Apparently Ibram X. Kendi — or to give him his due, Doctor, Professor, all-round intellectual giant Ibram X. Kendi — managed to convince the administration at Boston University not to shut down the Center for Antiracist Research that he founded, and mismanaged so badly that some $30 million in donor funds disappeared without any discernible research results. Of course, any attempt to fire him for incompetence and malfeasance would have led to campus riots and charges of “racism” being flung about, which all university administrators are terrified of hearing. His job, no matter how bad his performance, is safe.
Now Kendi has released a Netflix documentary that explains to white people about the history of racism in America, based on his 2016 book Stamped From The Beginning, allowing them to discover just what is wrong with them: it’s whiteness itself. Whiteness, you see, prevents white people from connecting to humanity. Apparently, over the centuries, white people have all along not been part of that “humanity” that they are now supposed to connect to, as outsiders, and they can do so, Dr. Kendi points out, only if they recognize the primal curse of being white, and learn to distance themselves from their own “whiteness.” Black, yellow, and brown people are all part of humanity; someday whites can be, too, if only they can cease to be racists — as all white people, without exception, naturally are — which can happen only if they follow the prescriptions set out by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi in his 2019 book How To Be An Antiracist.
More on this preposterous clown can be found here: “Ibram X. Kendi Gets Applause for Race Remarks at Netflix Screening: ‘Whiteness Prevents White People from Connecting to Humanity,’” by David Ng, Breitbart,
He’s back. And this time he has a new Netflix documentary. Because of course he does.
“He” is Ibram X. Kendi, who is described by his collaborator on the Netflix film, Roger Ross Williams, thus: “Dr. Kendi is an incredible, thoughtful intellectual. He’s also the most banned author in America. He’s enemy No. 1 of right-wing conservatives. He gets death threats, he is really despised by them, but he’s just giving us facts on [sic] history.”
A fighter for truth, forsooth, who puts his life on the line, braving death threats to tell white people what is so very wrong with them, and what they must do if they wish to become “part of humanity.”
Ibram X. Kendi recently spoke at a special screening for his new Netflix doc “Stamped from the Beginning”, which is based on his 2019 book examining the history of anti-black racism. At the screening, Kendi received a round of applause after he called out white people.
“I don’t think white people worldwide have really reckoned with how much their own personal identity is shaped by constructions of whiteness, and how much that construction of whiteness prevents white people from connecting with humanity,” Kendi said.
“It’s whiteness that prevents that,” he later added.
“When you’re not able to see yourself in other human beings, that creates all sorts of problems. But not just societal problems, but personal problems, that I think hopefully this film and this work will liberate those folks from. It’s liberating all the way around. I think it will liberate all of us because we’ve all been told a lie about ourselves and other people.”
With that, the audience applauded Kendi….
I have no idea what any of this means. Only one thing is clear: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi loves the sound of his own voice, his own mountebank’s patter, delivered in a tone of deep thoughtfulness; his stuff reminds me of the sermons of that con man, Father Divine, who from the 1920s to the 1950s duped his fellow black Americans into sending him money because, after all, he was first a “messenger of God,” and then, after giving himself a promotion, he passed himself off to his devoted followers as God Himself. Anyone who dares to express doubts about Dr. Kendi’s intellect or his suspect relationship to the vast sums of money given to his scandal-ridden Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, of course, is not just a racist but, in attacking Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, he of the staggering intellect, shows himself to be the very worst kind of racist.
How should we help Dr. Kendi to become an “antiracist” himself? How about suggesting that he stop attacking all white people for their “whiteness” — about which they can do nothing to change, nor should they be made to feel guilty about the “unbearable whiteness of being” which, he claims, prevents them from connecting to the rest of humanity? Surely this is as offensive and racist a remark as anything coming from the KKK’s former Grand Wizard, David Duke. If we observe that Ibram X. Kendi is a profit-making con man, squeezing tens of millions of dollars out of institutional donors to his Center for Antiracist Research, is that the kind of thing only a white racist could say? Isn’t it, rather, the unpalatable truth? Just ask the African-Americans who were fired from their jobs at the Center for Antiracist Research by Ibram X. Kendi, what they think of their rapacious former boss.
Wellington says
He’s a racist, pure and simple. And Boston University supporting his racism is clearly complicit in all the reverse racism garbage going on in America today.
