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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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The Daily Wire

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.

Matt Walsh Challenges CRT Proponent Ibram X. Kendi To Live Debate Over Slavery After Viral Social Media Exchange

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So, Claudine Gay is out.
The president of Harvard University — now the former president — is the shortest-tenured president of Harvard in its history.
Let us all remember just why. Lest we forget, Gay was unable to say that calls for genocide against Jews violated the college’s policies on speech.
This occurred after she issued a weak statement complaining about the “death and destruction unleashed” on October 7 in Israel, without any reference to Hamas. Harvard students testified about their feelings of unease on campus — unease underscored by actual attempted violence against some pro-Israel students, allegedly including members of the Harvard Law Review.
After that insane exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik — after all, Harvard isn’t exactly a hotbed of free speech, being one of the most restrictive campuses in America on a variety of hot-button topics — Gay came under even more fire.
The Washington Free Beacon did Pulitzer-level work in uncovering her academic charlatanism. By mid-December, the Free Beacon had uncovered dozens of allegations of her plagiarism. Then, Monday night, the Free Beacon revealed even more examples of plagiarism — what Harvard euphemistically <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/us/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">termed</a> “duplicative language without proper attribution.”
There’s a word for that: plagiarism.
But still, Harvard tried to keep her on.
They had to. She was the poster child for their core philosophy: diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. To allow that she should never have gotten the position — that her academic record was scanty, and that she had involved herself in no original groundbreaking work (emphasis on the word “original”) — would have been to admit she had been given the job because she was a black female.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1877-harvard-s-untouchable-woke-president-is-gone-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
And so the Leftist powers that be had to maintain she deserved the job. The head of the NAACP <a href="https://twitter.com/DerrickNAACP/status/1734720954952020330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> those who wanted Gay to go were engaging in “nothing more than theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.” Dozens of black Harvard faculty members wrote an open letter <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-faculty-alumni-letter-support-claudine-gay-house-testimony-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proclaiming</a> “any suggestion that her selection as president was the result of a process that elevated an unqualified person based on considerations of race and gender are specious and politically motivated.”
Of course, that was a lie. She wasn’t qualified. But she had the right intersectional qualities to maintain her job. She wasn’t a black male with heterodox leanings like Roland Fryer, the economist who had debunked notions of disproportionate anti-black police shootings. She wasn’t a Jewish male like Larry Summers, who had pointed out that the lack of women in STEM might have something to do with both skills distribution and desire to enter the STEM world by women.
She was a far-Left black woman.
And her immunity was absolute.
Until it wasn’t.
Now the question is whether Americans will be satisfied to leave DEI in place with Gay gone. That narrative will rely on portraying Gay as either a grifter who abused DEI or a martyr.
The Left will never call her a grifter — that might open the door on the other grifters.
Predictably, those race grifters are <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1742266704653136069" target="_blank" rel="noopener">therefore</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742319371882795315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1742350497460408326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her</a> a martyr.
Who would have guessed?

