Future educators are instructed in the work of “White Fragility” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robin-diangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robin DiAngelo</a> in over a dozen universities across the country, according to Parents Defending Education.
The revelation was included in a recent <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PDE_CorruptED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Parents Defending Education, a group focused on ridding ideology from education, that took a deep dive into education class syllabi from 67 universities across the 34 states. The report found that Critical Race Theory and anti-white rhetoric was deeply embedded into the coursework of America’s future educators.
In course description syllabi, Parents Defending Education found 54 references to Critical Race Theory, 28 references to critical theory, 18 references to “oppression” and/or “power,” 55 references to Paulo Freire and the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” 16 references to Robin DiAngelo, 34 references to “queer” or the tenets of queer theory, 31 references to white privilege, 20 references to white supremacy, and 28 references to whiteness.
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DiAngelo, who is featured in Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s new documentary “Am I Racist?,” is well-known for promoting the idea that all white people are racist.
Her work is taught in at least 16 of the universities surveyed, including the University of Southern California, the University of Florida, the Chaminade University of Honolulu College of Education, the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, Missouri State University, the University of New Hampshire, Ohio State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point, and others.
Parents Defending Education researcher Rhyen Staley told The Daily Wire that it was inappropriate for students to be instructed in Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s work.
&#8220;The fact that current and future K-12 teachers are being conditioned to believe that Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s destructive ideas are &#8216;best practice&#8217; is deeply troubling,” he said. “A significant amount of America&#8217;s youth cannot read at grade level, yet Colleges of Education are dedicating time and resources to promoting DiAngelo&#8217;s philosophy of resentment and loathing based on immutable characteristics. DiAngelo&#8217;s hatecraft has no place in any academic setting.&#8221;
The report from Parents Defending Education highlights several other ideologically-focused classes, including a class <a href="https://onepenn.gse.upenn.edu/student-records-registrar/course-registration/4-digit-course-number-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> at the University of Pennsylvania called “Activism Beyond the Classroom.” The <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad0d247af209613040b9ceb/t/5fc682379ee0f32b87363416/1606844983883/Working+ABC+Syllabus+Fall+2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">themes</a> of the class include abolitionism, activism, Black Lives Matter, critical pedagogy, decolonization, and queer theory.
At the University of Utah, the education branch has offered classes like “Racial Battle Fatigue in Education,” “Whiteness Theory and Education,” and “Critical Race Theories: A Focus on FemCrit and LatCrit.”
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Students attending Colorado State University can get an ethnic studies degree with teacher certification with an “Intro to Ethnic Studies” class <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/colorado-state-university-corrupted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">where</a> they can learn about “whiteness,” “white privilege,” and “Trump and the politics of hate and White radicalism.”
The activist-focused classes are not only in blue states, but even present at institutions in conservative states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Ohio.
For example, a <a href="https://jpetrovic.people.ua.edu/uploads/4/8/4/7/48477307/667forweb.pdf">class</a> called “Multicultural and Social Education for Leadership Personnel” at the University of Alabama includes themes on anti-racism, decolonization, Marxism, and queer theory.
&#8220;Across the nation, parents and policy makers have been pushing back against school districts that have been implementing radical ideologies such as critical race theory, queer theory, decolonization, whiteness, and anti-meritocracy,&#8221; Parents Defending Education said in a summary of its research. &#8220;Unfortunately, these ideas are being ingrained into both current and future teachers, becoming part of K-12 lessons, classroom culture, and worldview.&#8221;

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Colleges Train Future Teachers In Work Of Robin DiAngelo, Queer Theory, And ‘White Radicalism’

Critical Race Theory

Education

Robin DiAngelo

U.S.

White Fragility

Matt Walsh&#8217;s new movie, “<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/">Am I Racist?</a>” is out and causing seismic waves throughout the DEI community.
Apparently, there are members of the movie theater employee community who are attempting to stop people from actually seeing the film. One movie theater employee reportedly put out a post saying, “I will be making the transaction as difficult as possible for anyone seeing the Matt Walsh movie.” Another person said, “Can you take the good seats out of service without anyone noticing? Only sell the creatures that crawl out of the mud to see this thing the crap seats.”
The Left is doing its best to prevent people from seeing the film, even at the lowest levels. But it is not stopping the fallout.
One of the funniest scenes in the film is the scene in which Matt sits down with Robin DiAngelo. It is hysterical.
Robin DiAngelo is the author of an incredibly best-selling book titled “White Fragility.” In 2020, during the Black Lives Matter summer, Robin DiAngelo became a big item. Her book sold like hotcakes; it was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for weeks and sold hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of copies.
And it is complete and utter tripe. It is an awful piece of trash.
I did a 30-minute <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgnX84KD7A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">takedown</a> of it on YouTube, point by point, through her entire trash book. The book makes no sense. It is selfish. It is self-defeating. The entire book contradicts itself. It is logically incoherent.
It happens to be also particularly ugly because the basic idea is that if you are white, then you are inherently sinful and there is no way to escape that sin except for doing what DiAngelo wants you to do, politically speaking.
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So there&#8217;s a scene in the film where Matt and his producers somehow got DiAngelo to sit down with Matt. The premise of “Am I Racist?”is that Matt is a very woke guy who falls into the philosophy of DEI and chases it all the way down the rabbit hole. It’s kind of like a Nathan Fielder movie.
In this particular scene with DiAngelo, he’s sitting with her and let&#8217;s just say that he manipulates her into doing something so insane on camera that it should be career-ending — and she knows it, which is presumably why she has now basically deactivated her Twitter account.
DiAngelo has released <a href="https://www.robindiangelo.com/about-that-film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> slamming Matt Walsh. She vowed in a statement not to watch the film. Here&#8217;s what she said:
<blockquote>Back in 2023, I was contacted by a group who claimed to be making a documentary film called Shades of Justice, about efforts to address racism in the United States. They planned to interview anti-racist activists, authors and thought leaders in service of supporting the cause of racial equity. They offered me between $10-20,000 for an interview. I said let’s meet in the middle with $15,000 and agreed to participate (I have since donated that sum to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund).</blockquote>
I&#8217;m sure that she donated that sum after she found out she was in the film and realized, oh, boy, this is going to be bad.
And it’s weird that she only agreed to be in the film for $15,000, except for the fact that, as Matt&#8217;s movie exposes, this whole thing is a giant grift. DiAngelo has been picking up checks from some of the biggest corporations in America for years to teach absolute horse crap to people. In exchange, she receives the money and the credibility, and then she takes those credentials, “Hey, I taught at Google,” moves on to Apple, and picks up a big stack of cash from them.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2047-matt-walsh-destroys-the-dei-industry-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
So she took $15,000 to sit down for the documentary “Shades of Justice,” an anti-racist documentary. 
<blockquote>When I arrived for the interview, a few things felt off. The grips would not make eye contact with me and the interviewer, who was introduced as “Matt,” appeared to be wearing an ill-fitting wig. Matt presented himself as someone new to antiracist work and seemed earnest, and his questions did not come across as adversarial. By the end, however, things got weird.</blockquote>
That’s the whole point: When doing something like what Matt did, the whole point of it is, what do these people say to each other behind closed doors? You can&#8217;t do that if you enter in an adversarial way. So he asked her questions, and she couldn&#8217;t tell what was going on.
<blockquote>Matt asked what I thought about reparations for Black Americans. I said that I agreed with reparations but that it was not my area of expertise. He then pulled up a chair and invited a Black crew-member who went by “Ben” to sit with us, took out his wallet and handed Ben some cash. He said that if I believed in reparations, I should also give Ben cash. While some Black people have asked white people to engage in reparations by giving directly to individuals, reparations are generally understood as a systemic approach to past and current injustice. The way Matt set this up felt intended to put Ben and I on the spot.</blockquote>
There&#8217;s a problem with this particular statement. Ben happens to be a producer on the film. So it didn&#8217;t put Ben and you on the spot; it put you on the spot because you&#8217;re a hypocrite.
<blockquote>Because Matt was pushing this on us, I expressed my discomfort and checked in with Ben, to be sure he was okay with receiving cash in this way. Ben reassured me that he was, so I went to my wallet and handed him my cash and the interview ended. I was so unsettled by the way Matt manipulated this last scene that I emailed the contact person – who went by the name of “Lee Hampton” – to explain that this scene was not an example of reparations and could mislead viewers. I asked that they not use it in the film and shared several resources overviewing legitimate systemic efforts for reparations. He assured me that he understood and that they had not yet decided whether to address reparations. He never again contacted me or answered an email.
After reviewing the sequence of events and discussing it with colleagues, I realized that they had lied about their agenda and I had been played. I spread the word on my networks. Unfortunately, last month I started receiving hateful and misogynistic emails. Some referenced the Daily Wire (Ben Shapiro’s website), which announced that the film is indeed being released. It is not titled Shades of Justice nor is it meant to support the anti-racist cause.</blockquote>
Yes, because you won&#8217;t speak to anybody who doesn&#8217;t support the anti-racist cause.
<blockquote>It is a Borat-style mockumentary titled Am I Racist? and designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.</blockquote>
Yes, that&#8217;s accurate. That&#8217;s true.
<blockquote>Their deception was carefully planned and well-funded. The website they had sent me was fake, as were their identities, the project title used in the legal waiver, their description of the project, and the last name they gave for Matt. The interviewer was in fact, Matt Walsh, a far-right provocateur backed by Shapiro and Daily Wire+ (and yes, wearing a wig).
The co-CEO of the Daily Wire has stated: “I can’t think of a more appropriate film for the Daily Wire’s first original theatrical release than Am I Racist? What Is a Woman? changed the national conversation on radical gender theory, effectively killing the issue and DEI is the next pillar of the woke mind virus that’s about to topple. DEI culture is one of the most toxic plagues in American life.”
Am I A Racist? is not only about me and I was not the only one who fell for their deception. Sadly, many of those being mocked are women of Color.
I have not seen the film nor do I plan to watch it, so I don’t know what they have used of my interview or how they have edited it, but if you see clips or the full film, consider the source: Matt Walsh. So, who is Matt Walsh and what is his – and his backers’ – agenda? Luckily for us, he has clearly answered that question, without shame, time and time again. …
Shapiro and Walsh’s previous film Lady Ballers, is filled with misogyny, racism and transphobia. Shapiro also sponsored a film denigrating George Floyd. </blockquote>
Oh, wait, you mean that we said that maybe George Floyd wasn&#8217;t killed by Derek Chauvin, that maybe he died of a drug overdose that was induced by high stress? Wait, you mean like checking the medical evidence? Or maybe we pointed out that George Floyd, in fact, led a pretty checkered criminal life?
<blockquote>This experience has reinforced for me how critically important it is to do in-depth background research before making yourself vulnerable to people you don’t know, or believing and sharing what you see online. They will not prevail in their efforts to stop the work for racial justice.</blockquote>
Well, it seems like we prevailed just a little, since you deactivated your Twitter account. So that’s a little awkward for you.
Matt <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834351644198289717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “Robin DiAngelo has issued a statement denouncing our film. She claims the movie is ‘designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.’ She couldn&#8217;t be more correct in that assessment. Thank you, Robin!” <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834351941717295182">Then</a>, “My favorite part of this wonderful statement is that she says she noticed my ‘ill fitting wig’ when she first sat down with me. And yet for some reason, she still did the interview.”
Maybe it was the $15,000. Matt also noted that people are very angry at him: “He used methods of deception.”
You mean in a mockumentary in which you expose people? So Matt <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834570026428375240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “Many on the Left are criticizing the tactics we use to make our film. Notice how they make no such criticisms about Borat. The difference is that Borat was meant to embarrass normal working class Americans. Our film embarrasses DEI, grifters, academics and upper class liberals. <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834571047502286951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Even Nathan Fielder</a>, who I think is hilarious and brilliant, usually uses these kinds of methods to humiliate average people who haven&#8217;t done anything to deserve the humiliation. The Left is fine with that, too. With our new film, and our last film, we&#8217;re actually punching up. But somehow we&#8217;re the ‘unethical’ ones. Interesting.”
That is exactly right.
The film is already in roughly 1,500 theaters across the country. It has not been reviewed a single time at Rotten Tomatoes. Zero reviews. None. In fact, if you go to the Rotten Tomatoes page, brought to you by Fandango, they have a sort of scrolling wheel here saying, “New &amp; now in theaters,” and it lists every movie except for Matt’s movie. It’s not there. 
They&#8217;re going to try to ignore this the same way they tried to ignore “What Is A  Woman?”
Don&#8217;t let them ignore it.
Go out and see it.