The entire DEI rot is reverse racism in thinly coded form. And who has pushed this malicious nonsense more than any other single person in contemporary America (N.B., there are indeed many culprits)? My vote here would go to the extremely destructive Barack Obama.
mgoldberg says
He’s unbearably fixed, and tenaciously stupid…. in that intellectual word salad DEI mode. And the ugly irony is, that any critical analysis of his ‘work’ is considered an unjustified attack. You know the others of the protofascistic bent- the Jihadists have the same idea… any criticism is an unjustifed attack upon their G-d, their leader, their prophet, their freedom to live. However they reserve the right, the privilege to projectile spew narratives as their hearts desire, upon any others who disagree with their ‘privilege’
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington and mgoldberg.
Mo says
Henry Rogers (I refuse to use his made up name) is one of the most despicable racists around. He would happily see all W people… shall we say… elsewhere. Must stay ahead of the censors these days.
100% correct on that wicked, racist, America hating, cop hating, baby murder supporting man, Obama. I do have to hand it to him. He wanted to “fundamentally transform” America. It’s not often a politician keeps a campaign promise. He sure did that. I do not recognize my country anymore.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Perfectly stated, my compliments.
somehistory says
Being White doesn’t do any such thing. But, stupidity keeps people such as he, making ignorant and stupid pronouncements. And evil, keeps people from stating Truth.
Evidently Boston is rife with racists. The mayor, m wu, throwing a party where only poc are invited. Her aide, a Black woman, invited Whites; and then told them it was a mistake and they were uninvited.
No “White Christmas” party for them.
They should try imagining a world without any White…people and otherwise.
No whites of the eyes, no whites in eggs, no clouds, no light, no snow, no white teeth, ….
gravenimage says
Appalling, Somehistory.
“Boston mayor under fire for ‘no whites’ Christmas party for city’s ‘Electeds of Color’”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/news/boston-mayor-under-fire-for-secret-no-whites-christmas-party/
NoTaqiyya says
The so-called Replacement theory doesn’t seems like a theory anymore.
The whole idea is to replace White people with POCs. Because the White man is the source of all that is wrong with the USA.
Or so the purveyors of “Critical Race Theory” who would have believe that only White people can be incorregible racists.
Question for those who believe in those obvious lies is the following,
Do you think you can replace an entire segment of American society and still have the same qualities that made this country so great?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s not a theory. Vivek pointed it out in the last debate, & Dana Bash had her own debate w/ him on the issue. Even while calling it a “dog-whistle”, she asked Vivek what was wrong if White people cease to be the majority in this country
Vivek’s answer was that skin color was irrelevant, but if the citizens of this country are to be replaced, we should at least be free to have an open discussion about it. Elsewhere in CNN, everybody is having a meltdown over someone who’s right now just 5% in the polls, and won’t be invited to the next 2 debates that CNN holds. (Incidentally, it’s independent of the RNC, & CNN can entertain anybody. I do hope that Vivek & Chris Christie have their own debate on FNC)
James Lincoln says
Absolutely appalling, somehistory.
Now, the correct approach to race:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
FYI says
allah sends people whose ‘faces are blackened’ to Hell {koran 3:106}
allah judges by complexion.
allah associates black folk with being slaves.They don’t get in to allah’s paradise because of that
{koran 3:107}:they don’t have the right color.
allah is really fussy.allah discriminates.
It is a really ,really ,really,awkward koranic teaching for the muslims to explain away…..
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam itself is terribly racist.
Of course, Ibram X. Kendi is Black Muslim–which is also increadibly racist, just in a slightly different way.
gravenimage says
Ibram X. Kendi: Whiteness Prevents White People From Connecting to Humanity
……………………………………………..
Just grotesque–imagine if someone said the same about Black or Brown people? There would be an uproar, for good reason.