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&#8220;Anti-racist&#8221; author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clearly-a-witch-hunt-lefties-blame-racism-for-ouster-of-allegedly-plagiarizing-harvard-prez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a>, &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; author Nikole Hannah-Jones, and a number of others claimed that the long-awaited exit of Harvard University President Claudine Gay was a coordinated racist attack — and the backlash was immediate.
Kendi claimed that Gay&#8217;s ouster — which came on the heels of her disastrous Capitol Hill testimony and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-blasted-for-article-labeling-plagiarism-as-new-conservative-weapon-in-wake-of-claudine-gay-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple accusations of plagiarism</a> impacting more than half of her published academic works — was the result of a &#8220;racist mob&#8221; eagerly gunning for a black woman in a position of power.
&#8220;Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the structure of racism. What these racist mobs are doing should be obvious to any reporter who cares about truth or justice as opposed to conflicts and clicks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Too often mainstream reporters join the racist mob or give it credibility—as they did in this case—just as they did a century ago.&#8221;
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Too often mainstream reporters join the racist mob or give it credibility—as they did in this case—just as they did a century ago.
&mdash; Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1742265894560997415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He later cheered The Associated Press, calling it &#8220;real journalism&#8221; when the outlet identified plagiarism as a &#8220;conservative weapon&#8221; against academics they did not like.
&#8220;This is journalism. Getting closer to what truly happened and why. &#8216;The plagiarism allegations came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who sought to oust Gay and put her career under intense scrutiny in hopes of finding a fatal flaw,'&#8221; he said.
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This is journalism. Getting closer to what truly happened and why. “The plagiarism allegations came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who sought to oust Gay and put her career under intense scrutiny in hopes of finding a fatal flaw.” <a href="https://t.co/fJrAJYdHpJ">https://t.co/fJrAJYdHpJ</a>
&mdash; Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1742515298513633284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro warned the AP, &#8220;When grifter extraordinaire Ibram X. Kendi praises your &#8216;journalism,&#8217; you should start thinking about another career.&#8221;
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When grifter extraordinaire Ibram X. Kendi praises your &quot;journalism,&quot; you should start thinking about another career <a href="https://t.co/Zh2f4uSckP">https://t.co/Zh2f4uSckP</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1742551211604131953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is bad journalism and inaccurate; allegations were first made on an academic message board. The latest round of plagiarism discoveries precipitating Gay&#8217;s firing came from an anonymous academic. The accusations came from her peers. Rufo and Brunet only publicized them,&#8221; Mark Hemingway pointed out.
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This is bad journalism and inaccurate; allegations were first made on an academic message board. The latest round of plagiarism discoveries precipitating Gay&#39;s firing came from an anonymous academic. The accusations came from her peers. Rufo and Brunet only publicized them. <a href="https://t.co/Sh0Jp3w1XZ">https://t.co/Sh0Jp3w1XZ</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1742577135988994518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You see, only her peers are allowed to notice she was a serial plagiarist, but her peers would never do that for political reasons, as evidenced by this and other reactions. Therefore, Gay should have been awarded total protection,&#8221; Red State&#8217;s Bonchie explained.
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You see, only her peers are allowed to notice she was a serial plagiarist, but her peers would never do that for political reasons, as evidenced by this and other reactions. 
Therefore, Gay should have been awarded total protection. <a href="https://t.co/ipmijF3XhW">https://t.co/ipmijF3XhW</a>
&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1742529417337880828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The 1619 Project&#8221; author Nikole Hannah-Jones took a slightly veiled approach, claiming that Gay&#8217;s exit was nothing less than the desired result of a &#8220;well-executed plan.&#8221;
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Well, they got what they wanted from their well-executed plan. <a href="https://t.co/SsdhSYYnEk">https://t.co/SsdhSYYnEk</a>
&mdash; Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1742248159060074827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I love the part of the plan where they went back in time and got Claudine Gay to plagiarize a bunch of s***,&#8221; @RBpundit posted in response.
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I love the part of the plan where they went back in time and got Claudine Gay to plagiarize a bunch of shit. <a href="https://t.co/BgPXN5Wx74">https://t.co/BgPXN5Wx74</a>
&mdash; RBe (@RBPundit) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBPundit/status/1742267645380935912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Step 1: Encourage Ph.D. student/prof to plagiarize numerous times; Step 2: Get her hired as Harvard President; Step 3: Have her show contempt for Jewish students&#8217; safety in front of Congress; Step 4: Expose all the previously encouraged plagiarism,&#8221; another laid out the steps of the alleged &#8220;plan.&#8221;
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Step 1: Encourage Ph.D. student/prof to plagiarize numerous times Step 2: Get her hired as Harvard President Step 3: Have her show contempt for Jewish students&#39; safety in front of Congress Step 4: Expose all the previously encouraged plagiarism
Well executed <a href="https://twitter.com/real_chrisrufo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@real_chrisrufo</a> <a href="https://t.co/OfQsIoLDuh">https://t.co/OfQsIoLDuh</a>
&mdash; Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) <a href="https://twitter.com/awstar11/status/1742259014531195175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Even self-appointed congressional fire alarm Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) got in on the action, claiming that Gay&#8217;s ouster was an attempt to intimidate other black men and women who aspired to positions of power.
&#8220;This isn’t about plagiarism or antisemitism. This is about racism and intimidation. This makes no one safer. The only winners are fascists who bullied a brilliant &amp; historic Black woman into resignation. 2024 will be a battle for truth, democracy and our shared humanity,&#8221; he said.
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This isn’t about plagiarism or antisemitism. This is about racism and intimidation. This makes no one safer. 
The only winners are fascists who bullied a brilliant &amp; historic Black woman into resignation. 
2024 will be a battle for truth, democracy and our shared humanity.
&mdash; Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. (@JamaalBowmanNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1742334850953101385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Dan McLaughlin <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1742391755264176234" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summed up</a> the situation: &#8220;When Jamaal Bowman sounds the alarm, you know what that means.&#8221;

