#Ibram Kendi

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[choppedcowboydinosaur]

So that's why he chose X. I thought it was just to imitate Malcom X. Wait is that where Malcom X got the idea for changing his name to X from? The Xhosa language?

If there’s one thing you should know about famous antiracist Ibram X Kendi, it’s that it’s not Ecks Kendi, it’s [click] Kendi, because it’s from isiXhosa language. You see, he decided that being named ‘Henry Rogers’ wasn’t Black enough for him, so he took his wife’s last name (of Kenyan origin) and took a Xhosa middle name.

In case you don’t know, the Xhosa inhabited the territory of contemporary South Africa. So, about 4700km from Kenya. It makes about as much sense as a WASP guy taking the name Håkan Fernández to celebrate his proud European heritage.

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today's the day... 1/20/25

it's inaugural day. i'm sure many of us are sitting on our phones, anxiously awaiting noon.

yesterday, i tried my best to ignore the articles flooding in about tr*mp's "victory rally", but there were so many that it was unavoidable. there are a million things i can talk about right now, things that disgusted me yesterday, things that disgust me today... but instead i want to chat about something more important.

us.

regardless of where you stand on the political tightrope, this upcoming administration is going to affect you. working class, lqbtqia+, woman, immigrant, bipoc, disabled. veteran, even. we're all going to face hardship unimaginable in our lifetimes. the oligarch is moving inside the white house today. there is no avoiding it when it has it's own office.

this isn't a time to nestle your fear, this is a time to feed your awareness. things are going to happen quickly and swiftly. this isn't the 1930's where people were tracked down solely by tip-off's and good luck. we're all immediately trackable. everything we say and do is coursing through the framework of our phones and laptops, even this blog.

we need to stay focused. study. don't believe everything you hear until you've researched it. conservative media, liberal media, moderate media. it's our job to digest it all and find the truth, because they will all be biased. they will all hide something.

this is one of my favorite books i own, especially this graphic version. it tells us step-by-step what to expect in the uprising of fascism in the government; what we can do to stay safe and present. my favorite chapter is 11.

investigate.

"figure things out for yourself. spend more time with long articles. subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). take responsibility for what you communicate with others." pg. 64.

i am so thankful for the environment my parents raised me in. we didn't have much, but they were adamant about teaching their kids to use critical thinking before coming to a conclusion. they taught us to always trust a pattern, even when it looks like a wild card too-good-to-be-true enters the game. be skeptical. ask questions.

i won't drone on any further. but please, please, please- investigate everything you hear for yourself. do not take what you hear as fact until you've seen it peer reviewed, sourced, and/or fact-checked across several trustworthy news outlets. fox and cnn are not news sources i would ever categorize as trustworthy. go forth with that, as you will.

other incredible books that will help us during this time:

"how to be an antiracist" by ibram x. kendi

"gay berlin" by robert beachy

"strongmen: mussolini to the present" by ruth ben-ghiat

"who's afraid of gender?" by judith butler

"it can't happen here" by sinclair lewis

"how fascism works" by jason stanley

"white fragility" by robin diangelo

and many, many more, upon request.

stay safe. organize. be critical, and let your anger be your guide.

[kharmii]

*eats popcorn while reading the recent post*

Love how once they have no arguments left go back to insulting and name-calling instead of wanting to talk.

Shows they either don't know how to respond or know they're in the wrong and go back to name calling to save their face.

Honestly I welcome the changes in the US and I hope other countries follow suit. This insanity has to stop. This pandering to a small but obnoxiously vocal minority has to stop.

The US elections this year made Amish people go out and vote. From what I've heard they don't give a fuck about elections usually but they are so pissed off by the left they used their voices and went voting.

Everyone is fed up and tired of this leftist bullshit and being dismissed as everything in the book if you disagree. Everyone is fed up with the indoctrination that is happening everywhere. Everyone is just fed up with being pushed around by crybabies who complain about everything in the world but can't understand that its all their fault if their life sucks.

Yet I can only feel pity for people who are nothing but a product of parroting leftist propaganda all day and night alienating everyone who cared about them. Leaving only others who are parroting the same bs in a giant echo chamber that distorts their worldview and destroys their minds...

Hope one day they wake up and see what they did.

The Amish people want to be left alone to live how they want to live. They got caught under the ever widening umbrella of government regulation and the surveillance state. That's why they came out and voted. It was over the raw milk issue.

There's an increasing demand for milk right out of the cow because store bought milk is full of additives. The government doesn't want the people to have that option, even though our food supply is being poisoned with chemicals that are illegal in most other countries. Another Trump promise is to get flouride out of the drinking water and lab produced oils and sweeteners out of the food supply.