And the idea that this racist trope is “antiracist” could not be more perverse.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Like muslims & Communists, Kendi’s (and Robin D’Angelo’s) types can be identified for projection. They accuse the targets of their hatred of being guilty of exactly what they are doing
The only long term solution to this is fewer people contributing to Ivy League schools, and fewer parents sending their kids there. Let these institutions just wither on the vine. Oh, & from the government side, stop issuing F1 visas to foreign students (and I say this as a former F1 student from decades ago)
tim gallagher says
People like this guy are full of so much bullshit. So this moronic buffoon is saying that because he has dark skin he is a wonderful human being who is full of the milk of human kindness, and yet he plainly hates all people who happen to have white skin. Yeah, that’s connecting with humanity in a pleasant way, you clown. You have got to braindead but full of hatred and hostility to believe such utter garbage. What an oxygen thief. And there are people who actually take this guy’s bullshit seriously!! Some parts of the human race appear to be getting more and more stupid and nasty by the minute.
Reziac says
No, they’ve always been this stupid and nasty, but until recently they couldn’t get an audience, so we didn’t know how stupid and nasty they are.
Haiti, 1804. Hatred of white people is nothing new.
tim gallagher says
Sounds about right, Reziac. For these creatures, such as the scumbag in this report, to have a bigger audience these days, which seems to be the case, there must be more nasty and stupid, and hate-filled people around who comprise his audience. The sort of idiotic bullshit that he is spewing out should be seen as complete bullshit by anyone with even half a brain. His ideas are so stupid that they should laughed out of existence. These are weird times in many ways. I’ll check on that Haiti 1804 situation. It is not something i’ve heard about..
Reziac says
Short form, in 1804 the blacks in Haiti killed all the whites and called it a “revolution”. Haiti has never recovered from this, and is still an utter shithole, while the other half of the island at least gets by (but guards its border).
The problem with the internet is that it lets the nasty, stupid, and crazy easily find each other and amplify their ideas out of all proportion. And because they’re so amplified, they get public traction, and a belief that they’re the inevitable majority. In fact they’re at most 6 or 7 percent of the population. But they’re loud and rude and obdurate, while we’re quiet and polite and try to find middle ground. Guess who wins the “discussion”.
Taleb is frequently his own “Intellectual yet Idiot” but he nailed it here … and this is exactly how Islam “wins” too:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.z5ry4bucq
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, Reziac. No doubt you are right about the effect of the internet.and who tends to win the “discussion”. The little that I see or hear about Haiti in the media, it certainly always looks like a backet case type of society if ever there was one. Always seems like a hopeless place. Being in Australia, Haiti very rarely is reported on, maybe when there is a hurricane or some outbreak of violence or political instability there.
somehistory says
Tim, when evil people can communicate with each other, “nothing will be impossible for them”
Genesis 11; 1 “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech….. 4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. ”
Now, with the internet and its translation apparatus, it’s as if people are once again “speaking the same language.”
tim gallagher says
somehistory, all I can say is that I hope things improve and some of these idiotic left wing students that we see demonstrating in favour of the Palestinians and expressing such toxic levels of hatred towards Israel somehow wake up to themselves, grow a brain (very unlikely I’d say) and begin to support the civilised people of Israel and ditch their support for the Muslims. Seeing people show support for the evil scum of the earth from hamas is a sickening sight.
gravenimage says
A lot of people assume that the 1804 revilution in Haiti was about overthrowing slavery. But one of the first thing the revolutionaries did there was reestablish slavery.
WPM says
Yes white people are not really human? Like Jews according to the guy with the bad hair cut and odd mustache in 1930s said Jews were not really human in Germany and that Jews were the cause of all Germany problems in the 1920s-1930s . Now white people are the cause of all problems of people of “color” in America 2023 ?? First step in taking away rights ,property and a place of free speech and exchange of ideas and living as equals . This conman ,this poverty pimp, this two bit tinpot boilplate little third grade class Marxist who could not do a good job doing informationals on late night local cable TV is getting big bucks from over educated idiots running todays colleges.
Reziac says
And the final step is genocide.
Transmaster says
Ibram X. Kendi has a PhD in Rectal Ventriloquism. If you see his lips moving you know he is talking out of his ass. I have Irish in my heritage. These professional racists seem to forget how my ancestors were treated. In 1845 a black slave sold for around $4,000 Dollars, that is about $100,000 in today Dollars. The Royal Navy had shut off the supply of slaves from Africa years before so there was no fresh slaves to be had. But because of the Irish Potato famine 100’s of 1000’s of Irish were emigrating to the US. They were a cheap inexhaustible labor force. You never used your valuable black slaves for anything really dangerous. You used the Irish, they worked cheap and when they were killed on the job they were easy to replace. In Louisiana the Irish were used to drain Malarial swamps, and dig canals. They died in their 1000’s from diseases and accident. Present day Irish in the US are not complaining about all of this abuse they settled in and made a life for themselves in the USA and carried on.
