Kendi, who <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1755249100532891764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quote-tweeted</a> Walsh’s statement and described it as “The ultimate White savior statement.”
While Kendi’s post was slammed by numerous social media users — including the popular X accounts of The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry and End Wokeness — Walsh replied to the Critical Race Theory apologist’s comment with an offer.
“Why don&#8217;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. “You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say @ibramxk?”
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Why don&#39;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ibramxk</a>?
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The author of “How To Be an Antiracist” has yet to respond publicly to Walsh’s offer for an on-camera debate. Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.
In 2020, Kendi also started an education center at Boston University that focused on “anti-racist research.” Last year, however, Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> around 20 staffers, and the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would launch an inquiry into the center after complaints about its culture.
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Since publishing “How To Be an Antiracist,” Kendi has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. He has also faced criticism for his book “Antiracist Baby,” a children’s picture book that introduces children to the concept of anti-racism.
Leif Le Mahieu and Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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The dance company behind a Christmas video the White House shared on social media this week promotes a slew of woke books, educational resources, and ways to engage in progressive activism.
First Lady Jill Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1735074586721468855%7Ctwgr%5Ed0cb76526edc7d9127d7bfa1a7e5f97758b76d7c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D668339action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> the video to X on Wednesday, calling it a &#8220;playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.&#8221; The video featured costumed dancers tap dancing their way through White House rooms decorated for Christmas.
The aesthetics of the video were quickly <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1735286934912561174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared</a> to the brightly colored costumes of the nefarious government antagonists in &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; movie series.
The dancers are from Dorrance Dance, a dance company based in New York City, which has an entire tab on its website devoted to &#8220;antiracism.&#8221; The company focuses on tap dance, which it <a href="https://www.dorrancedance.com/education">claims</a> was &#8220;born on the slave plantation.&#8221;
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A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.
Enjoy! 💕 <a href="https://t.co/qXtCm4t37o">pic.twitter.com/qXtCm4t37o</a>
&mdash; Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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1/ A 🧵 on Dorrance Dance, the dance company that produced the Hunger Games vibe video that Jill Biden shared with the world:
Did you think, sweet summer child, that this group was featured by chance? 
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Dorrance has radical, anti-white racist, anti-police politics. <a href="https://t.co/ieQ6CTZeIl">pic.twitter.com/ieQ6CTZeIl</a>
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A section of the Dorrance Dance website called &#8220;educate yourself&#8221; <a href="https://www.dorrancedance.com/anti-racism-education-landing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">links</a> to a Google doc that provides definitions of white privilege, systemic racism, and white fragility. The document also delves into microaggressions, what it means &#8220;if you stay silent about racism,&#8221; how &#8220;White Feminism excludes women of color,&#8221; and how to talk to children and &#8220;racist&#8221; family members about racism.
The document recommends reading &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist&#8221; by Ibram X. Kendi and &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; by Robin DiAngelo, among other similar books.
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The Dorrance Dance site also <a href="https://www.dorrancedance.com/anti-racism-urgent-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">links</a> to another document that encourages people to celebrate Juneteenth, post about local protests on social media, and discuss &#8220;policing in America&#8221; during work staff meetings.
The dance company also <a href="https://www.dorrancedance.com/anti-racism-action-for-justice-change">encourages</a> people to sign petitions to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; and charge the medical examiner for allegedly minimizing George Floyd&#8217;s cause of death, among a slew of other leftist racial justice causes.
Dorrance Dance also encourages readers to join their local Black Lives Matter chapter and get involved in prison abolition work as well as vote and contact their congressional representatives about leftist causes.
Michelle Dorrance, the company&#8217;s founder, who is white, explains why &#8220;antiracism work&#8221; is important to her in a note on the website.
&#8220;It is from this place of white privilege that I invite you to join me in lifelong antiracism work,&#8221; Dorrance <a href="https://www.dorrancedance.com/antiracism-michelles-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. &#8220;Understanding how deeply embedded white supremacy, racism, and colonialism is in our culture is paramount to understanding our role (as white people) in perpetuating it, and embracing our job to dismantle it.&#8221;
The Biden administration has expressed its commitment to promoting &#8220;racial equity&#8221; <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/equity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">since</a> President Biden&#8217;s first day in office.

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The University of Minnesota is instructing students on how to be “anti-racists” through its public health department, according to training material obtained by The Daily Wire through an open records request.