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Matt Walsh Destroys The DEI Industry

Am I Racist

Anti-Racism

Ben Shapiro

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Documentaries

Matt Walsh

Movie Theaters

Movies

The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s interview with The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh about his new movie, <a href="https://www.amiracist.com/">“Am I Racist?”</a> In this segment, Walsh describes witnessing the real phenomena of white guilt when filming. He explains that without religion, people’s inability to interpret the feeling of guilt caused by sins becomes misplaced. In search of understanding, people are deceived by con artists who make money showcasing white-guilt subterfuge and the like, causing white guilt to become a replacement for religion. For more from Dr. Peterson, see his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">extensive catalog</a> available on DailyWire+. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/tbd-matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/tbd-matt-walsh-ad-free" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watch</a> the full podcast episode on DailyWire+.
Start time: 1:28:58
Jordan B. Peterson: What did you learn as a consequence of doing the movie, and why should people go see it, as far as you&#8217;re concerned?
Matt Walsh: I think there are several things. Maybe the main thing that I learned — and I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s learned so much as had illustrated for me — but a lot of people who fall for this… You know, there are the people that push it: the Robin D&#8217;Angelo types, the women who run the race to dinner we have in the film—
Peterson: Oh, yes. Saira Rao … She runs those dinners where the white women pay to be humiliated by two unbelievably narcissistic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/characteristics-of-a-psychopath-and-the-making-of-the-dark-tetrad">psychopaths</a> so that they actually feel good about themselves without actually having to do any more or having to put in any of the moral effort.
Walsh: Exactly, exactly. And that&#8217;s the thing. Those types of people, the people who are running the show, that&#8217;s one thing. And I don&#8217;t know how much they even believe a lot of what they&#8217;re saying. I don&#8217;t think they believe all of it, certainly. And there&#8217;s not a lot to be learned about them. I think that they&#8217;re grifters. They&#8217;re con artists. They&#8217;re making a lot of money on this stuff. That&#8217;s a big part of the motivation. It&#8217;s not very complicated. 
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But what&#8217;s more interesting to me are the women who would sit around that table who are paying money to be there, or the people who would willingly attend one of these seminars that we have in the film, people who would willingly read Robin D&#8217;Angelo&#8217;s book. I&#8217;ve always been more interested in them. Like what&#8217;s going on with them? And what I found making the film is that, you really can&#8217;t overstate the guilt that these people are walking around with. White guilt. White guilt is a very real phenomenon. I knew that making the movie, but having it illustrated so profoundly was still pretty enlightening to me, that a lot of these people are just walking around with a lot of guilt.
And, for a sane, rational white person like myself and you, it can be hard to understand because I&#8217;ve never spent any time feeling guilty about slavery or Jim Crow. I had nothing to do with it. I&#8217;ve never spent any time feeling guilty about it at all. And so it&#8217;s hard for us to understand people who, not only have they felt guilt about it, but they&#8217;re overcome with guilt by this kind of thing. 
Peterson: How much of that, though, too, is that they want to signal how overcome by guilt they are so that they look like hypermoral agents? I see the same thing with mothers, in particular, who brandish their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-identity-crisis-a-struggle-with-ones-self">trans children</a> like their flag of pride. It&#8217;s like, “Oh, look at how upset and confused my child is, and yet I&#8217;m still wonderful enough to love them no matter what.” It&#8217;s a really malevolent game. And that parading your self-flagellation indicates the profundity of your guilt, that&#8217;s a pretty bloody ugly game too. 
Now, I understand that there&#8217;s a fair bit of genuine moral confusion mixed in there, but the self-serving in public — you notice that those women go to those dinners in groups. It&#8217;s not Saira Rao and her pathological partner with one woman. They have to do that group so they can signal to each other the depths of their moral virtue.
Walsh: Yes, I think that’s certainly right. There&#8217;s a certain amount of virtue signaling that goes into it for sure. But the race to dinner — just using that again as an example — that&#8217;s seven or eight minutes in the movie, but, of course, you&#8217;re making a movie, especially a movie like this, they take a lot longer to film, and that was really two hours. I mean, that dinner went on for two hours, and you can see these women sitting around at this table at various points crying, seemingly very much overcome with emotion talking about their racism that they feel, given opportunities to talk about examples of when they committed racist acts, and then they share their examples. And it&#8217;s like none of the examples they give are actual racism.
And yes, again, some of that is them just showing off, but I do think that at the core of it, there is real guilt here. And we could spend another two hours psychoanalyzing this, but my own theory about how they can feel this guilt is that it&#8217;s a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/substitutes-for-religion-are-meaningless">replacement for religion</a>. Almost all of them are irreligious people. Even if they would call themselves Christian, they&#8217;re not really. And traditionally, religion has given us an answer for guilt. 
Now, I don&#8217;t feel any racial guilt, I don’t feel any white guilt. But I do feel guilt. I do experience guilt for things that I do that are wrong. If I commit sins, I feel guilty about them. But then, I turn to my faith and that gives me an answer for, number one, why I feel that guilt, what that guilt is from, and then what to do with it, what I do about that guilt. And I can turn to my faith and get an answer to all of that. 
But if you take religion out of it, well, now you&#8217;ve still got people that are sinning, that are doing evil acts, and so they&#8217;re still going to feel the guilt because of it. But they don&#8217;t have a way of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-its-psychologically-dangerous-to-confuse-political-ideologies-with-religious-movements">understanding that guilt</a>. They don&#8217;t have any way of interpreting it. And so they look around for someone to tell them what to do with the guilt. And then these racial husslers are there, and then they&#8217;ll tell you, “Oh, I&#8217;ll tell you why you feel guilty. It&#8217;s because of this.” That’s a big part of it. 
Peterson: Well, I think that&#8217;s a good analysis. When you were a somewhat profligate 24-year-old, you needed to channel the meaninglessness and the guilt that was associated with your unmoored life into something that was properly sacrificial. And you <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-act-of-faith-why-marriage-is-far-better-than-the-single-life">got married</a> and you <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-marriage-is-the-highest-form-of-play">had kids</a>. That provides a pathway where you can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-more-reliable-and-meaningful-aim-than-happiness">discharge your moral duty</a>. That&#8217;s the thing. 
It&#8217;s necessary for human beings to discharge their moral duty; otherwise, they&#8217;ll be overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy and self-deprecation. That&#8217;s because we are communal and social creatures, and we have to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-dinners-shared-meals-and-the-importance-of-social-engagement">live in relationship</a> to other people. If we don&#8217;t do that, we violate our deepest instincts or our most divine calling.
As you said, for the typical person, you find that expiation of your self-centeredness in responsibility to your wife, like long-term committed responsibility, and to your kids, to your grandkids, and to that multi-generational endeavor. If we didn&#8217;t have that propensity for guilt, we wouldn&#8217;t be social the way that we are. And it can be exploited by the sadistic, narcissistic, histrionic psychopaths. And the women who run that race to dinner are great examples of that. Man, they’re something to watch.