Wellington says
Your narration is eminently accurate. But it will not be taught because it goes against the DEI narrative that only whites are oppressors.
Reziac says
White people to Kendi: “Why would we want to ‘connect’ to someone who hates us?”
Dianne Mueller says
I wish I could impart some aged-induced wisdom to the Kendi worshippers; they might see the idiocy of the Kendi ploy to make himself the new Muhammad. Kendi has beautifully elevated himself to the position of a god, and, no doubt, has come to believe what spews from his mouth. Worse yet, there are intelligent people who have come to believe everything he says. Why? Because they’re lazy and find it easier to let Kendi do the work of being productive for them.
CogitoErgoSum says
This is an attempt to make white people seem less than human so it will be easier for the “humans” to kill the white “animals.” Something quite similar to what happened in Israel on Oct. 7 is very likely to happen in the U.S. and Europe in the near future – especially if white people continue with the self-hatred. It’s really sickening to see an entire race of people committing suicide … or should I call it assisted self-genocide? What a shame. I was very fortunate to have lived at a time when the U.S. was a great nation and 90% white but that’s all gone now and from what I’ve seen I don’t think the “humans” will be able to re-create anything like it in a million years. If feeling this way makes me a racist I don’t care at all because, as Kendi says, I’m also not “human” … and I thank God for that.
Reziac says
White people are somewhere between 6% and 8% of the world population (down from about 50% two hundred years ago). Of those, only about a third (3% of the world’s population) are of breeding age. We are very much an endangered minority.
And being a minority in a hostile space has always been a recipe for genocide.
James Lincoln says
Reziac says,
“Of those, only about a third (3% of the world’s population) are of breeding age. ”
And on top of that, the fertility rate is significantly below the 2.1 needed to keep the population from declining.
George says
Of course, the irony is there would be no Netflix without white people. No Boston University either.
gravenimage says
+1
Aad says
He must be a comedian.
Jayell1 says
‘Apparently Ibram X. Kendi — or to give him his due, Doctor, Professor, all-round intellectual giant Ibram X. Kendi …..’
Is that all? Surely you forgot ‘architect’, ‘brain surgeon’, ‘astrophysicist’, ‘world-renowned author and playwright’, ‘international pianoforte virtuoso’, ‘World Statesman’………..
Buzz says
The Difference Between Stupidity and Genius – Is That Genius Has Its Limits – Albert Einstein
WPM says
Yes Stupid is always entertaining in a dark humorist way ,when people who have common sense point it out .That is why people like Ibram X . Kendi AKA Henry Rogers cannot stand people picking apart his word salad nonsense lectures .It is why the Moslems go crazy when you mock Islam or show it lacks any consistence .Stupidity is or has to be enforce with threats ,lose your job, have yourself or love ones threaten with violence ,face fines ,face harassments , authorities enforce silence about pointing out stupid has no point to make. If the stupid ideas be it religion or pollical movement are not protected from being criticist they fails Islam is all three . Stupidity has no or little self-reflection ,it thinks lying including lying to ones self is a good thing , it thinks insane is sane ,it loves instability ,envy ,pigheaded pride , it cannot be fix like ignorance .A picture of Henry Rogers should be in a dictionary when you look up stupid in my humble opinion.
Scotsman48 says
Perhaps Mr X can be reminded WHO ended slavery in Britain and the USA, here is another clue for you all… it wasn’t a Negro.
Perhaps he can be informed where slavery still exists today… AFRICA…
Perhaps Mr X can start a boycott of all the things European Americans created and invented starting with Telephones,Televisions, Computers, Aircraft, Automobiles, and see how far he gets in life without using Facebook, Whatsapp,Twitter, Instagram and all the other social media websites he uses to spew his vile racist BS.
How would anybody listen or follow this prick who blames the Negro in the Projects to the result of White folks oppressing them even though they were built by White people and were very nice modern Apartments that the occupants turned into a hell on Earth.
Take a look at EVERY single black community from Sea to Shining Sea, now take a look at 99% of the countries across Africa…. See a pattern here ?.