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The Usual Suspects Claim Gay's Ouster Was Coordinated Racist Attack. It Doesn't Go Well

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Systemic Racism

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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Dance Company Behind ‘Hunger Games’ White House Christmas Video Promotes ‘Antiracist’ Activism, Defunding The Police

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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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Ibram X. Kendi’s Grift Catches Up With Him

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A decade ago, a man in his 30s by the name of Henry Rogers was one of 32,000 faculty members working in the state university system of New York. Henry was an assistant professor, making a modest salary as he taught history classes to undergraduates. He wasn&#8217;t exactly lighting the academic world on fire, but he was doing pretty well, all things considered. Henry had graduated from high school with a GPA below 3.0, and SAT scores hovering around 1,000. With numbers like that, many students decide to pass on college entirely and for good reason. But here was Henry Rogers, *teaching* college students. He wasn&#8217;t simply going to college; he was educating the next generation. So he was something of an unexpected success story.
Nevertheless, despite the many blessings that were bestowed on him by affirmative action, Henry Rogers dreamed bigger. He didn&#8217;t want to be stuck at SUNY forever. He knew that if he wanted to make a lot of money and advance in academia, he needed a rebrand. You can only go so far with a white-sounding name like Henry Rogers in the American university system, especially in a state like New York. So in 2013, Henry Rogers changed his name.
Overnight, he became Ibram Xolani Kendi, or Ibram X. Kendi for short. From that point forward, anyone looking at the C.V. of this assistant professor at a middling state school wouldn&#8217;t immediately think of someone boring and generic and pasty. Instead, they&#8217;d think of black revolutionaries like Malcolm X.
Looking back, Henry Rogers&#8217; name change may go down as the single most effective rebrand in the history of this country. His timing could not have been better. At the moment Henry Rogers transitioned into Ibram X. Kendi, corporate media in the United States was looking for something to cover besides wealth inequality and Occupy Wall Street. They decided, apparently in concert, to craft a narrative that innocent young black people were being hunted by deranged white supremacists. To advance that narrative, the media lied about the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd, and so on. And during this period, they needed talking heads with names like Ibram X. Kendi to tell Americans that their real problem wasn&#8217;t Citibank or JP Morgan — it was white people.
One thing led to another, and before you knew it, Henry Rogers was on the move. He was hired by American University in Washington, D.C., in 2017, which at the time, was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/us/american-university-bananas-nooses-hate-crime-protests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggling</a> with the news that bananas had been spotted hanging from trees on campus. This was presumed to be a racist incident, and Henry Rogers was going to fix things. Specifically, Rogers promised to develop a &#8220;racial reporting guidebook&#8221; and to conduct a symposium on &#8220;racial reporting.&#8221;
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None of that ever materialized, even though Rogers received tens of thousands of dollars in grant money — from places like the Ford Foundation — to make it happen. But Rogers was not completely idle during this period. After two years at American University, Henry produced a now-famous book called &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist,&#8221; which offered a novel theory. Henry argued that the solution to racism is more racism. “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.&#8221;
If your IQ is higher than Henry Rogers&#8217; — and unless you&#8217;re a house cat, it almost certainly is — then that might seem counterintuitive. In fact it might seem like the single dumbest idea ever committed to paper. But in 2019, this theory — this explicit endorsement of racism — lit the academic world on fire. That same year, Henry Rogers was invited to speak at the &#8220;Aspen Ideas Festival,&#8221; where he had the opportunity to expound on his ingenious thesis before an audience of adoring, mostly white sycophants. And yet, despite the friendly audience, things didn&#8217;t go well. Not to oversell it, but this is maybe the single most amusing clip to come out of the entire DEI/anti-racism craze. In case you missed it at the time, you&#8217;re in for a treat. Here is Henry Rogers, AKA Ibram X. Kendi, explaining his definition of racism:
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It&#8217;s an amazing clip for so many reasons. For one thing, even in the moment — with everyone in the room on Henry Rogers&#8217; side — there&#8217;s still nervous laughter when he tries to articulate the definition of the central concept animating his entire life&#8217;s work. Even by the standards of woke academics, this was bad, and they all knew it. &#8220;Racism is when you&#8217;re racist.&#8221; Okay, thanks Henry. Everyone just smiles and nods awkwardly, because that&#8217;s what academia is now. It&#8217;s a grift. There&#8217;s no integrity or dialogue at all. There are no ideas at the &#8220;Aspen Ideas Festival.&#8221; There&#8217;s &#8230; whatever this is.
This moment was not the end of Henry Rogers&#8217; academic career, of course. Criticizing Henry Rogers, or denying him promotions, is white supremacy. So the promotions kept coming. Henry went on to spend a year as a fellow at Harvard after this. Then he received yet another prestigious offer. Just weeks after George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, Rogers was hired to lead Boston University&#8217;s &#8220;Center for Antiracist Research.&#8221; Within weeks, massive donations were flowing in. Jack Dorsey, the weird-beard founder of Twitter, donated $10 million to Rogers&#8217; new center. Random companies, like Vertex Pharmaceuticals, contributed millions of dollars as well. In total the center raised well over $40 million.
Where was all of this money going? According to Boston University, it was going to fund some really path-breaking, original research in the field of anti-racism. In December of 2020, for example, B.U. published an article on its website, promising that Kendi would be &#8220;bringing antiracist investigators together with data scientists to tackle racial inequities,&#8221; and to &#8220;establish Boston University as the nation’s leading academic institution for data-driven antiracist research.&#8221;
What came of this unprecedented collaboration between Rogers&#8217; anti-racist experts and B.U.&#8217;s data scientists? Were racial inequities &#8220;tackled?&#8221; Not quite. The Washington Free Beacon looked into this. They found that Kendi&#8217;s anti-racist center established something called the Racial Data Lab, which is now completely defunct: &#8220;As of September, the Racial Data Lab only compiled information on COVID-19 infections and deaths. That COVID-19 tracker stopped collecting information in March 2021. The center has since removed the names of anyone who worked on that project from its website.&#8221;
So they compiled information from a bunch of other sources about COVID deaths. And then they stopped after about a year. That&#8217;s it. We reached out to Boston University to see if there was something we were missing, but they didn&#8217;t reply. So it&#8217;s clear that the sum total of B.U.&#8217;s big anti-racism data initiative — the one they touted with articles and a lot of marketing materials — was this little COVID tracker. That&#8217;s it.
To be fair, in its three years of existence, Roger&#8217;s anti-racist center also managed to take other steps towards anti-racism. For example, scholars at the center managed to produce not one, but two published papers. In three years. One of these papers looked at Google street view images, and concluded that neighborhoods with mostly black residents had more &#8220;dilapidated buildings&#8221; than neighborhoods with mostly white residents. It&#8217;s really groundbreaking stuff.
For his part, Kendi had some <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/">bright ideas</a> that he occasionally shared with media outlets in this country. For example, he told Politico: &#8220;To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution. &#8230; The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials. &#8230; It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity.&#8221;
Imagine spending millions of dollars investing in a &#8220;research center&#8221; written by someone who sincerely believes something like that. It&#8217;s so unbelievably degrading, so stupid that it defies analysis, really. What would you tell your shareholders? What would you tell yourself when you look at yourself in the mirror? Is there literally anyone on the planet who thinks a Department of Anti-Racism — literally the acronym is &#8220;DOA,&#8221; dead on arrival — would be a good idea?