The public university is putting students through &#8220;Anti Racism 101,&#8221; the records show, with the School of Public Health instructing students that &#8220;racism&#8221; is the combination of &#8220;prejudice&#8221; with &#8220;power,&#8221; and &#8220;a system of advantages based on race,&#8221; rather than simply hatred or prejudice against someone because of their race. It also claims that there are four different types of racism, including “internalized,” “interpersonal,” “systemic,” and “institutional.”
The slideshow presentation also included a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvIO2GU8yTU">video</a> on “white fragility” that claims “racism is the status quo” of “all white settler colonialist societies” and features Critical Race Theorist Robin DiAngelo, who coined the term and uses it to describe “a type of everyday white racial control.”
That was all included in a November 9 workshop which began with a land acknowledgment, apologizing that, “The School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities — and, in fact, most of our homes — are situated on the ancestral land of the Dakota people,” it said. “We acknowledge the ongoing debt that is owed to the Dakota people.”
Medical experts say this illustrates how Critical Race Theory is being injected into the realm of public health, which needlessly politicizes medicine by labeling racial groups as &#8220;oppressors&#8221; and &#8220;oppressed.&#8221; Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says that the entire idea of &#8220;health equity&#8221; derived from Critical Race Theory can have dangerous consequences for patients.
“The health equity component of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is one of the tactics derived from Critical Race Theory,” said Dr. Goldfarb, who now operates <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/">Do No Harm</a>, a nonprofit that opposes the politicization of medical care. “‘Health equity’ means that the way to overcome the oppression in the health arena is to guarantee equal outcomes between the oppressor class, primarily white males, and the oppressed class, primarily blacks.”
“The problem with this construct is that it denies agency to black individuals and denies free will to white individuals&#8221; while erroneously arguing that &#8220;disparity of health outcomes is due to the efforts of an oppressor class,&#8221; Dr. Goldfarb explained, adding that it will &#8220;undermine the physician/patient relationship by emphasizing racial characteristics rather than individual characteristics.&#8221;
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But the University of Minnesota&#8217;s “Anti Racism 102” training even takes the conversation beyond race, delving into “Intersectionality and Compounding Oppression,” listing off “ableism,” “heterosexism,” “Islamophobia,” and even “fatphobia.”
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It’s followed by a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqoFsqOJYCg">video</a> in which blind people discuss their understandings of racism, with one person stating “I am racist, because I think every white person is racist” and “I benefit from capitalism, which was built on slavery and racism.”
A slide in the presentation titled “racism and public health” goes on to claim that racism is a “public health emergency,” before going on to discuss “antiracism” more broadly, seemingly encouraging participants to identify “your own role in racism and racist systems” and to create “race conscious/equity focused policies and practices.”
A separate training for the broader university, titled “Teaching and Learning at a Predominantly White Institution” and held on October 27th, warned that “colorblindness” and “objectivity” are assumptions of “whiteness.” It also defined predominantly white institutions as a school where the majority of students are white, as well as an environment where “embedded institutional practices that are based in whiteness.”
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A slide on intersectionality calls the concept “a theory of multiple marginalization drawn from the experiences and expertise of women of color.”
A representative of the University of Minnesota told The Daily Wire that the training sessions are voluntary, and that “views and perspectives expressed in educational settings on campus are not necessarily those of the institution.” But the University of Minnesota has a history of pushing the DEI agenda in its academic curriculum, research opportunities, and training sessions, both in the School of Public Health and throughout the university.
The School of Public Health also has a <a href="https://www.sph.umn.edu/research/hewg/concentration/history-health-equity-minor/">Health Equity</a> minor where graduate students can “specialize in studying health disparities and inequalities,” as well as the “structural factors that cause health inequalities.” Enrollment in the program has consistently spiked since 2020, surging from 11 to 26 students.