The Amish people voting goes to show how leftist harpies have to infiltrate every society forcing their world views down everybody's throats. They can't leave people alone to live their lives how they want. This is why we fought for independence back in the 1700's. People wanted to govern their own way and not have some distant government across the sea ruling them. This popular image expresses that sentiment:

We won a local victory. The colleges churn out brainwashed teachers who will move into conservative towns with the intent to push their Fail Ideology. In our high school for a while, we had this nasty feminist bitch principal surrounded by a cabal of nasty feminist bitch teachers. They forced the kids to read that Ibram X Kendi book Stamped, which was an anti-white racism guilt trip. That (whacko Twitter personality) guy was later found out to be a C-student borderline retard con artist only accepted to a mediocre college because of DEI.

Those women would target boys for disciplinary action while girls got away with murder. One boy got kicked out of sports for a year because of a social media post on a locked account. He made light of the George Floyd incident by posting a photo of himself with his foot on another guy's head. There are countless examples of that, -parents complained like crazy- and eventually the school refused to renew her contract forcing her out.

-So this election, she ran for the school board. Another person ran for the position on a platform of running against her and her left-wing antics. She lost after a bitter fight where her clique of feminists would go around town taking down the opposition's political signs. Damn right teenage boys should be able to make jokes on social media without having their lives ruined! Cancel culture won't age well. People like George Floyd are trash who died like trash. We don't owe them anything.

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It's not so long ago that compulsive liars and race-grifters like Kendi could get away with being fact-checked somewhere down in the depths of the replies where few people would see, and it would rely on people retweeting to surface the refutation upwards. He could propagate whatever manufactured victimhood narrative he wanted, and he could get away with it for the most part.

Community Notes has changed everything.

It's interesting that subjective reality - "my truth" - and "equity" - unequal treatment to create desired outcomes - have become so entrenched that something like, "apply the rules on cheating consistently," is being called a "weapon."

Claudine Gay is entirely responsible for her own downfall.

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Douglas Murray - Ibram X Kendi Is A Race Hustler

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[arinzechukwuture]

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D., as the director of the newly established Howard University Institute for Advanced Study.

The institute will be dedicated to interdisciplinary study advancing research of importance to the global African Diaspora, including inquiry to race, technology, racism, climate change, and disparities.

Dr. Kendi most recently served as the founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has authored 16 books, was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, and has been awarded a MacArther “Genius Grant” Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Welcome to the Howard University family!

[alex-just-vibing]

there was a one dollar book sale (woah) at a bookstore nearby the other day and i got eleven new books (for like half the price of one new one regularly lol), all non fiction.

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Tagged by: Fave of faves @bethanyactually--and usually I save every post I'm tagged in to (at least theoretically) do later, but since I actually have returned to watching and listening to things lately, I'm gonna do this one right now.

Last song: Like You Do by Josh Ramsay. And Christian Kane's cover of Fast Car, both of which were recced to me by Leander, who knew I should hear them. But also, while I haven't listened to any of it since Tuesday, I woke up with the Daisy Jones and The Six soundtrack playing in my head...just like it has been ever since I originally started watching the series. Today it's mostly been The River featuring Simone, Regret Me, and More Fun To Miss. I know enough of the lyrics now for the soundtrack to be my constant mental radio as I go about my day.

Currently watching: Nancy Drew S2 (I'm 4 episodes in and enjoying it a lot), Schmigadoon S2 (I've seen half of it and it's still fantastic and I'm bummed I only have 3 episodes to go) and today I'm about to start my Good Omens rewatch so I can head into the new season full of S1 feels. Because my best friend is literally the best, I'm also partly through a DJATS rewatch with Leander seeing it for the first time--making that my favorite thing I am watching right now.

Currently reading: Nightwork by Nora Roberts (I'm about halfway through it and have been borrowing it from @actuallylukedanes forever and I feel very bad about that! I will finish it! I'm also partly through How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, also on loan from Leander. And before that, I was (and remain) partway through literally 20 other ebooks of all kinds--most recently Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig. There's a ton of great nonfiction that I already have on my tablet and know I'll enjoy cuz I'm that kind of geek...I just rarely read anymore because reading time is time I'm not spending with my millions of other hobbies.

Current obsession: As referenced above, Daisy Jones and The Six, which I am so so happy Leander is watching with me--both helping me get it out of my system a little and letting me indulge even more in my love of it. After we watched it on Wednesday, I was able to listen to something that wasn't the soundtrack for the first time, so I just may be able to dial this obsession down to manageable levels at some point. But GUYS IT'S SO GOOD. I want to gif it as soon as I get back to Photoshop and I kind of want to read the book, when I didn't before. I just want to burrow into the world and live there, and I haven't felt that way in quite a while, about anything. (It's made it harder to engage with other things, which is why I originally was going to add Ted Lasso's completed final season to my week along with Nancy Drew and Schmigadoon, but ended up not doing so because my head and heart are full of DJATS right now. But I missed this feeling, too, so I'm happy to be in love again.)