Maybe if you were one of Roger&#8217;s investors, you&#8217;d hold out hope that, sooner or later, the scholars in this prestigious anti-racism center are eventually going to buckle down and get to work and produce something that&#8217;s actually useful. But if you thought that, you&#8217;d be wrong. That&#8217;s now very clear. This week, we learned that Kendi&#8217;s anti-racist center has just fired more than half of its staff. They&#8217;ve apparently burned through much of the $40 million they&#8217;ve raised. To be clear, this is an operation that does not involve particle colliders or expensive equipment. This is a bunch of &#8220;anti-racist experts&#8221; telling white people they&#8217;re terrible. They managed to blow through $40 million in three years. And now, at long last, Boston University says it&#8217;s opened an inquiry into where all of this money went exactly. If we&#8217;re being honest, federal prosecutors should probably be doing the same thing at this point. But of course, we know they won&#8217;t, because Henry Rogers is doing their bidding.
At this point it would be easy to gloat over the aftermath of the complete and total implosion of this whole project. There&#8217;s the fact that one of Roger&#8217;s former staffers called these layoffs an example of &#8220;employment violence&#8221; and systemic racism, for example. Many observers have made the point that the woke inevitably eat their own, and that&#8217;s true for the most part. Get a bunch of professional whiners in one room, give them $40 million, and pretty soon they&#8217;ll be out of money, and still complaining. In case that&#8217;s not obvious, Henry Rogers just proved that point.
So what&#8217;s going on here? Why did his anti-racist center really collapse? Was it just mismanagement? Is this an isolated incident confined to Boston University? That&#8217;s possible, but if you look at broader trends, it seems like something else is afoot. It seems like, all over the country, major institutions are ditching DEI scammers. It&#8217;s not just happening in Boston. According to one recent analysis, job postings for DEI positions fell by roughly 20% last year. The average tenure of senior DEI executives that Fortune 500 companies hired since 2018 has been less than two years, according to a consulting firm that specializes in this area. BLM is in the red as of the last fiscal year. They&#8217;re bleeding cash, much of which they wasted on mansions in California.
Seeing all this, it&#8217;s tempting to say that the whole anti-racism scam is collapsing. But as welcome a development as that would be, I think we have to resist the temptation to come to that conclusion. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening here. As we&#8217;ve all learned over the past ten years, the race hustle is far too useful and profitable to the people in power. And multiple generations of Americans have been too thoroughly indoctrinated into it. Millions of black Americans really do believe that they are victims, while millions of whites really do see themselves as guilty of imaginary racial sins. Just because Henry Rogers and a lot of his imitators have been exposed doesn&#8217;t mean that the underlying ideology has been defeated. These charlatans are low-hanging fruit. They&#8217;re grunts that are easily replaceable.
Think of how quickly these grifters took control of every major cultural and political institution. We went from &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge people based on their skin color&#8221; to &#8220;discrimination is anti-racist&#8221; in a very short period of time. It feels like it happened overnight. The Protestant Reformation took longer to get going, if only because people were communicating by horse or ship-borne letters. The woke social credit/equity/bio-surveillance state can take hold much faster. They can elevate con artists like Henry Rogers so quickly that we don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s happening until they&#8217;ve got $40 million and control of major universities. They can scam the most sophisticated investors on the planet, from tech executives to Big Pharma.
Henry Rogers and his team haven&#8217;t done much in their tenure as highly paid anti-racist activists. But they have demonstrated one thing, albeit inadvertently. And that&#8217;s the fact that there isn&#8217;t any substance to so-called anti-racist ideology. It&#8217;s just mega corporations looking to give big payouts to the first guy they find with an exotic name. If it&#8217;s not fraud, it&#8217;s something very close to it. If the Right can finally admit that, instead of playing along with these charlatans and funding the universities that promote this garbage, then things can change very quickly. But if we can&#8217;t take those steps, then nothing will change. If we continue to tolerate this, then no matter what happens to Henry Rogers, we can look forward to many more Ibram X. Kendis down the line. 
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Is The Anti-Racism Grift Collapsing?