While students are being taught about health disparities through the lens of Critical Race Theory and health equity, Goldfarb contends that &#8220;Virtually all the studies of health disparities attribute a component to racism without providing any specific evidence to support those contentions.&#8221;
“The evidence for these assertions however is simply not there,&#8221; Goldfarb stated, pointing out that the origin of health disparities is &#8220;much more complex than simply the results of poor housing or bias on the part of physicians,&#8221; ranging from &#8220;behavioral factors such as smoking, alcohol use, diets leading to obesity, and failure to access available health services&#8221; to &#8220;certain genetic determinants of health outcomes.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the School of Public Health appears to have adopted the &#8220;antiracism&#8221; agenda wholesale, publishing a “<a href="https://www.sph.umn.edu/sph/wp-content/uploads/docs/sph-antiracist-strategic-plan.pdf">Strategic Plan for Antiracism</a>” that seeks to “create an actionable plan grounded in our deep commitment to social justice” with a “specific antiracist focus that centers the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color.”
It goes on to state “BIPOC groups are forced to assimilate and navigate a system that centers whiteness,” also arguing, “consistent, tireless antiracism is and must always be the foundation of our DEI work.”
But the institution has also injected Critical Race Theory throughout the broader university community. The University of Minnesota was even hit with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-restricts-white-students-from-research-program-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint">civil rights complaint</a> earlier this year over a “multicultural” research program that offered applicants a $6,000 stipend and was open to those “who identify as a student of color of Native American” but not white students.
The university’s School of Social Work also hosted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-offers-lecture-teaching-12-step-aa-type-program-to-recover-from-being-white">webinar series</a> on “deconstructing and decentralizing whiteness,” complete with a 12-step program on “Recovery from White Conditioning.”
“We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy,” one of the steps reads, while another states. “We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking.”

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A writer for the sports blog Deadspin was skewered online after doubling down on his accusation that a child wore &#8220;blackface&#8221; to a Kansas City Chiefs game.
The small boy wore an American Indian headdress and painted half his face red and the other half black at Sunday&#8217;s game against the Las Vegas Raiders in Nevada.
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Of course. Also, though it is sometimes offensive, there&#39;s nothing inherently wrong with &quot;blackface.&quot; (Just ask Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr., Sarah Silverman, Dan Aykroyd, John Slattery, et al.!) <a href="https://t.co/ALZr3xiMGm">https://t.co/ALZr3xiMGm</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1729321050821832880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bruh. This kid is like 12. I know you idiots are obsessed with calling everyone racist but perhaps he was just honoring his favorite team?? <a href="https://t.co/ol8GRCkHa6">https://t.co/ol8GRCkHa6</a> <a href="https://t.co/jETWc4Pcm6">pic.twitter.com/jETWc4Pcm6</a>
&mdash; Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) <a href="https://twitter.com/rondeaulivia/status/1729303646708359380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Deadspin senior writer Carron Phillips spotted the child and penned an article on Monday calling on the NFL to &#8220;speak out against&#8221; the young fan.
&#8220;It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time,&#8221; Phillips <a href="https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-1851048905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Phillips also threw a barb at the NFL, saying the league has &#8220;relentlessly participated in prejudice&#8221; and should have already changed the Chiefs&#8217; name.
&#8220;This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate,&#8221; Phillips wrote.
Later in the day on Monday, Phillips doubled down on his accusation.
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&#8220;For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco,&#8221; Phillips wrote in an X post.
Phillips was immediately pummeled in the replies to his post, which garnered thousands of responses. The Community Notes feature on X also added a note saying the writer &#8220;failed to provide full context&#8221; that the boy&#8217;s face paint is a reference to the football team.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1729321050821832880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> that &#8220;though it is sometimes offensive, there&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with &#8216;blackface,'&#8221; citing the many Hollywood performers who have performed in blackface over the years, including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert Downey Jr., and Billy Crystal.&#8221;
&#8220;Deadspin writer here is trying to ruin the life of a child while insisting he’s actually the good guy in this situation,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://twitter.com/jameslynch32/status/1729283036007596279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;This race-hustling loser is tripling-down on attacking a young kid as &#8216;Racist!&#8217; for wearing Kansas City Chiefs face-paint,&#8221; another X user <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1729385180517769351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve spent decades paying some of the dumbest and most sensitive people alive to produce absolute drivel like this,&#8221; posted Wilfred Reilly, a political science professor at Kentucky State University.
