Professor Ibram X. Kendi has run into a spot of trouble. His fantastically funded Center for Antiracist Research – more than $43 million (£35 million) in the first two years alone – at Boston University is in financial meltdown. What happen to the $10 million (£8 million) from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey? Where are the donations from discount retailer TJ Maxx, food emporium Stop & Shop, and exercise empire Peleton? Why did the centre lay off almost all its staff last week?
Ibram X. Kendi has done as he promised. In 2020, freshly anointed as the director of Boston University’s new Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), Kendi announced his intention to “transform how racial research is done.” Previously, “research” had been understood to involve collecting data, analyzing trends and gathering new insights through the careful application of sustained thought. But these expectations were hallmarks of white supremacy. This week, as allegations of wanton mismanagement emerge from Kendi’s staff, it appears that what it means to do “racial research” has indeed been transformed: it now entails taking vast sums of other people’s money, then using it to produce almost nothing.
There’s real money in fake hate crimes.
The Italians have a classic aphorism: Se non è vero, è ben trovato. Even if it is not true, it is well conceived.
This has evidently become comedian Hasan Minhaj’s personal credo, as he has recently been caught fabricating incidents of racial discrimination (he’s a Muslim of Indian descent) for both his stand-up comedy bits and his former television show Patriot Act.
When Ibram Kendi was hired by Boston University in the summer of 2020, he founded the Center for Antiracist Research at his new school. The timing coincided with the death of George Floyd and, like BLM, Kendi’s research center quickly attracted millions of dollars in donations.
Last week, Peel district schools reportedly purged all library books written before 2008. But this incident is just one of many questionable moves made by schools across Ontario in recent years.
For example, in mid-summer 2022, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario began distributing new lesson plans that aimed to indoctrinate children into ‘white-privilege’ ideology. The lesson plans were to be taught in primary, junior and intermediate grades across the province and were an extension of the Federation’s existing and larger ‘White Privilege project.’
Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, claimed the reason no women or people of color appear in his upcoming book of interviews with rock stars was because “none of them were . . . articulate enough” on an “intellectual level.”
The Canadian Constitution Foundation announced in a press release on Thursday that it has been granted intervenor status in an appeal, approved a year ago but not yet scheduled, that will concern Ontario’s famous racist math test for teacher candidates. In 2018, as you might recall, the Ontario government, concerned about sluggish student math performance, introduced a new math proficiency test (MPT) that teachers would have to pass before being admitted to the profession.
Furious conservatives have begun boycotting Dove after the soap brand hired a Black Lives Matter activist notorious for destroying a white student’s life over a remark she later admitted she may have ‘misheard.’
Carole Thorpe, from Charlottesville in Virginia, shared a snap of three bars of Dove soap tossed in the trash Thursday on learning the Unilever-owned brand had joined forces with Zyahna Bryant to push a ‘fat liberation’ campaign.
On Friday’s Morning Edition, NPR lamented the “surge” in book bans across America. Apparently, democracy works best in America when educators get to assign left-wing propaganda about how America is deeply racist, and no one objects. The headline on their website:
1 parent is responsible for a book ban in North Carolina
But even their summary undercut that assertion: “In a North Carolina school district newly controlled by Republicans, it took just one parent’s complaint to remove a book from the curriculum.”
Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher said woke leftists share similarities with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) due to their complete insistence on always judging people by race instead of character.
“That used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan”
Joe Rogan and Bill Maher discuss how the Woke have hijacked the term liberal and their obsession with seeing race everywhere. pic.twitter.com/mogc5PuUqh
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) September 2, 2023
The case against right-wing racialism.
In recent years, I have devoted considerable time to exposing the radical Left’s politics of “whiteness,” which posits that white identity, culture, and power are irredeemably oppressive and must be “abolished” in favor of alternative modes of being. “Whiteness” represents the metaphysical essence of left-wing race politics: an irreducible force of evil, a master synonym for racism, oppression, inequality, and suffocating bourgeois norms; anything saturated with its properties can be automatically categorized and condemned. In practice, the politics of whiteness has translated into the demonization of European-Americans in primary school curricula, the performance of elaborate “white privilege” rituals in the workplace, and outright segregation in many public institutions. All of it is done to solve “the problem of whiteness.”
So we should appeal to the better angels of our nature for guidance and follow the natural rights theory of America’s founders.
Sounds great on paper.
The left will never buy into it.
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On the eve of the first Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 election, MSNBC’s Joy Reid decided to get in one last smear against Florida Republican governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis before he takes the stage on Wednesday evening. She did this by inviting the George Soros-backed prosecutor Monique Worrell who DeSantis fired to falsely tell her she lost her job because she’s black. In reality, she was fired for being soft on crime. It had absolutely nothing to do with her race or political party.
“Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain….”
Oklahoma! is a classic work of American musical theatre. Probably everyone has heard some of the music even if they haven’t seen the stage play or movie. Composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein immortalized the frontier conflict between “the cowman and the farmer” — but they left out a bigger, racially-charged conflict surrounding Oklahoma’s accession to statehood in 1907. This conflict included an inspiring Canadian dimension.
Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside the words: ‘Doesn’t represent real Londoners.’ Imagine if this right-leaning mayor had weird rules on ‘branding’, one of which was that images of young black families should not be used in mayor-related publicity because these people, with their dark skin, are not reflective of ‘our’ vision of London.
There would be uproar, possibly protests, and rightly so. It would be utterly unacceptable, vile actually, to racialise Londoners in this way; to treat black families as so morally lesser than white ones that they should never be shown in official PR bumpf. Being a Londonder has nothing to do with race. If you live here and work here and bring up your children here, you’re a Londonder.
Progressive insurance has been sued for ‘patently unlawful’ racism by offering $25,000 grants to help black-owned businesses buy vehicles — but barring white, Asian, Latino, and other entrepreneurs from applying.
The lawsuit was filed by the conservative group America First Legal (AFL) and others on behalf of Nathan Roberts, the owner of Ohio-based Freedom Truck Dispatch, who couldn’t apply because he’s white.
Progressive, which is known for its quirky adverts, did not answer DailyMail.com’s requests for comment. They have said the grants were there to help black-owned firms that have historically struggled to access capital.