Boston University announced Wednesday that it would conduct an &#8220;inquiry&#8221; into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Antiracist</a> Research amid complaints about its culture.
The inquiry will be a broader version of a previous &#8220;examination,&#8221; looking at the center&#8217;s grant management practices, a spokesperson for Boston University <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Boston Globe.
The inquiry also comes shortly after layoffs at the center. Kendi recently laid off about 20 employees, more than half the center&#8217;s staff, the university <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ibram-x-kendis-center-antiracist-research-lays-off-staff-members-boston-university-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> last week.
Kendi, a prominent critical race theory scholar, has become an influential voice on &#8220;antiracism&#8221; over the last several years, especially after his book, &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist,&#8221; became a New York Times bestseller in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
He has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. Kendi has also faced criticism for his book &#8220;Antiracist Baby,&#8221; a children&#8217;s picture book that introduces children to the concept of antiracism.
The Center for Antiracist Research was established in June 2020, just days after Floyd&#8217;s death, when Kendi was hired as a history professor at Boston University. Since then, the center has raised tens of millions of dollars from donors.
The center managed to accomplish certain projects, such as teaming up with The Boston Globe to <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/the-emancipator/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launch</a> a digital publication called The Emancipator. However, many other projects have gone uncompleted, such as a Racial Data Tracker, which would be &#8220;the nation’s largest online database of racial inequity data in the United States.&#8221;
The center “was just being mismanaged on a really fundamental level,” Phillipe Copeland, a Boston University professor who worked at the center, told the Globe.
Copeland skewered the center in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying the layoffs amount to &#8220;employment violence and trauma.&#8221;
&#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&#8217;s about the cultures and systems that allow it to occur,&#8221; Copeland <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-univ-professor-calls-layoffs-ibram-x-kendis-antiracism-center-employment-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Sunday.
“I don’t know where the money is,” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Saida Grundy, another Boston University professor who worked at the center.
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Kendi reportedly did not delegate authority, which slowed the center&#8217;s operations.
He was also on leave from the center during the last several months, and when he returned last week, he reportedly laid off about 20 staffers over Zoom, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to one of the professors at the center.
Kendi “takes strong exception to the allegations made in recent complaints and media reports,” the Boston University spokesperson said.
The center&#8217;s scholars have also produced very little research, and the two research papers they have put out have been co-authored with other academics, a Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ibram-kendis-center-for-antiracist-research-hasnt-produced-any-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> found.
Global health professor Elaine Nsoesie, who <a href="https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/elaine-nsoesie/#:~:text=Elaine%20Nsoesie%20is%20an%20Associate,University%20Center%20for%20Antiracist%20Research." target="_blank" rel="noopener">leads</a> the Racial Data Tracker project at the center, co-authored a January <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2800557?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=011823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that concluded that areas with more black residents had more &#8220;dilapidated buildings.&#8221;
Management and organizations professor Sanaz Mobasseri, another <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/sanaz-mobasseri/#:~:text=Sanaz%20Mobasseri%20is%20an%20Assistant,amongst%20employees%20in%20the%20workplace." target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholar</a> at the center, co-authored a <a href="https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.2021.0446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that stated, &#8220;We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group in U.S. society.&#8221;
How long Boston University&#8217;s probe into the center will take is unclear.