The Daily Signal reporter Tony Kinnett wrote, &#8220;as a federally-registered member of the Cherokee Nation, I give any and all of you full permission to wear headdresses and tribal clothing. Paint your face red. Do a rain dance (then repent and seek Jesus). Also bring back the Cleveland Indians.&#8221;

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Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a 25-year-old adult male living in Compton, California, and you flip burgers for a living. Then one day, after a fight with your parents or your siblings, you decide you&#8217;ve had enough of the day-to-day. You get high and no-show at work. You go on a road trip with your friends to Las Vegas for a long weekend. It&#8217;s all very fun and irresponsible behavior, and as it happens, it&#8217;s not exactly unheard of in places like Compton.
Then let&#8217;s say your boss at the burger shop notices you didn&#8217;t show up for work. And he reports you missing. Following company protocol, he calls the police, and tells them that you&#8217;re AWOL. He says he has no idea why this is happening, or what&#8217;s going on. 
How should law enforcement respond in that situation? 
Starting next summer, in the biggest state in the country, the answer to that question will depend on one thing: your skin color. If you&#8217;re black, the cops will respond to your boss&#8217; call by buzzing every cell phone in the state, telling millions of people to be on the lookout for you. State authorities will plaster your name and description all over billboards on the interstate. They&#8217;ll even put you on television, in the ticker at the bottom of all the college football games. That&#8217;s if you&#8217;re black, to be clear. If you happen to be white, on the other hand, well, it’s a different story. If you&#8217;re white, the authorities will do precisely none of that. Instead, they&#8217;ll hang up the phone and tell the burger guy he&#8217;s wasting their time.
If that sounds far-fetched, you should know that it&#8217;s not. It is, in fact, what&#8217;s coming very soon in the state of California. It&#8217;s the result of a new law that was just signed by California&#8217;s governor and future presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom. Under this law, if black people age 25 and under go missing for any reason, then law enforcement has the authority to issue something called — and I’m not making this name up — an &#8220;Ebony alert.&#8221; This is kind of like an Amber alert, but in several key respects, it&#8217;s very different. Watch:
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There&#8217;s a lot going on here, starting with the fact that California already has something called &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; for Indians. And now they&#8217;re adding &#8220;Ebony alerts&#8221; to the mix, because naturally, when you think of black people, you think of the word &#8220;ebony,&#8221; just like feathers come to mind when you&#8217;re talking about native Americans. I suppose there are more stereotypical and insulting names they could have come up with. But these are still pretty bad.
For the record, I had to double-check that news clip to make sure it wasn&#8217;t satire. But it&#8217;s real. They really have &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; out west. People in California will be sleeping, or watching a football game, or drinking some zesty craft beer, and then they&#8217;ll get a &#8220;Feather alert&#8221; on their phones. And they&#8217;re expected to drop everything they&#8217;re doing and scramble to find some missing &#8220;indigenous person&#8221; once they see a Feather alert pop up. That&#8217;s a real thing that happens in California, at least since last year, when &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; were implemented.
This, however, didn&#8217;t strike anyone in California as being completely and totally absurd. We can speculate as to why that might be. Maybe a lot of Berkeley grads honestly believe that white supremacist cowboys are still out there, tormenting the indigenous peoples at every turn. Whatever the case, they do indeed have &#8220;Feather alerts&#8221; in California, and they&#8217;re not joking about it. This is serious business.
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Given that simple, if incredible fact, you have to wonder why California authorities haven&#8217;t deployed a whole assortment of other stereotypical alerts for every conceivable ethnicity under the sun. They have an alert that&#8217;s tailor-made for Indians, but why stop there? The possibilities are endless. They could have a &#8220;General Tso&#8217;s alert&#8221; for missing Asians, for example. They could implement a &#8220;Sombrero alert&#8221; for Hispanics, or a &#8220;Leprechaun alert&#8221; for missing Irish Americans. Of course the Left doesn&#8217;t care about two of those three groups, so this probably wouldn&#8217;t happen. But given that they&#8217;re now embracing every stereotype imaginable, in their quest to be &#8220;anti-racist,&#8221; it&#8217;s not hard to picture something like this down the line.
On second thought, by the way, I think “Kung Pao” alert has a better ring to it. And if they don’t implement this for missing Asian people, then at least this would be a good system to put in place for when the Uber Eats driver doesn’t show up with your Chinese food order. 