Jordan Peterson/Matt Walsh

Interpreting Guilt: How White Guilt Becomes A Replacement For Religion

Jordan Peterson

Leftism

Readers Pass

Disney+ animated series &#8220;The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder&#8221; doubles down on its woke agenda in the second season pushing a CRT (Critical Race Theory) and an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks">LGBTQ</a> agenda.
The second season of the Disney cartoon hit the streaming site on February 1, 2023, and it introduced its young audience to words like &#8220;sexist&#8221; and &#8220;white fragility.&#8221; In the 10-episode second season of the reboot of the popular 2001 show &#8220;The Proud Family,&#8221; white characters in the show are made to feel bad for being white and have to apologize for things like &#8220;slavery,&#8221; &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; and more.
To recap, in the first season, fans see that Penny Proud, the oldest daughter of the Proud family is now 14 and in middle school, dealing with puberty and dating. One of her pals, Michael, who previously dressed like a boy and liked fashion — now considered &#8220;gender fluid&#8221; — dresses like a girl, with feminine looking-clothes and pink hair in every episode. At one point, in the second season, Michael describes himself as a &#8220;they&#8221; introducing the audience to woke pronouns.
In the reboot, the new kid in town is racial activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-rolling-out-childrens-cartoon-featuring-14-year-old-activist-with-interracial-gay-dads">Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins</a>. She is adopted and has two dads, one white/one black. She&#8217;s the one who pushes race issues for most of the first season. But by this second season, every character is exhaustingly forced into her way of seeing the world.
During the first episode, the word “sexist” is introduced when Penny&#8217;s grandmother &#8220;Suga Mama&#8221; tells Penny that her great grandfather didn&#8217;t like Suga Mama &#8220;cause she&#8217;s not a boy.&#8221; We also dive right into race issues when Suga Mama revealed that it was illegal for her to marry someone that wasn&#8217;t black when she was growing up in Oklahoma. By the end of the episode, the great grandpa said his daughter proved to him &#8220;a girl can be as good as a boy&#8221; after Suga Mama becomes the first female to win the bull riding championship.
In episode two, Penny, again a 14-year-old, said she can&#8217;t wait to move out, after getting busted for trying to sneak into the house past her curfew after being out with a boy she likes. When she tells her friends she&#8217;s in trouble, Michael calls her &#8220;a budding Kardashian&#8221; and they are all envious. At school, teacher Brother Kwame writes on the chalkboard &#8220;Activism and Journalism&#8221; and writes names of well-known woke activists like Ta-Nehisi-Coates, Michelle Alexander, and Saeed Jones, to name a few.
During episode three, a friend of Penny&#8217;s tells her &#8220;you can take your model minority myth&#8221; somewhere else when she tries to recruit her into the debate team. Penny then finds out this means the girl is calling her a racist and she replied, &#8220;black people can&#8217;t be racist.&#8221; One of Penny&#8217;s friends added, &#8220;I agree. Racism is prejudice plus power, but we can be jerks. I give you that.&#8221; The debate team then must discuss the issue of &#8220;Reparations.&#8221; Penny said, &#8220;we about to get paid.&#8221; In the end, Penny and the team sing a song about reparations and slavery, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-cartoon-demands-reparations-and-more-with-slaves-built-this-country-song">reported</a>.
Episode four goes back to the LGBTQ agenda and deals with the backstory of Maya&#8217;s two dads and how they met. There are several scenes of the two men embracing in romantic ways as they talk about their relationship. Later in the season, Maya&#8217;s dad steps out in a black leather jacket, pants, and hat with no shirt. It&#8217;s reminiscent of something worn by the Village People. Barry gives the other dad a  kiss on the cheek after he figures out what to wear.
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By the sixth episode, the series goes all in on the race agenda in one titled &#8220;The End of Innocence.&#8221; In this one, Penny and her friends are excited to learn that a star will be attending their school named Noah Barker. But it is his interest in one girl Zoey, who is white, that changes everyone&#8217;s attitude towards her. Maya tells the group of friends she heard &#8220;Noah&#8217;s only into white girls.&#8221; Dijonay then repeats the same line and another friend adds, &#8220;yeah no chocolate, no caramel, no sprinkles, no nothing.&#8221;
Zoey&#8217;s friends then decide it&#8217;s not fair that Barker only likes Zoey and that he doesn&#8217;t invite them to the school dance because they aren&#8217;t white. Penny is the only one who defends her friend and said it&#8217;s &#8220;not Zoey&#8217;s fault.&#8221; The kids decide as a group to uninvite Zoey to their annual party. Michael arrives as the Disney princess Pocahontas, dressed like a female with long hair, makeup and wearing a dress. Any criticism by Penny&#8217;s dad Oscar about his appearance gets shut down immediately by the girl&#8217;s mom, Trudy, who praises Michael for his look.
Eventually, Zoey comes to the party and is told by these friends over and over again that the &#8220;reason&#8221; Barker is &#8220;going out with her is because she&#8217;s white.&#8221; Dijonay goes so far as to say to the child, &#8220;it&#8217;s white skin privilege.&#8221; Michael adds, &#8220;why go out with a boy that only likes you cause you’re white.&#8221; A verbal fight ensues and several kids leave, including Michael who leaves the party sharing with viewers the term &#8220;BIPOCs&#8221; (black, indigenous people of color).
In the end, Zoey shows up to the dance with no date and tells her friends that she dumped Barker after he admitted &#8220;he only dates white girls.&#8221; Zoey then has to apologize and said &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry guys. I really didn&#8217;t get it.&#8221;
The final episode, 10, deals with calling loved ones out for their &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and &#8220;white fragility&#8221; with a focus on slavery and an opening scene reminiscent of the Black Lives Matter riots after George Floyd&#8217;s death. The opening shot is Penny and her middle school friends behind bars raising their fists and shouting, &#8220;What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!&#8221; The episode centers on the town finding out the truth behind its founder Christian A. Smith ahead of a ceremony for him. Smith happens to be the great great great grandfather of Maya&#8217;s white dad Barry. At one point, Maya confronts Barry who doesn&#8217;t think his people would &#8220;ever own slaves&#8221; and the other dad responds with a jab to his husband about his &#8220;white fragility.&#8221;
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Through a series of events, a ghost named Emily guides Maya to find her hidden diary which reveals that the founder grew several crops and used slaves to run his property. In her final entry, Emily writes the date June 19 along with a drawing of chains broken from black fists. Maya takes the book to teacher Brother Kwame who explained to the kids that Juneteenth only applied to confederate states. She replied, &#8220;So it&#8217;s true [former President Abraham] Lincoln didn&#8217;t really care about freeing enslaved people,&#8221; and the teacher adds, &#8220;Actually he wanted to deport us.&#8221;
Wild conclusions then soar among the kids as to why the date June 19 is Emily&#8217;s final entry, including that she must&#8217;ve been murdered. Penny and her friends then decide they shouldn&#8217;t be honoring a &#8220;slave owner&#8221; nor renovating &#8220;his statue&#8221; as planned for the ceremony. They push to get it canceled and when that doesn&#8217;t happen they decide the statue needs to be pulled down. After the teacher votes no on that plan, Maya decides &#8220;we will March until they take the statue down.&#8221; These middle schoolers then march through the ceremony carrying signs and chanting &#8220;Christian A. Smith, his legacy is a myth.&#8221; Police show up in riot gear to take the kids away.
Barry&#8217;s husband Randall then calls on his husband to do something with his &#8220;white privilege.&#8221; Barry pulls out his police badge and tells the cops to stop and he ends up getting pushed to the ground, with a shot of the badge being trampled on. Later, Barry apologizes for his ancestors and said he wanted to &#8220;pretend it didn&#8217;t happen&#8221; as he asks for forgiveness from everyone.
After reviewing the entire first and second seasons, it&#8217;s clear Disney&#8217;s PG rating on the show isn&#8217;t strong enough. The writers previously said they wanted a focus on a cultural and a political agenda and for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/long-before-the-reparations-episode-generated-outrage-disneys-proud-family-was-pushing-extreme-leftist-culture-on-kids">many parents</a>, it&#8217;s just too much.
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The nation&#8217;s largest hospital group will require &#8220;conscious inclusion&#8221; training for all employees this year and recommended that employees read Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s &#8220;White Fragility,&#8221; according to internal company documents.
HCA Healthcare said that all employees will receive mandatory &#8220;conscious inclusion&#8221; training in 2021 as part of their &#8220;annual code of conduct refresher training,&#8221; according to the internal documents, which were provided to The Daily Wire by an HCA employee.
&#8220;Conscious inclusion&#8221; training is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresahopke/2021/05/24/the-room-where-it-happenswhere-leadership-inclusion-begins/?sh=7dbdaa837967">considered</a> the next step after &#8220;unconscious bias&#8221; training. While the goal of &#8220;unconscious bias&#8221; training is to reveal to someone their own internal barriers to inclusivity, the goal of “conscious inclusion” training is to provide them with the tools to do something about it.
So far, 45% of HCA employees at the director level or above have already completed &#8220;conscious inclusion&#8221; training, the mammoth hospital group said.
The &#8220;conscious inclusion&#8221; training will include activities like the &#8220;Name That Bias&#8221; card game, and will last up to two and a half hours, an outline of the training shows.
Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; and Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist&#8221; were recommended to employees in a supplemental section with additional resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Also recommended was &#8220;When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,&#8221; which was co-authored by Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, who on Thursday <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/black-lives-matter-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-resigns-amid-controversy/">announced</a> her resignation amid backlash over her expensive lifestyle, which includes four homes.
The hospital group also outlined other &#8220;equity&#8221; commitments for this year, including a goal to have 35% of new hires for management and supervisor roles be people of color.
HCA also announced a new sponsorship program &#8220;for a select cohort of Black colleagues to accelerate advancement in leadership.&#8221; The program was recommended by HCA&#8217;s Black Senior Leadership Council, which was established last year and spearheaded diverse talent recruitment initiatives.
The hospital group is also pledging to invest $300,000 in grants for community partners &#8220;supporting social justice and health equity.&#8221;
Last summer, HCA&#8217;s Chief Diversity Officer Sherri Neal announced a new program where HCA pledged to match employees&#8217; donations to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Black Lives Matter Foundation, the National Urban League, and &#8220;other nonprofits that support racial justice and address health equity for communities of color.&#8221;
It is unclear whether the donations went to the actual Black Lives Matter movement or the &#8220;Black Lives Matter Foundation,&#8221; an unaffiliated charitable organization with one paid employee and a completely different goal of “bringing the community and police closer together,” according to its founder. A slew of companies and organizations <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/black-lives-matter-foundation-unrelated-blm-donations">mistook the group</a> for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation last summer.
HCA did not respond to a request for comment.
The Nashville-based health care group operates at least 185 hospitals and about 2,000 health care sites in the U.S. and Britain, including surgery centers, urgent care centers, diagnostic and imaging centers, and walk-in clinics. It is the <a href="https://blog.definitivehc.com/top-10-largest-health-systems">largest</a> health system in the U.S. both by net patient revenue and by member hospitals.
The group&#8217;s equity goals make HCA the latest health care group to ramp up its equity initiatives in 2021.
Earlier this month, the American Medical Association (AMA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-medical-association-releases-plan-to-embed-racial-justice-in-medical-profession">released</a> a lengthy “anti-racist” plan detailing the organization’s ambitious plan to “embed racial justice” in the medical profession.
The AMA&#8217;s plan pushes for expanding medical school education to include “critical race theory,” “anti-racism,” and “equity-explicit” training.
The American Heart Association (AHA) <a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000936">adopted</a> a similar anti-racist ideology, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing">prompting</a> a lawsuit last year over disciplinary action taken against an Asian American doctor who questioned whether using race in admissions decisions is legal.
Meanwhile, medical schools have adopted dramatic affirmative action policies in order to matriculate a “critical mass” of black applicants, who tend to score lower on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) than their white and Asian counterparts.
Such policies have raised concerns among members of the medical community that lowering standards for those providing life-saving care could have dangerous consequences.

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Largest U.S. Hospital Group Will Require ‘Conscious Inclusion’ Training, Recommended Employees Read ‘White Fragility’