No-pressure tagging: @actuallylukedanes, @jicklet, @jakeperalta, @beturass, @hondagirll, @mythologicalmango, @dollsome-does-tumblr, @anextrapart, @sentichefuoripiove, @robbiedaymonds and anybody else who wants to do this.

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By: Matt Lamb

Published: Jan 31, 2025

ANALYSIS: Kendi’s center has significantly scaled back following massing spending with little results. He will now create something similar at Howard University

Professor Ibram Kendi and Boston University will shut down the Center for Antiracist Research on June 30 as the “antiracism” proponent moves to Howard University.

Kendi will start a similar center at the Washington, D.C. historically black university, focused on “advancing research of importance to the global African Diaspora, including inquiry into race, technology, racism, climate change, and disparities.”

The “Institute for Advanced Study” will be “[b]uilt on the highest standards of intellectual inquiry,” according to a news release from Howard.

However, Kendi’s Boston U. center failed to deliver on many promises. The university and center ignored at least twenty requests for comment from The College Fix about productivity during that time. A 2024 analysis from The Fix found the center had been largely quiet in the past year. The scaled back version, following overspending by Kendi, produced little. The university investigated the center and cleared Kendi of any wrongdoing.

The center started off with strong fundraising, including $10 million from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. It also had the benefit of being started in summer 2020, as Black Lives Matter grew in prominence and corporations and governments focused on “antiracism” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles. Kendi himself did quite well during that time, hauling in $35,000 for 60-minute speeches. A 2021 analysis estimated Kendi had made around $300,000 from speaking gigs, an amount that has likely eclipsed half a million dollars by now.

Following layoffs of about half the staff, which disproportionately harmed racial minorities and thus violated the principles of “antiracism,” Kendi moved to focusing on fellowships.

But The Fix spoke to one “research affiliate” who did not even know she had been accepted for a position until being contacted for comment on what the role entailed.

Boston U. heralded some of Kendi’s work, including the “COVID Racial Data Tracker.” But Kendi and his team did little on that project – rather a team of volunteers from The Atlantic did the work and the publication shut down new data collection in March 2021.

His center existed at Boston U. for five years, after he left a similar project at American University. For the last two years, representing 40 percent of his time there, the center did practically nothing, while Kendi wrote zero academic papers at least during the first three years he was there.

As The Fix reported in Sep. 2024:

 The latest post on the Antiracist Tech Initiative blog was from August 2023, as was the most recent update from the Racial Data Lab. On a page titled “What We’re Working On,” nothing is listed from this year. No policy reports or convenings have been published since 2022, and no amicus briefs have been submitted by the center since 2023. The Model Legislation Project also has not been updated this year. The Antiracist Legal Education Project advertises an event from September 2023 as “upcoming,” while the annual Antiracist Book Festival was not held in 2023 or 2024. A Vertex Symposium, which is also described as an annual event, has not occurred since 2022.

Kendi was quick to accuse his critics of racism when questions were raised about his leadership, even though some of them were racial minorities, such as scholar Saida Grundy.

“I have been disappointed in journalists who report criticisms of a Black leader without asking for evidence to substantiate those allegations,” he told The Daily Free Press. “Racist ideas about a corrupt Black leader running a dysfunctional or toxic organization are so ingrained that reporters don’t feel the need for evidence.”

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Of course he did. He has no other cards to play because he's a full-blown fraud.

"If you hold me responsible for all the things I did, you're a racist." This is how liars and ideologues like him deflect.

But it would be racist not to hold him accountable, as we do other leaders and managers. There's nothing more racist than saying, well, since you're black we should hold you to a lower standard because we just can't expect that much from you.

What I will say is that Howard University deserves everything it's going to get.

[uncle-fruity]

I highly recommend checking out Ibram X Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist. I think his point that antiracism is an act moreso than an identity can help. Like, even if you've done racist things in the past (and probably all white people have, regardless of how careful we are not to), that does not mean you can't strive to be antiracist now. Antiracism isn't something that is inherent to your identity, it is learned behavior (as is racism, fwiw). Antiracism is reinforced when we take antiracist actions, hold ourselves accountable for our racist biases, and examine how our behaviors affect non-white folks & then work to change harmful patterns of thought & behavior.

It's been a couple years since I've read the book, but I think everyone should check it out if you can. I really appreciate Dr. Kendi's work and I bet y'all would find it beneficial in your efforts to embrace antiracism & learn how to be a better ally.

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antiracist

Forbidden Word: antiracist ¹anti n : one who is opposed ²anti prep : opposed to : AGAINST anti- prefix 1 a : of the same kind but situated opposite, exerting energy in the opposite direction, or pursuing an opposite policy <anticlinal> b : one that is opposite in kind to <anticlimax>  2 a : opposing or hostile to in opinion, sympathy, or practice <anti-Semite>  b : opposing in effect or activity…