If he wishes to blame somebody for the plight of the black American Communities then perhaps he should take a real good look in his Bathroom Mirror and stop teaching black folks they have no chance of a decent life in America even though he himself is very very rich and America has more Negro Millionaires and Billionaires than ANY country in the entire World but he wants the Negro to stay in their place to do what his suggests… What a grifter and the white folks that applaud this two bit hustler are amazingly stupid.
violet says
Well said Scotsman!
Back when England went in full swing to end the slave trade, African leaders wrote letters to Britain begging them not to stop the slave trade.
These useful idiots black people now teaming up with Muslim’s? Their ignorance would be laughable if not so dangerous. The Sahara slave trade was more appalling than slavery on any other land. Male blacks were castrated, cock & bull so they could be sold as eunichs to fetch a higher price for the Muslim traders. White sailors & military ended that trade.
If not for WHITE people the lucrative slave trade would definately still be in full swing & their ungrateful black asses would be slaves.
OLD GUY says
It might be the other way around that blackness prevents black people from connecting with humanity. Hate to tell this idiot, it’s all up to the individuals as to how they connect or react to others. And of course if you are a person of color, oriental or white you are going to have a preference for your ethnic group. Just like most sports fan from say Chicago or L.A. are fans of their home football teams or college grads support their alma mater. It’s human nature to support the group you belong to.
When I cheer my home teem I don’t just cheer for the whites or the blacks, I cheer for the whole team. Same way when I look at my community, I want everyone to prosper and work together for a better life. The problem is too many people want to tear the system down rather than build upon it to make it better. Tearing down is always easier than building, so they take the easy route. Let’s build up a better society not tear it down. Join or start a civic group to build a better neighborhood or community. Be involved in your childrens education. Respect your property and the property of others. Help those who can’t take care of themselves and encourage good work ethics. Hard working Americans built this country and us harding working American citizens of all colors and background can rebuild and improve this country if we work to help each other.
God Bless America and all of us lucky enough to be citizens of our small plot in the universe.
Ira Dotson says
I am an African American Christian pastor, and the ideas that Ibram X. Kendi presents are not new. The root of this ideology is found in the New Members Classes of the Nation of Islam. They declare that all evil was put into white people. As a result, they are selfish and unable to love anyone but themselves.
I would expect a professor to produce original thoughts and ideas instead of riding the back of the NOI. Unfortunately, this foolishness is rampant in the black community, and it is a portion of black ideology among blacks.
Sadly, Dr. Kendi cannot be called out for his plagiarism or his mismanagement of $30 million. He has taken a page from the BLM movement. They purported to advance the rights of blacks on a global scale and promote a just society. Instead, they stole approximately $48 million, bought numerous homes, and then disappeared into the night. Our problem is that Dr. Kendi will not disappear.
gravenimage says
All true, Ira.
Troybeam says
Manipulation of the system in his favor, gets rich quick uses rhetoric to keep it that way. A danger to society.
Violet says
Do the idiot a favour and ship him to Africa. Ibtam Henry Rogers (his real name) along with his fool supporters don’t have even one ounce of gratitude to WHITE PEOPLE who spent their blood and treasure to save their black arses from slavery! Would we do it again? Hmmm helping them seems to blow up in our faces. They turn against those who save their asses. Thsnds of black Cdn’s were saved by the British and brought here to escape southern slavery,. WHITE Canada was the destination place of the Underground Railway. More recently arriving here from Jamaica after Jamaican PM Michael Manly a socialist and Pierre Trudeau’s friend destroyed Jamaica’s economy. Now we have African’s flocking to Cda for a better life and their children, just like the rest, line up, protest against the very people, country and our values that made this the country they needed to find refuge in.
Dam I’m sick of them.
Davidka says
Many of the writers hit the nail on the head. Putting it in perspective, I. Kendi is just the latest in a long line of black race hustlers who got fortunes with this cynical tomfoolery. A few that come to mind: Father Divine, perhaps the most famous black of his time, but erased from history books and ethnic studies courses, Jesse Jackson, self-appointed king of the blacks,now immensely wealthy through extorting lucrative beer distribution franchises for his brother-in-law, Al Sharpton, noted for inciting rfiots that killed people, the Black Panthers, really a pack of thugs with a veneer of pretty speak, BLM, and on and on, and countless black politicians.