Robin DiAngelo is best known for her 2018 book titled, “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” which later became a New York Times bestseller, reaching the top spot on The New York Times list during the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020.
Since 2016, she has given regular workshops on the topic of “white fragility.” On Friday, a course offered by DiAngelo — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/confronting-racism-with-robin-diangelo/what-you-can-do">available</a> on LinkedIn Learning — titled, “Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo,” started trending on Twitter, with many shocked to find the advice she was giving participants.
In one of the latter sections titled, “What you can do,” DiAngelo claims that she doesn’t “think white people really want to know what to do, unless it’s the most simplistic thing, which is just keep being friendly.”
“That question tends to function as a way to jump over the hard, personal work and just get to the answer or get to the solution. It’s a little bit arrogant for folks who have never in their life thought deeply about this and after an hour, they want to get the answer and go fix it,” DiAngelo continues. “At the same time, we can’t wait until we have it all figured out. And so I will offer a challenging question back. And then I will answer the what do we do?”
The questions DiAngelo poses are: “What about your life has allowed you to be a full functioning professional, educated adult and not know what to do about racism?” “How have you managed not to know?” and “Why is that your question?”
Later, DiAngelo states that part of the solution is to try “to be a little less white.”
“I’m really clear that I am not going to be free of my conditioning, and racism is not going to end in my lifetime,” DiAngelo admits. “The question I ask myself is, how do I do a little less harm? And how do I know, right? Am I in any given moment behaving in anti-racist ways?”
She then continues to explain what it means to be “less white”:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Be less oppressive</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Be less arrogant</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Be less certain</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Be less defensive</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Be less ignorant</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Be more humble</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Listen</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Believe</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Break with apathy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Break with white solidarity</li>
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The argument here, of course, is that to be more white would mean to be more oppressive, more arrogant, more certain, more defensive, more ignorant, less humble, not to listen, not to believe, to continue being apathetic, and to engage in white solidarity. In other words, “whiteness” is inherently connected to oppression, arrogance, certainty, defensiveness, ignorance, lack of humility, inability to listen, apathy, and racial solidarity.
Robin DiAngelo, who is white, is often paid large sums by corporations and institutions to provide <a href="https://reason.com/2020/08/14/uconn-will-pay-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-20000-to-train-school-administrators/">training</a> on coming “to grips with the critical questions of racism and inclusion.” In 2020, it was reported that UConn was paying DiAngelo $20,000 for a three-day retreat, and that “DiAngelo and other diversity lecturers often charge in the $10,000 to $15,000 dollar range for a few hours of work,” even charging “$320 per hour for a phone call.”