Boston University Announces ‘Inquiry’ Into Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Antiracist’ Center

Boston University Announces 'Inquiry' Into Ibram X. Kendi’s 'Antiracist' Center

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The education center founded at Boston University by leftist academic and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> proponent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ibram-x-kendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a> will be firing staffers, according to a new report.
Between 15-20 staffers at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research will be fired, <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2023/ibram-x-kendis-antiracism-center-at-bu-is-laying-off-staff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Semafor. Kendi, the author of books like “Antiracist Baby” and “How to be an Antiracist,” is “committed to working with and supporting affected employees as they look for their next opportunities,” according to BU spokesman Colin Riley.
The center was launched by Kendi shortly after the death of George Floyd in May 2020. According to Riley, the center will be transitioning to a “fellowship model” and would soon have new details on this “new direction.&#8221; The Washington Free Beacon reported <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ibram-x-kendis-ivory-tower-comes-crashing-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that</a> as many as 45 employees worked at the center, which <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> its mission as “building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all.”
The center sponsors <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/narrative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">projects</a> like creating “antiracism curriculum,” an “antiracist book festival,” and “antiracism training for the workforce.”
“The Center for Antiracist Research is a full-service organization that translates antiracist ideas into action by unifying research, policy, narrative, and advocacy efforts. We take a rigorous, research-based, and integrative approach to transforming a racist society to an antiracist one,” the center <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/the-center/frequently-asked-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> about itself, adding that the center is where “academic research meets antiracist action.”
Kendi has developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ibram-x-kendi-macarthur-fellows-genius-grant-winner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Kendi would be receiving 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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For example, in November 2021, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crts-ibram-kendi-likens-american-house-to-racist-nightmare-in-25k-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged $25,000</a> for a speech at the Virginia Governor’s Housing Conference.
“Some of us are living in that liberated closet and there are many communities and organizations who have created very nice living rooms,” Kendi said with regard to restructuring America. “But the actual bedrooms and basement and kitchen and attic and everywhere else is [sic] deeply racist. There’s this perspective that it’s impossible to indeed tear down the house and build it.”
At another event in Virginia, Kendi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-uva-a-public-university-spent-nearly-541-per-minute-for-ibram-kendi-racial-equity-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> $32,500 for a one-hour lecture at the University of Virginia where he discussed “racial equity.”
He argues that whites must acknowledge their privilege and implicit bias, as well as America’s systemic racism, to oppose racism.

Ibram X. Kendi’s Academic Center Focusing On ‘Antiracism’ To Fire Staffers

Ibram X. Kendi’s Academic Center Focusing On 'Antiracism' To Fire Staffers

Conservative economist Glenn Loury, whose disdain for Critical Race Theory (CRT) leader Ibram X. Kendi is swiftly becoming legendary, went on a tirade on his podcast that left his guest Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter, laughing and unable to speak.
Loury has been outspoken in his condemnation of black leaders who he feels are charlatans, including Rev. Al Sharpton.
Speaking on his podcast of Kendi, he stated, “I’ve lectured at the London School of Economics; I’ve lectured at the Delhi school of Economics; I’ve lectured in Korea and Ghana and South Africa. If I say it it’ll sound self-aggrandizing but I’m a lot more than a black conservative writing at Substack and disagreeing with &#8230; some of these dudes. I mean way, way, way more.”
Then he launched into his tirade that left McWhorter laughing helplessly: “And so that’s why, and I know you share this with me, I take umbrage at the lionization of lightweight, empty-suited, empty-headed motherf***ers like Ibram X. Kendi, who couldn&#8217;t carry my book bag. Who hasn’t read a f***ing thing. If you ask him what Nietzche said he would have no idea.”
“I’m sorry; I’m sorry; he’s an unserious, superficial, empty-suited lightweight,” he continued. “He’s not our equal. Not even close.”
“Empty suits get paraded around as if they are — it’s called paper- mâché. It’s the emperor who has no clothes,” he added.
Loury has slammed Kendi in the past, saying, “Where is the erudition? Where is the subtle interpretation of a canonical text? Where is the sustained argument? Where’s the insight? Where’s the mastery?”
Loury also chimed in on the affirmative action cases weighing before the Supreme Court:
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This affirmative action case — this is going to come to a head now &#8230; there’s a decision that’s going to be handed down at the end of the term in May or June of next year. This is fundamental. You can remember how the Bakke case and all of that and the challenges to affirmative action came up to the Supreme Court in the early 00’s; it’s like we’re gonna finally work this out. The Court is very conservative and they’re going to do something very significant in terms of the jurisprudential foundation of racial discrimination by public agents.
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In September 2021, Loury <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/glenn-loury-rips-sharpton-the-clock-keeps-ticking-on-poor-black-people-the-demagoguery-that-spews-out-of-him/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripped Sharpton</a>, saying:
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If Al Sharpton were running around talking about charter schools; if he were running around urging African-Americans to adopt kids who don’t have any parents; if he were insisting that it’s possible for black kids compete effectively if they get the kind of instruction and support that they need to acquire the intellectual skills that allow them to compete in an exam school situation or anything like that; if he was going to find ex-offenders who were prepared to reject the gang life and affirm decent ways of living and foster relationships of guidance with young men who were not yet on the right path and so forth and so on; if he was working with the cops and not against the cops to try to keep the peace in some of these neighborhoods, I’d have more respect for him.
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He continued, “But it’s a very high-level shtick. He’s refined it to perfection, and he’s out Jesse Jacksoning Jesse Jackson in the twenty-first century while the clock keeps ticking on poor black people, and the demagoguery that spews out of him is almost completely unrelated to the actual material needs of this population.”