At the same time, if you paid close attention to that news clip, you probably have more pressing concerns. For example, you might wonder why black people need a separate system of emergency alerts at all. For one thing, Amber alerts don&#8217;t do much, no matter what your skin color might be. As a recent USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2023/02/23/amber-alert-missing-children-usa-today-data-analysis-finds-kids-rarely-helped/11089397002/">analysis</a> found, &#8220;Amber Alerts are extremely rare and, even when they are used, it’s unclear how much they help bring children home safely.&#8221;
On top of that, the data we have suggests that the Amber alert system isn&#8217;t discriminating against anyone. According to that same analysis, &#8220;From 2017 through the end of 2021, Black children made up 37% of missing-child reports and nearly 37% of Amber Alerts &#8230; indicating the alerts are issued proportionately.&#8221;
So what&#8217;s the problem exactly? What conceivable reason could there be to implement yet another iteration of a useless system that clearly isn&#8217;t discriminatory in any way? Here&#8217;s an NAACP flack and California state Senator Steven Bradford to explain:
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First of all, note how they frame this. They say these Ebony alerts are for &#8220;Black youth and young black women.&#8221; But these new Ebony alerts in California, by law, will also sound for 25-year-old black males. Let&#8217;s just be clear about that.
Moving on — what they&#8217;re saying is that a lot of black people who vanish aren&#8217;t being counted as &#8220;missing persons&#8221; and therefore aren&#8217;t eligible for Amber alerts. And they&#8217;re saying that&#8217;s racist. To understand their argument, you need to know that, in order for authorities to issue an Amber Alert, by law, authorities need some evidence that a child was abducted, or disappeared for some reason against their will. If there&#8217;s no evidence of that, then that child is not classified as &#8220;missing.&#8221; They&#8217;re classified, instead, as &#8220;runaways.&#8221;
What the proponents of Ebony alerts are saying is that the police are deliberately misclassifying black people as &#8220;runaways&#8221; just to cook the missing persons data, because of course, the police are racist. In fact, that&#8217;s exactly what California legislators state in the text of their legislation on Ebony alerts. We don&#8217;t have to guess about this. Here&#8217;s what California lawmakers put in the bill:
<blockquote>Being identified as a runaway can also be a legal loophole for law enforcement, because when a child is listed as a runaway, the police are allowed to delay response and investigation time. In cases where the child is mislabeled as a runaway, this delay is crucial time that could be spent locating a child in danger.</blockquote>
So, they&#8217;re just coming out and saying that the police are lying about the large number of black runaways. The cops are taking advantage of a &#8220;loophole&#8221; in the law, so that black youth can be abducted without any investigation. That&#8217;s the claim, which is spelled out in legislation from the California State Assembly. They can&#8217;t think of another conceivable explanation for why a lot of black people might be unaccounted for. Their theory is that all these young black people are being abducted, and all the racist cops have decided to conspire to hide that fact. They know that all these missing black people definitely can&#8217;t have anything to do with the fact that 70% of black children are born to unmarried mothers. They also know it can&#8217;t possibly be related to the fact that more than 64% of black children grow up in single-parent homes. None of that is relevant, in their view.
Instead, California&#8217;s legislature is convinced that the problem is racist cops, who have apparently decided, in unison, not to investigate missing persons cases involving black people. And the California government&#8217;s solution to that invented problem is to implement the same solution that South Africa implemented long ago, which is race-based policing, where people with preferred skin colors are entitled to a police response, while people of disfavored skin colors are ignored. They&#8217;re codifying this into law.
Here&#8217;s the key part of this new Ebony alert legislation in California:
<blockquote>A law enforcement agency may request that an Ebony Alert be activated if that agency determines that an Ebony Alert would be an effective tool in the investigation of missing Black youth, including a young woman or girl.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all that&#8217;s necessary. There&#8217;s no requirement that authorities suspect an abduction, or some kind of kidnapping. That&#8217;s the standard for issuing a statewide alert for non-black people when they go missing, under the Amber alert system. The text of this new legislation in California admits that. Here&#8217;s what it says: 
<blockquote>The Amber Alert system must fulfill strict criteria for the message to be broadcast. If these criteria are not met, an AMBER Alert cannot be issued, and the child is labeled as a runaway.</blockquote>
But the Ebony alert system does not have to obey any such restrictions. It&#8217;s enough, according to this new legislation, for authorities to determine that an Ebony alert would be an &#8220;effective tool&#8221; for finding a young black person who&#8217;s missing. There are no other standards outlined in the law. There&#8217;s just a bunch of suggestions. The bill goes on to state, for example, that if a black youth disappears under &#8220;unexplained&#8221; circumstances, then that could be sufficient to trigger the statewide alert. By contrast, non-black victims essentially have to show they&#8217;ve been kidnapped.