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Pat Brown and Dave Brown are authors of Black and White: How the Left is Destroying the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Founding Fathers.
Pat: This morning, I woke up to no headlines about MLK, Jr. Day in the Google feed! Not one! If I search under Google News, I do come up with a few stories about MLK in the conservative media. How fascinating is that? Has the Left abandoned MLK’s dream for a new, more progressive version of race in America? It seems that the dream of Martin Luther King — that we all get judged by our characters and not our colors, that our children, black and white, would hold hands and be friends in the years ahead of his great speech in Washington D.C. — has turned into a nightmare. When I married a black man in 1979 and raised three non-white children, I depended on MLK’s vision to come true, and I thought it would. In fact, it seems to me, we were doing well on that journey until the arrival of Barack Obama, and the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dave: When does Martin Luther King get canceled? By today’s standards, his message of a colorblind society and racial unity seems dated. His message was blunt; equality, that’s it. He had a dream that “the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” But is that “woke” enough by today’s standards?  From everything we’ve seen over the last four years, that answer is no. We now have “micro-aggressions” and “white fragility” among dozens of other “racial equity tools.”
Pat: I cannot believe today that my grandchildren will suffer more from racism than the kids I raised in the 1980s and 1990s! Why, back then, I just worried about my non-white children not having as good opportunities as if they were white. I never worried about them having bad encounters with the police or being attacked by the Klan or White Supremacists. And they grew up pretty much without those worries. But, now, my two white grandchildren will either be labeled Nazis if they don’t become “allies” with black power groups and practice “anti-racism” or, if they are too black, they will be required to hate white people and join Black Lives Matter or else.
Dave: We’ve learned recently per a Washington Post article that Proud Boy’s member Enrique Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, was part of a phenomenon called “multiracial whiteness,” where persons of color can now engage in the politics of “aggression, exclusion, and domination.” In my childhood, simpler phrases were used; they just called you a “Milkdud” or an “Oreo.” Or if they really wanted to impress upon you that your lack of adherence to leftist dogma was reviled, they would go with the “Uncle Tom” or “bootlicker.” Isn’t that amazing? The people who claim to be the biggest champions of racial equality have invented new ways to well…be racist. We’ve jumped the shark, circled back around, and jumped the shark again. Each new day brings a new twist and turn in the “fight for equality.” 
Pat: And what should white conservatives, black conservatives, biracial conservatives, Hispanic and Asian conservatives do as we enter 2021 and the race war has revved up with the new incoming administration? How do we speak up without losing our livelihoods, our “free speech” on social media, our friends, and, possibly, our lives? How to band together to inspire conservatives of all races and mixed races to fight apartheid in this country. Where do we go from here to keep MLK’s dream alive?
Dave: How did we ruin such a straightforward message? Well, we didn’t. The Left did, and they show no sign of letting up. So today, on Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, I’m nostalgic for yesteryear, where there are no “safe spaces” or “trigger” words. No kneeling for the National Anthem or fists raised in the air. Bring back the time when we as Americans recognized our imperfections, knew we could do better, and strove each day to make this country a little brighter, a little kinder, and a little closer to Martin Luther King’s dream. 
&#8220;Pat Brown and Dave Brown are the authors of Black and White: How the Left is Destroying the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Our Founding Fathers available Feb. 2nd&#8221;
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Though increasingly popular, antiracism remains a corrosive prescript that is only drawing us further apart. Worse, the extremist ideology has itself become a booming industry. Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi — the main founders of the so-called antiracism movement — are profiteering off this bogus notion. Their books continue to sell out. Expensive workshops and speaking engagements dominate calendars. Corporations are donating millions to the cause. And now many, many more are trying to capitalize on the spurious trend.
Robin DiAngelo has built an empire on anti-racism 
Beginning with her bestselling book, “White Fragility,” Robin DiAngelo continues to rake in millions of dollars as one of the most prominent advocates for antiracism. 
As a part of the services she offers, <a href="https://www.robindiangelo.com/services/">DiAngleo insists</a> that “racism is the foundation of Western society” and that “all white people benefit from the racial hierarchy, regardless of intentions.” 
Kyle Smith of the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-capitalist-genius-of-the-anti-racism-industry/">National Review</a> likens her to the “P.T. Barnum of our time,” a “televangelist” of sorts, and “a great American capitalist marketing genius, up there with the inventor of the pet rock or the people who figured out how to get rich by creating prestige brands of water.”
While Smith’s assessment of DiAngelo may verge on hyperbolic, the numbers certainly bear out. DiAngelo “was making up to $150,000 a month, on eight to ten gigs, even before the George Floyd killing…not counting book sales, which are prodigious.”
DiAngelo continues to make a killing in the emerging antiracism industry because her “business model is predicated on racism as unfixable,” according to Maureen Callahan of the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/06/peddling-the-idea-that-all-white-people-are-racist-for-profit/">New York Post</a>. DiAngelo’s book, “White Fragility” has already “made her a reported $2 million so far,” and she apparently charges “$30,000-$40,000 for a few hours” of diversity training, depending on the client.
<a href="https://reason.com/2020/08/14/uconn-will-pay-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-20000-to-train-school-administrators/">Reason</a> reported that the University of Connecticut paid DiAngelo $20,000 in June 2020 for a three-day seminar on antiracism and “that DiAngelo and other diversity lecturers often charge in the $10,000 to $15,000 dollar range for a few hours of work.” 
Even worse, the university did not hire DiAngelo for a public speaking engagement. She was hired to “train” school administrators in private “with the explicit expectation that they will put her recommendations into practice,” with little to no critical evaluation. 
As so many on the Left and in academia dogmatically yield to DiAngelo’s spurious notions on race and racism, it’s imperative that we remind ourselves that her absurd assessments are, in fact, racist. 
In a recent piece for <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/white-fragility">City Journal</a>, Coleman Hughes argues that DiAngelo’s work is “zealotry disguised as scholarship,” and treats people of color as “a homogenous mass of settled opinion with little, if any, diversity of thought — a kind of CRT-aligned hive mind.” 
Not only are whites monolithic in all manner of thought and experience, so too are blacks and other minorities, according to DiAngelo. Needless to say, such vapid generalizations are the hallmarks of bias and prejudice. 
Hughes continues: “The second unstated assumption in White Fragility — and this is where the book borders on actual racism — is that black people are emotionally immature and essentially child-like. Blacks, as portrayed in DiAngelo’s writing, can neither be expected to show maturity during disagreement nor to exercise emotional self-control of any kind. The hidden premise of the book is that blacks, not whites, are too fragile.”
John McWhorter, an esteemed black scholar and professor of linguistics at Columbia University, takes it up a notch and outright condemns DiAngelo’s work for “dehumanizing” and “infantilizing” black people in his piece for <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/">The Atlantic</a>. He labels “White Fragility” a “racist tract” that “diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us.”
