{"id":138398,"date":"2022-04-20T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=138398"},"modified":"2022-04-20T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:08:32","slug":"the-racist-screed-of-the-father-of-anti-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/the-racist-screed-of-the-father-of-anti-racism","title":{"rendered":"The racist screed of the father of \u201canti-racism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Boston University Professor Ibram Kandi is a man who has made a fortune out of telling people that America is and always has been a racist country, that systemic racism dominate the land, and that all whites are racist whether they know it or not. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/june\/ibram-x-kendi-definition-of-antiracist.html\">believes<\/a> that to support color-blind and merit-based policies makes you a racist and that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cthe only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination&#8230;The most threatening racist movement is not the alt right\u2019s unlikely drive for a White ethnostate but the regular American\u2019s drive for a \u201crace-neutral\u201d one.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Logic has never been a strong point of the woke.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an article entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/04\/white-supremacy-grooming-in-republican-party\/629585\/\">\u201cThe Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About: White-supremacist ideology is harmful to all, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth\u201d<\/a> in the April 16, 2022, edition of the woke <em>Atlantic <\/em>magazine, Kandi continues his tirade against white people and vilifies the Republican Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kandi begins his article by attacking the notion, widely touted after Republican Glenn Yougnkin won the Virginia\u2019s governor race by attacking critical race theory, that the Republican Party is \u201cthe party of parents.\u201d He then cites commentators who hold that in reality the GOP is the \u201cthe party of white parents\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWilliam Saletan at&nbsp;<em>Slate<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/11\/polls-critical-race-theory-virginia-election.html\">concluded<\/a>, \u2018When Republicans talk about a parental backlash against CRT, they\u2019re not talking about all parents. They\u2019re talking about white parents.\u2019 Michelle Ruiz&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/gop-party-of-parents\">summed<\/a>&nbsp;up in&nbsp;<em>Vogue<\/em>&nbsp;what has since emerged as the near consensus: \u2018The GOP doesn\u2019t want to be the party of parents; it wants to cement itself as the party of&nbsp;<em>white<\/em>&nbsp;parents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But Kendi holds that even this characterization is false. Why? He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cEvery great myth is built on a foundational assumption, a fallacy widely assumed to be true. The foundational assumption of this great myth is that Republican politicians care about white children. But if they did, then they would not be ignoring or downplaying or defending or bolstering the principal racial threat facing white youth today. And I am not talking about critical race theory, which Republican propagandists have quite intentionally redefined, as one&nbsp;admitted, remaking it into a threat, and obscuring the real threat.\u201d (Not sure how Republicans can be &#8220;ignoring&#8221; and &#8220;downplaying&#8221; a threat while simultaneously &#8220;bolstering&#8221; it. Not sure if Kendi took logic classes in school&#8230;.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this \u201creal\u201d threat? Is it a public education system that is failing them, as evidenced by America&#8217;s consistently low rankings among industrialized countries in regard to student educational achievement? Is it violence in our public schools? Is it our country&#8217;s very large high school drop out rate? Is it alcohol and drug use among students? Of course not. Rather, it is the indoctrination of white children in white supremacy. Kendi writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhat are white children being indoctrinated with? What is making them uncomfortable? What is causing them to hate? White-supremacist ideology<em>:<\/em>&nbsp;the toxic blend of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic ideas that is harmful to all minds, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth. Which group is the prime target of white supremacists? White youth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kendi then attacks Republican politicians like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who mistakenly think that the great threat facing students today is schools indoctrinating children in the radical LGBT agenda:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cInstead of focusing on this very real threat, Republican politicians\u2014to justify Florida\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 law\u2014have cited QAnon conspiracy theories about public schools being&nbsp;overrun&nbsp;by child predators who are \u2018grooming\u2019 children to be gay. A spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis&nbsp;reframed&nbsp;the \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 bill as an \u2018anti-grooming\u2019 bill. But if QAnon Republicans really cared about white children, then they would be worried about white-supremacist grooming. This is the grooming that parents of all children should be worried about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And what does \u201cgrooming\u201d white kids in white supremacy lead to? Kendi declares:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cGrooming white kids\u2014usually males\u2014in white supremacy can involve inciting them to commit acts of physical and verbal violence. Against kids of color. Against girls. Against Jewish kids. Against Muslim kids. Against trans kids. Against queer kids. Against other white kids. Defending kids against white-supremacist grooming keeps all kids safe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Republican Party is to blame:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cRepublicans disproportionately&nbsp;represent&nbsp;white Americans. And instead of countering white supremacy by supporting anti-racist education, Republican officials have turned white parental attention away from that threat, rallying their support in order to ban what can protect their kids from white supremacy. The GOP crusade against anti-racist education has left impressionable white kids unprotected from the threat of white supremacists sliding into their feeds, chat rooms, games, DMs\u2014into their minds. And Republican politicians are doing all of this while insisting that they care about white children, while dog-whistling that they are the party of white parents.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And why is the GOP fighting so hard against critical race theory? Kendi declares:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe Republican attacks on what they call \u2018critical race theory\u2019 aren\u2019t about protecting white kids, or any kids at all. The attacks are intended to deceive, aggrieve, and mobilize enough white donors and voters to win contested elections this year and beyond. Republican operatives have been most likely to organize \u2018don\u2019t say race\u2019 campaigns in schools located in&nbsp;swing districts, particularly where a majority-white school population is rapidly diversifying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So how should one think of the Republican Party? He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe Republican Party is not the party of parents raising white kids. The Republican Party is not the party of parents raising girls, raising trans kids, raising kids of color, raising queer kids, raising poor kids, raising immigrant kids. The Republican Party is making it harder for all of these kids to learn about themselves and their histories. The Republican Party is stripping parents and educators of their collective ability to protect vulnerable children from being indoctrinated by\u2014or victimized by\u2014the scourge of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the concluding line of his article, Kendi finally gets to his point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThis Republican Party is not the party of any group of parents, but the party of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You just knew this line was coming. You see, the argument of every woke ideologue against anyone who does not agree with them comes down to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cYes, but you are racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, and a Nazi.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So there you have it. The father of \u201canti-racism\u201d attacks the Republican Party for not combatting white supremacy because it is the party of white supremacy. How original. And to think this racist ideologue has made millions pitting one group against another in our country. Let\u2019s hope that more people see through the garbage Kendi churns out on a regular basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University Professor Ibram Kandi is a man who has made a fortune out of telling people that America is and always has been a racist country, that systemic racism dominate the land, and that all whites are racist whether they know it or not. 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