Let&#8217;s take stock of what&#8217;s happening here. The state of California is taking a system that doesn&#8217;t appear to work, which is the Amber alert system, and they &#8216;re duplicating it — only this time, they&#8217;re baking in a policy of explicit racial segregation. It&#8217;s not even clear how this will work, by the way. Let&#8217;s say a 17-year-old black teenager goes missing. Does that teenager get an Amber alert, in addition to an Ebony alert? And for that matter, what happens if an elderly native American disappears? Do they get a Feather alert, along with a Silver alert? Is there some way to combine all these categories, and have an Ebony Silver Feather alert? All it would take is a black guy who identifies as a native American, and we can do it. We can achieve the singularity. The possibilities are truly endless.
Or maybe, in that scenario, the 17-year-old black teenager wouldn&#8217;t get an Amber alert. Maybe he&#8217;d just get an Ebony alert. In that case, California will have established a truly segregated emergency alert system, with a separate alert for whites and blacks. At that point they might as well go all the way, and change &#8220;Amber alert&#8221; to &#8220;Ivory alert.&#8221;
Of course, either scenario is insane and counterproductive. It defies logic, really. Think about it. If you&#8217;re really worried about racist cops and MAGA Republicans who supposedly aren&#8217;t trying to find missing black people, why would your solution be to categorize all future missing persons alerts by race? Now the racist cops and MAGA Republicans can simply ignore the alerts for whatever race they don&#8217;t like. You&#8217;re making it easier for them.
Again, we can mock this all day. But all of these contradictions and inconsistencies aren&#8217;t simply the inevitable result of top-down, state-driven social engineering. They&#8217;re also the inevitable result of the worldview of California politicians, and liberals more generally, who refuse to recognize reality even when it hits them in the face. The truth is that a lot of young black people do run away from their homes. They do it voluntarily. And the reason they do it is that, when they were young, their fathers may have run away from them. That is a tragedy that repeats itself, generation after generation. It&#8217;s one of the reasons every urban center in this country is getting more dangerous every year.
But predictably, instead of doing something about that problem — instead of addressing the crisis of single-parent homes in the state of California — Democrats have once again decided to blame their political opponents. They&#8217;re saying the cops are responsible. They&#8217;re claiming MAGA Republicans are behind it. That&#8217;s the explanation they&#8217;ve settled on.
As a result, a lot of Californians are about to wake up at 3:00 am to random, blaring alerts on their cell phones, along with all the earthquake notifications and the push alerts about newly deposited poop on the sidewalk. Of course, many Californians will decide to opt out of these alerts indefinitely, because they&#8217;re too constant and too annoying. A lot of police resources will be wasted pursuing &#8220;runaways&#8221; who left home voluntarily. And in the end, black people will continue to disappear. 
Unless something extraordinary occurs, this cycle will continue — unburdened, as Kamala Harris might say, by what has been. For California liberals like Gavin Newsom, that&#8217;s good enough. For everyone else — and especially for every non-Ebony person who goes missing in the state of California — this sends a very clear message. It is an explicit betrayal of the race-neutral system of laws that this country has upheld for generations.
This new law in California needs to be struck down, as quickly as possible. It must be condemned by every Republican politician and conservative power center in this country. If that doesn&#8217;t happen — if your race can somehow dictate how you&#8217;re treated by the police — then nothing else matters, really. All of the debates about Ukraine and the debt ceiling and the speaker of the House pale in comparison. When they come for you, whatever the charge may be, you will be judged on the basis of characteristics you cannot control. If you&#8217;re not &#8220;indigenous&#8221; or a &#8220;person of color,&#8221; then no cell phone alert will sound when you disappear. There will be no signs on the highway telling motorists to be on the lookout for someone matching your description. You will be isolated and demonized and condemned. You will be classified as a &#8220;runaway&#8221; and forgotten immediately. That&#8217;s a depressing realization, in some respects. It may seem demoralizing. But in reality, it&#8217;s clarifying. It tells you something important.
It communicates, loud and clear, the intent of the people who hate you more than anything else in the world. It tells you that everything they pretend is an injustice is, in reality, a punishment that they desperately want to inflict on you.