“In 2020 — as opposed to 1920 — I neither need nor want anyone to muse on how whiteness privileges them over me.” McWhorter writes. “Nor do I need wider society to undergo teachings in how to be exquisitely sensitive about my feelings. I see no connection between DiAngelo’s brand of reeducation and vigorous, constructive activism in the real world on issues of import to the Black community. And I cannot imagine that any Black readers could willingly submit themselves to DiAngelo’s ideas while considering themselves adults of ordinary self-regard and strength. Few books about race have more openly infantilized Black people than this supposedly authoritative tome.”
In fact, many are now finding DiAngelo’s work comparable to the likes of white supremacist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke">David Duke</a>. While, ideologically, they may seem at odds with one another, Jonathan Chait of the <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html">New York Intelligencer</a> insists that their “extremes begin to functionally resemble each other despite their mutual antipathy” because DiAngelo and the antiracism industry “literally replicate anti-Black racism.”
Ibram X. Kendi and the Center for Antiracism Research
Unlike DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi can hide behind the curtains of academia to avoid growing criticism, aided further by virtue of being a person of color. As a result, his <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/the-center/founder-statement/">Center for Antiracism Research</a> at Boston University continues to receive millions of dollars to promote its specious claims. 
In August 2020, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/jack-dorsey-bu-center-for-antiracist-research-gift/">donated $10 million</a> to the Center for Antiracism Research. <a href="http://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/center-for-antiracist-research-rockefeller-foundation-grant/">The Rockefeller Foundation</a> awarded the center $1.5 million in October of 2020. <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/25/metro/bu-anti-racist-center-gets-15-million-gift-vertex-launch/">Vertex</a>, a biotech firm, matched the Rockefeller Foundation with a $1.5 million donation of its own. 
These are only a few of the notable donations, grants, and endowments the Center for Antiracism Research receives to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-the-truth-about-the-anti-racist-movement-and-its-founder-ibram-x-kendi">promote its unintellectual and divisive agenda</a> — ironic given just how storied a school Boston University is.
To be sure, Kendi’s work is — at best — anecdotal and filled with high emotion. Most often, it’s bereft of substance or sound argument. His claims certainly do not warrant an entire center for “antiracism research” at a prestigious university. 
In fact, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist">in his review of Kendi’s bestselling book</a>, “How to be an Antiracist,” Coleman Hughes titles his piece, “How to be an Anti-Intellectual,” reinforcing the argument that antiracism has little to no intellectual or academic merit whatsoever. 
Hughes contends that it’s nearly impossible to “interpret Kendi’s arguments as factual claims subject to empirical scrutiny or as diary entries to be accepted as personal truths,” and that “the book reads like a seeker’s memoir or a conversion story in the mold of Augustine’s Confessions” rather than a work supported by evidence and scholarship. Such a fundamental lack of academic rigor explains why “Kendi also cherry-picks his data” to exhaustion and is unable or unwilling to even cite his sources, according to Hughes. 
“Worse than the skewed approach to data in Kendi’s book are the factual errors. Citing an entire <a href="https://amzn.to/2pW5qTb">book</a> by Manning Marable (but no specific page), Kendi claims that in 1982, ‘[President Reagan] cut the safety net of federal welfare programs and Medicaid, sending more low-income Blacks into poverty.’ I could not find any data in Marable’s book showing that the black poverty rate rose during Reagan’s tenure. In fact, the opposite appears to be true, according to the Census Bureau’s historical poverty <a href="https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-people.html">tables</a>: the black poverty rate decreased for every age group between 1982 and the end of Reagan’s tenure in 1989.”
That such egregious errors litter Kendi’s work should be genuine cause for alarm given his meteoric rise in popularity and the millions of dollars his Center for Antiracism Research continues to receive. 
 The emerging, lucrative role of antiracism influencers
Now that the likes of DiAngelo and Kendi have shown that antiracism can be a lucrative venture, many more are seeking to capitalize on it. Various influencers on social media and elsewhere have positioned themselves as so-called “allies” in the antiracism cause in the hopes of profiting from the destructive trend in the form of online courses, workshops, and seminars. 
Chrissy Rutherford and Danielle Prescod have used their tremendous influence in the fashion world to further champion the works of Kendi and DiAngelo, and now seek to monetize it. 
The two women claim to have “extensive, first-hand experience encountering racism in the industry,” according to the <a href="https://cfda.com/news/chrissy-rutherford-and-danielle-prescod-launch-consulting-agency-2bg">Council of Fashion Designers of America</a>. 
Both women “experienced viral moments” on Instagram speaking out in support of the antiracism ethos, garnering upwards of 5 million views “thanks to the support of celebs like Ariana Grande.” 
Rutherford echoed Kendi almost word for word in her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAyf_7mHGPP/">Instagram post</a>: “It’s not enough anymore to just be like, ‘I have good intentions. I’m not racist.’ You need to actually take the time to educate yourselves to be antiracist. And that’s where white people are falling short right now,” she told her followers. “Antiracism is the name of the game right now. And that’s it.”  
Taking advantage of the moment, Rutherford and Prescod “had a mutual epiphany” regarding their burgeoning roles as “allies” in the antiracism movement: “We need to teach them — and charge them,” according to <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/a34763375/anti-racism-industry-profile/">Elle</a>.
The profile piece on the two fashion influencers in Elle goes on to boldly state that though “America’s economy is crumbling…the business of allyship is booming.”
Rutherford and Prescod have now formed 2BG (2 Black Girls), a “consulting agency…which aims to guide brands towards becoming more equitable and inclusive,” according to <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a33502374/chrissy-rutherford-danielle-prescod-2-black-girls/">Harper’s Bazaar</a>. 
Certainly, Rutherford and Prescod are not alone in their antiracism endeavors, particularly as a business venture.
Claiming to be a “highly sought-after anti-racism educator,” <a href="https://www.moniquemelton.com/shop-shine-classes">Monique Melton</a> offers a series of courses — ranging from $97 to $497 — on antiracism. She also offers a <a href="https://www.moniquemelton.com/21-challenge">Black Liberation 21 Day Challenge</a> “designed to build a daily practice of anti-racism,” as well as a “12-week interactive online course” for $3500. 
The tech-savvy are jumping on board as well. <a href="https://www.nudgetext.com/ally">The Nudge</a>, a messaging app that provides a series of encouraging reminders to its users, now offers one geared specifically toward antiracism.
“For $5,” <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/a34763375/anti-racism-industry-profile/">Elle</a> details, “participants could sign up for something called The Ally Nudge, a monthlong antiracism education program developed in collaboration with longtime diversity and inclusion consultant Akilah Cadet. During its first month, over 10,000 people signed up for The Ally Nudge in 1,700 cities.”
One can also subscribe to <a href="https://courses.checkyourprivilege.co/">Check Your Privilege</a>, “a shame-free space for white folx to show up learn and be held accountable on their anti-racism journey.” The site offers courses ranging from $20 to $1800. 
Lost in all the “allyship” and advocacy is just how deleterious the very notion of antiracism is fast becoming to our society. The likes of Kendi and DiAngelo have built influential empires that are infinitely more analogous to the pernicious effects of televangelism than the heroes of the Civil Rights era. Many now seek to follow in their dangerous wake and profit off of the cause to our collective detriment.  
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Ibram X Kendi