Loury

‘Lightweight, Empty-Suited, Empty-Headed Motherf***ers Like Ibram X. Kendi’: Loury Gives Epic Rant On CRT Leader

Loury Gives Epic Rant On CRT Leader Ibram X. Kendi

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A new report out of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota</a> shows yet again that when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> is put into practice, it is nothing more than overt anti-white <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racism</a>.
Supposedly to correct past wrongs, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teachers-union-requires-white-teachers-be-fired-before-educators-of-color-to-remedy-past-discrimination">conjured up a collective bargaining agreemen</a>t that stipulates that white teachers be fired before their non-white colleagues. The Minneapolis Public School District not only agreed to that firing practice but is now defending it.
Under the contract, non-white teachers are considered a “population underrepresented among licensed teachers.&#8221; That racial category means that for some reason they should be prevented from being laid off first — regardless of their educational qualifications.
The recent contract agreement between the union and Minneapolis public schools states, “Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population.”
“Excessing” refers to the reduction of staff.
The justification for such blatant racial discrimination is purportedly to rectify “past discrimination.”
In a statement given to the Washington Times, the Minneapolis school district actually defended its racist policies.
“To remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination, Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) mutually agreed to contract language that aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups as compared to the labor market and to the community served by the school district,” the district <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/16/minneapolis-school-district-defends-deal-lay-white/">told</a> the D.C.-based paper.
If that sounds familiar, it is because it is nearly identical to the advice from one of America’s most “preeminent” Critical Race Theory hucksters, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination,” Kendi <a href="https://highlights.sawyerh.com/highlights/Wc3cIP436n60JRoYYTVe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in his seminal book, “How To Be An Anti-Racist.”
&#8220;The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
Those principles once laid out and foisted upon college kids across America are now being played out in the real world.
What’s worse is that the educators behind the anti-white discrimination want it to be a nationwide model of success.
“It can be a national model, and schools in other states are looking to emulate what we did,” Edward Barlow, a band teacher at Anwatin Middle School and a member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers executive board, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teachers-union-requires-white-teachers-be-fired-before-educators-of-color-to-remedy-past-discrimination">told</a> the Star Tribune.
“Even though it doesn’t do everything that we wanted it to do, it’s still a huge move forward for the retention of teachers of color,&#8221; he claimed.
Absent of any qualification is the idea of merit; what reigns supreme in this agreement is the skin color of the teacher. In other words, it is a monumental step backward in the name of &#8220;progress.&#8221;
In the name of social justice, the students — as well as white educators whose only sin is being white — are put last.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Minneapolis Public Schools Defend Anti-White Firing Practices That Put Critical Race Theory Into Practice

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