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California Passes An 'Anti-Racist' Law So Insane That It Seems Like A Joke

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You remember Ibram X. Kendi. 
He’s a genius. How do I know he’s a genius? He’s such a genius that he actually won a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2021. The grant was a $625,000 no-strings-attached fellowship honoring his “exceptional creativity, scholarly achievements, gift for communicating his antiracist work and ideas with diverse audiences.”
<a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ibram-x-kendi-macarthur-fellows-genius-grant-winner/#:~:text=The%20%24625%2C000%20no%2Dstrings%2Dattached,promise%20for%20further%20benefiting%20society&amp;text=Boston%20University's%20Ibram%20X." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston University</a> gave him an anti-racist grant. For those who have not followed the prodigious career of Ibram X. Kendi, the founder of the new Center for Antiracist Research, he is the author of a bunch of mediocre books and he speaks nonsense for a living. The nonsense that he speaks is all about how America is deeply and irrevocably racist. 
He has written that America was literally racist in all of its iterations from the very beginning, up to and including all of the constitutional protections of the Bill of Rights. So what exactly does this genius say about racism? He can’t really define the term. He just knows racism exists wherever there is a disparity. In his book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” he says, ”Racism is a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity and are substantiated by racist ideas.”
Let me give you an example of how stupid that is. The vast majority of the NBA is black. That is a massive racial disparity. Only 13% of the American population is black. Does this mean there has been some sort of deep and abiding racism in the NBA to make all of that happen? Conversely, in hockey, virtually all the players are white. Does that mean there is deep and abiding racism that exists at the roots of hockey, and that is why there are not that many black hockey players at the NHL level? Of course not. That’s incredibly silly. If you see 99% of people in prison for violent crime are men, is that because of deeply sexist roots in society? 
The truth is, disparities exist across virtually every industry and every metric in society — and they have for all of time. They’re tied to everything from geography to environment. The idea that if two groups by race do not stack up identically in any particular area is because of systemic and abiding racism is absolute nonsense. But all Kendi has to show is any disparity, which makes his job really easy because I too can point to disparities in every arena of life.
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In 2020, we decided as a society that you no longer had to prove racism was at the root of, for example, crime statistics. Instead, you could just simply claim that it was. And then everyone who said it wasn’t was deemed to be racist. That was a scam. The idea that American society rests in unidentifiable but ever-present racism is a lie. The notion that disparities in crime statistics are caused by racist policing is a lie. This is the magic of Kendi. He says colorblindness is racist. If you think race shouldn’t matter, that’s because you’re racist. According to Kendi, race does matter. And the way we know race matters is because of disparities. And those disparities are evidence of racism. And if you say that’s why race shouldn’t matter, that’s because you’re a racist, don’t you see?
So why am I discussing Ibram X. Kendi today? Because Boston University is now announcing an inquiry into his anti-racist center. It turns out the whole thing is a scam. 
You don’t say. 
A person who can’t define the word racism but is being paid not to define the word racism — you mean that was a scam? You mean just like any other cult? If the cult leader can’t define the terms, it can still be a cult.
This was the Emperor’s New Clothes garbage. Everyone knew this at the time. Anti-racism is a collection of anti-racist policies that target racist disparities backed by racist ideas. But everyone could tell this was gobbledygook nonsense. And now Boston University has announced an “inquiry” into Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research. The predicate for this is that the center laid off some 20% of their entire staff and has been accused of misusing millions of dollars in funds. They have published hardly any research.
It’s hard to have a research-based approach when you do no research. A giant scam.
That is the message here: If you can’t articulate why someone should give you money to do something, all you can do is threaten them that you will call them a racist or a bigot if they do not do that something.
Boston University professor Phillipe Copeland, who is black and used to work for Kendi’s center, stated, &#8220;Boston University needs to explain how one of its premier Centers ended up in this situation and how mass layoffs are ’antiracist.’ This act of employment violence and trauma is not just about individual leaders. It’s about the cultures and systems that allow it to occur.”
“It’s about the culture and systems that allow it to occur.” I love it. Kendi preaches the grift, and then when he actually uses the grift to fire his own people, creating a disparity in outcome, this means he is now violating his own anti-racist precepts.
It’s a snake eating its own tail here.
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