‘Antiracism’ Is A Booming Business

Ibram X. Kendi

Far from being the bastion of tolerance and inclusivity, for decades the progressive Left has weaponized such virtues for their own narrow ends. They have employed identity politics and cancel culture to silence, chastise, and even ruin any who dare trespass upon or challenge their narratives and schemes. It’s no wonder that, increasingly, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-trump-massively-exceeded-expectations-with-minority-voters-heres-how-he-did-it">minorities are moving toward conservatism.</a> As shown by the results of this past presidential election, it’s becoming clear that many are simply fed up with the bigotry and prejudice promoted by the legacy media and popular culture which drives various agendas of the Left. Here are six such examples. 
Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” is an exercise in dehumanization
The underlying premise of Robin DiAngelo’s work, “White Fragility,” is fundamentally grounded in a form of prejudice the Left refuses to acknowledge. It’s a monolithic indictment of an entire group of people premised exclusively in the superficialities of color and the inherently cultural and <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/">non-scientific notion</a> of “race.” As such, DiAngelo considers “all whites…complicit in racism by virtue of their skin color,” according to Chloé Valdary of <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/diversity-training">City Journal</a>. 
If DiAngelo’s vapid assessment and generalizations were ascribed to any other group of people, her work would be considered patently racist and any further discussions on the matter would be enthusiastically rejected. 
Unfortunately, DiAngelo has crafted her prejudice in such a deceptive manner that it disallows any legitimate critique of it, creating a “racial double bind” of sorts. “To argue” against DiAngelo “is racist” and only “proves that the label fits.”
Fortunately, John McWhorter’s critique of “White Fragility” in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/">The Atlantic</a> is the perfect antidote to DiAngelo’s intellectualized gibberish. As a lauded black scholar, McWhorter is automatically exempt from DiAngelo’s “racial double bind” by her very own logic, unless she wishes to exert her own “white privilege” upon McWhorter. 
McWhorter takes a less obvious but far more damning approach to “White Fragility.” He insists that DiAngelo’s work is “dehumanizing” and full of “condescension” toward people of color. He refers to it as a “racist tract” that “diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us.” 
“In 2020—as opposed to 1920—I neither need nor want anyone to muse on how whiteness privileges them over me,” McWhorter continues. “Nor do I need wider society to undergo teachings in how to be exquisitely sensitive about my feelings. I see no connection between DiAngelo’s brand of reeducation and vigorous, constructive activism in the real world on issues of import to the Black community. And I cannot imagine that any Black readers could willingly submit themselves to DiAngelo’s ideas while considering themselves adults of ordinary self-regard and strength. Few books about race have more openly infantilized Black people than this supposedly authoritative tome… Or simply dehumanized us.”
The unabashed racism of Karl Marx
Though the openly Marxist leaders of Black Lives Matter are quick to assail the Founding Fathers as “racists,” they choose to be willfully ignorant of the virulent racism that informed Marx. 
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors <a href="https://time.com/5171270/black-lives-matter-patrisse-cullors/">told Time</a> that her “intellectual influences” draw from “Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.” Cullers also claimed “in a…video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are ‘trained Marxists’ – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation,” according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/">The New York Post</a>.
In fact, the very paradigm that underpins much of the progressive Left in the form of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-left-is-rewriting-american-history-to-push-their-radical-agenda">Critical Theory is intrinsically Marxist</a>. Yet, his abject racism is presented as a mere afterthought, if ever mentioned at all.
“Marx is a hero to many labor union leaders and civil rights organizations,” noted scholar, <a href="https://www.newsherald.com/story/opinion/2020/08/16/many-marxists-dont-realize-their-hero-racist-and-anti-semite/3369024001/">Walter E. Williams</a>, recently wrote, “including leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, antifa and some Democratic Party leaders. It is easy to be a Marxist if you know little of his life…What most people do not know is that Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite.”
For further proof, one need only read the very words of Marx himself. Here’s an excerpt from <a href="http://hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.html">a letter to Friedrich Engels</a> rife with exhausting prejudice: 
“The Jewish n***** Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend,’ even though his interest and capital were guaranteed.”
Chelsea Handler “reminds” rapper 50 Cent that he’s black
Prior to the presidential election, Curtis Jackson — better known as 50 Cent — seemed to <a href="https://twitter.com/50cent/status/1318558550210301958?s=20">show support</a> for President Trump and his fiscal policies.
In response, comedian Chelsea Handler openly chastised the famous rapper’s decision, asking him “if he knew what race he was,” according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/27/chelsea-handler-bullied-50-cent-into-recanting-his-trump-support/">The New York Post</a>.
She then went on The Jimmy Fallon Show and stated that she “had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can’t vote for Donald Trump.” 
This is the same Chelsea Handler who states in her 2019 Netflix documentary entitled, “Hello Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea,” that she is “the beneficiary of white privilege” and hopes to find what her “responsibility is moving forward in the world that we live in today where race is concerned,” according to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjw78m/chelsea-handlers-new-netflix-special-proves-she-still-doesnt-understand-white-privilege">Vice</a>. 
Yet, here she is, disqualifying a black voice because of his very racial identity and the possibility that he dared to show support for President Trump. Handler’s accusation is very much the hallmark of the kind of arrogant racism that informs the Left.
The bias against Asian-American students at Ivy League schools
Ivy League schools such as Yale and Harvard — now seen as the epicenters of progressive thought — have allegedly been discriminating against Asian-American students for decades. In 2018, the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/harvard-discrimination-against-asian-american-students-obvious/">National Review</a> reported that “while the Asian-American undergraduate population at elite universities that do not take race into account in admissions has soared since the 1990s, it has hovered around 20 percent at Ivy League schools.” 
Such disparities in admissions led to a lawsuit from a “group called Students for Fair Admissions…alleging that [Harvard] engages in unconstitutional racial discrimination against Asians in its admissions process.”
Recently, a federal appeals court ruled against Students for Fair Admissions, though the case is likely to be heard by the Supreme Court, according to a recent piece by Zachary Evans of the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/appeals-court-rejects-lawsuit-alleging-anti-asian-discrimination-at-harvard/">National Review</a>.
“The case has been followed closely by supporters and opponents of race-based affirmative action policies,” Evans reports. “In the event that plaintiffs attempt to bring their suit before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Court agrees to hear arguments, plaintiffs will argue their case before a 6-3 conservative majority of justices on the bench.”
The Justice Department is also investigating “alleged discrimination against Asian-American and white applicants to Yale University” though much may change in the coming months with the transition to the Biden administration and its decidedly progressive bent. 
“Internalized racism” is “Uncle Tom 2.0”
“Internalized racism” is a somewhat novel term often bandied about by the Left toward minorities who refuse to tow the progressive line. Essentially, it’s an elaborate attempt to intellectualize the term, “Uncle Tom,” to appear more palatable to the general public. 
Instead of referring to the likes of Candace Owens or Larry Elders in such derisive and obviously racist terms, many on the Left argue that such conservative thinkers “suffer” from “internalized racism,” usually beyond their control. Such fatiguing condescension is pervasive among the Left, used as another method to silence the opposing views of many conservative minority voices. 
Worse, it removes all sense of agency from those accused of “internalized racism,” reducing them to subjugated automatons who — once again — must be “liberated” by the progressive Left. 
Donna K. Bivens of <a href="https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/What_is_Internalized_Racism.pdf">Racial Equity Tools</a> seeks to define “internalized racism” in the following manner: 
“As people of color are victimized by racism, we internalize it. That is, we develop ideas, beliefs, actions and behaviors that support or collude with racism. This internalized racism has its own systemic reality and its own negative consequences in the lives and communities of people of color. More than just a consequence of racism, then, internalized racism is a systemic oppression in reaction to racism that has a life of its own. In other words, just as there is a system in place that reinforces the power and expands the privilege of white people, there is a system in place that actively discourages and undermines the power of people and communities of color and mires us in our own oppression.” 
Bivens adds that “individuals, institutions and communities of color are often unconsciously and habitually rewarded for supporting white privilege” and that “internalized racism is a systemic oppression.”
This very definition of “internalized racism” is working with two specious assumptions presented as objective facts: Namely, that “white privilege” and “systemic racism” are realities, rather than nebulous constructs rooted in Critical Theory and other far Left paradigms. 
In effect, when the likes of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-the-truth-about-the-anti-racist-movement-and-its-founder-ibram-x-kendi">Ibram X. Kendi</a> and Robin DiAngelo employ the term “internalized racism,” it’s meant to silence any opposition or meaningful critique of their extremist views. 
“You ain’t Black” if you voted for Trump, according to Joe Biden
During his election campaign, Joe Biden insinuated that minorities who support Trump are betraying themselves and their very identity. In a May 2020 interview for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIFs_SryHI&amp;feature=emb_title">The Breakfast Club</a>, Biden stated in no uncertain terms that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” 
Regardless of the intent behind Biden’s comment, it remains patently racist. That such a reckless statement didn’t cause a greater uproar, particularly among minorities, only reinforces the idea that the legacy media is shaping and controlling the political narrative. Had President Trump made such a remark, for example, he would have been widely condemned as an open racist.
Despite the Left’s constant attempt to malign him as a racist, Trump actually improved his standing among minorities in the recent presidential election. This bodes well for the future of conservatism.
“If the poll is an accurate reflection of final results,” the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-won-one-quarter-of-non-white-voters-improving-on-2016-numbers-exit-poll/">National Review</a> reported, “Trump will have improved his support with black and Latino voters relative to 2016, when non-white voters comprised 21 percent of his vote share.”
Clearly, far more is at play as more and more minorities move toward conservatism, even in the wake of such meaningless accusations from the likes of Biden. 
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Chelsea Handler

The Prejudice And Racism Of ‘Progressives’: 6 Examples

Joe Biden

The University of Connecticut is paying &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; author Robin DiAngelo $20,000 to train its administrators in the finer points of anti-racism.
According to a copy of DiAngelo&#8217;s contract provided to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/uconn-to-pay-white-fragility-scholar-robin-diangelo-20000-for-antiracism-workshop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The College Fix</a>, DiAngelo will be offering a three-and-a-half-hour workshop to college administrators during their professional development retreat. Included are up to $2,000 in travel expenses.
According to her <a href="https://robindiangelo.com/about-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a>, DiAngelo holds a PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of Washington in Seattle and is currently an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education there. A recipient of two honorary doctorates, she claims her &#8220;area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.&#8221;
In a statement announcing DiAngelo&#8217;s lecture, as well as their &#8220;Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives,&#8221; UConn President Thomas Katsouleas commended UConn faculty and students who have engaged in protests in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, as well as participated &#8220;in innovative online and remote initiatives aimed at righting longstanding wrongs.&#8221;
Saying UConn &#8220;have committed ourselves to matching our words with concrete, real-world actions that touch on every unit and facet of the University,&#8221; Katsouleas continued:
<blockquote>One example of this commitment is a professional development retreat scheduled for the fall for 44 top leaders of the university with Robin DiAngelo, the antiracism scholar whose White Fragility has become a much-discussed book during this moment. This retreat will help University leadership come to grips with the critical questions of racism and inclusion, and to bring those insights back to our campuses.
Another example is a new University course on Anti-Black Racism, that will be offered starting in Fall 2020, following on the success of the Spring 2020 course launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While not a required course, it garnered the largest enrollment in the history of the University, and we expect and fully encourage the entire community to repeat that embrace of this new course.</blockquote>
DiAngelo&#8217;s bestselling book, &#8220;White Fragility: Why It&#8217;s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,&#8221; has obtained even more prominence in recent months and posits that &#8220;white fragility&#8221; is &#8220;a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive responses. These responses function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and maintain white control,&#8221; according to her <a href="https://robindiangelo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a>.
As <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/28/white-liberals-profit-privilege/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller News Foundation</a> reported, activists like DiAngelo earn hefty sums to lecture people on what they claim is the inherent racism of white people. She &#8220;charged the University of Kentucky $12,000, not counting travel expenses, housing accommodations and meals, for a two-hour &#8216;Racial Justice Keynote and breakout session&#8217; in March, according to a copy of the speaking contract obtained by the DCNF through public records requests,&#8221; DCNF discovered. DiAngelo also charges $320 per hour for phone calls.
DCNF noted that DiAngelo’s fee for the event at the University of Kentucky amounted to “more than a quarter of the annual median income for black families,” according to <a href="https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.pdf">U.S. Census data</a>.
Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nasa-invites-far-left-antiracism-professor-ibram-x-kendi-to-speak-to-workforce">NASA invited Ibram X. Kendi</a>, another anti-racism activist, to speak to its workforce. As The Daily Wire reported, an email sent to NASA employees invited them to an Aug. 12 Zoom lecture with Kendi, adding, &#8220;The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it — and then dismantle it,&#8221; writes professor Ibram X. Kendi. &#8220;That is the essence of anti-racism: the action that must follow both emotional and intellectual awareness of racism.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-the-only-good-people-in-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SHAPIRO: The Only Good People In History</a>

UConn Robin DiAngelo

UConn Reportedly Paying ‘White Fragility’ Author Robin DiAngelo $20,000 To Train Administrators In ‘Anti-Racism’

If you take black and white left-wing rhetoric seriously, blacks are not human beings like members of other races. They are first and foremost black; they are human beings defined before anything else by their color — not their humanity, their personality, their character, their mind or their heart. So much so that, according to white and black leftists, if you dissent from this racist view, you are now labelled racist.
The idiocy and inhumanity (literally) of this, the &#8220;progressive&#8221; view of black people, is easily demonstrated. Do any blacks see themselves first as black? When a black man, let&#8217;s call him James, looks into the mirror, does he first see a black person, or does he see James? When a white woman, let&#8217;s call her Karen (I&#8217;m playing with the left here), looks into the mirror, does she first see a white person, or does she see Karen? Does any human being first see his or her color?
Of course not. Yet, we are supposed to believe that the most important thing about a black individual is that he or she is black. And if we do not honor that fact — if we aim to be &#8220;colorblind&#8221; — then we are labelled racist.
This dehumanizing nonsense goes for racial truth these days. Thus, for example, we who are not black are supposed to acknowledge that we cannot possibly see the world the way a black person sees the world; we cannot possibly understand what it is like to be black. This is part of the dogma the left imposes on society through the media, through cancel culture (say that you are colorblind and you might lose your job and your reputation), and through racial sensitivity training seminars at colleges and in the workplace.
But all this does is promulgate the view that blacks are inherently different from all other people. As a result, the only way the left&#8217;s view of blacks differs from that of white supremacists is that the latter believe blacks are inherently inferior, whereas the left believes blacks are inherently different. But both the left and the white supremacists agree that race contains immutable characteristics.
Aside from its inherent racism, the progressive view of blacks is pablum. No one can see the world through another&#8217;s eyes. No one can fully understand what it is like to be any other human being. Do all whites understand how other whites see the world? One of the ongoing jokes in the public dialogues I have with Adam Carolla around the country is how much we think alike despite the fact that our backgrounds could hardly be more different.
Other than being white and male, we have essentially nothing in common. He is an atheist; I am a religious believer. He is Italian; I&#8217;m a Jew. He grew up poor and on food stamps in Los Angeles; I grew up in a solid middle-class home in Brooklyn. He had little formal education and never went to college; I grew up in a house of intellectuals and went to an Ivy League graduate school. Even though I cannot &#8220;relate&#8221; to his experience or he to mine, we are nevertheless very close because, in addition to that intangible thing that creates friendships, we have the same values.
On the other hand, I am a Jew, and George Soros is a Jew. Other than the same ethnic ancestry, we have absolutely nothing in common. I have far more in common with the black conservative intellectual Larry Elder. The notion that race or ethnicity bonds people is both stupid and racist.
The prominent black conservative John McWhorter, a Columbia professor, just wrote a review of &#8220;White Fragility,&#8221; the book the left most frequently recommends to explain America&#8217;s alleged systemic racism. The title? &#8220;The Dehumanizing Condescension of &#8216;White Fragility.'&#8221;
McWhorter writes:
&#8220;One of America&#8217;s favorite advice books of the moment is actually a racist tract.&#8221;
&#8220;The book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us.&#8221;
(I suspect it was The Atlantic&#8217;s choice to capitalize &#8220;black&#8221;; the syndicators of my own column once changed &#8220;black&#8221; to &#8220;Black&#8221; because they follow the Associated Press&#8217; rules for English.)
&#8220;&#8216;White Fragility&#8217; is the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult.&#8221;
&#8220;A corollary question is why Black people need to be treated the way DiAngelo assumes we do. The very assumption is deeply condescending to all proud Black people.&#8221;
&#8220;Few books about race have more openly infantilized Black people than this supposedly authoritative tome. Or simply dehumanized us.&#8221;
&#8220;Her answer to white fragility, in other words, entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people. The sad truth is that anyone falling under the sway of this blinkered, self-satisfied, punitive stunt of a primer has been taught, by a well-intentioned but tragically misguided pastor, how to be racist in a whole new way.&#8221;
McWhorter understands that to see blacks the way the white and black left want people to see them is to dehumanize blacks. If blacks are black before they are human — if no nonblacks can relate to blacks, disagree with blacks or want to see past color to the person&#8217;s heart — black-nonblack relations will have been set back a half-century.
Incredibly, beginning this coming year, thanks to progressive teachers, there will be mandatory reading of racist tracts like &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; to dehumanize blacks. That any black would see this as progress is worthy of tears.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters in the fall of 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: The Dehumanization Of Blacks

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