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Meet Your New Commissar - Black Studies star Ibram X. Kendi has plans for you.
Front Page Magazine ^ | Thu Jun 18, 2020 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 06/18/2020 7:20:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Among the byproducts of the worldwide mayhem and destruction carried out in solemn memory of career criminal George Floyd is that books on racism are selling almost as briskly as guns. As I write this, the #3 bestseller on Amazon is something called How to Be an Antiracist by one Ibram X. Kendi.

This book is Kendi’s third. The first was The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972 (2012); the second, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016), won the National Book Award, led to a Guggenheim Fellowship, and propelled Kendi, three years ago, from a low-level teaching job at the University of Florida to a position as full professor and head of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.

Next month, in a further move up the academic ladder, Kendi, age 37, will take up a plum post as director of the brand-new Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He’ll also publish Antiracist Baby, a “board book” for very young children (already #15 on Amazon) “that introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of anti-racism.”

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childrensbooks

1 posted on 06/18/2020 7:20:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s a mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world ....


2 posted on 06/18/2020 7:28:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Commies R Us.


3 posted on 06/18/2020 7:31:49 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: 11th_VA

4 posted on 06/18/2020 7:32:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Treating nonsense like this as a serious course of study only gives leftist blacks a strong sense of entitlement, and when they ultimately still fail to negotiate reality and the world, it encourages rage.

shame on Boston University.


5 posted on 06/18/2020 7:35:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Johnathon winters was fantastic, as they all were, in that movie.
I have it


6 posted on 06/18/2020 7:40:19 PM PDT by South Dakota (This is what I do. I drink and I know things)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Big Al would be proud. Never let a crisis go without pulling a paycheck from it.


7 posted on 06/18/2020 7:41:57 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: South Dakota

Johnathon winters was fantastic, as they all were, in that movie.


Some of it was filmed in Long Beach, Cal, my hometown. The local YMCA was used as the police station.


8 posted on 06/18/2020 7:51:22 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: PGR88

it does encourage rage. I have a lot rage now and I want to get this dance going. I’m sick of waiting for it. there’s a war going on and only one side is fighting. Time to man up and put a lot of BLM and antifa people in the hospital.

cops are being shot and killed. Civilians are being killed and beaten. Statues are being torn down, fires are being started. I don’t know where other folks come from but that’s a war. Or really a pillage because no one is fighting back.

I’m tired of talkin. There should be hundreds meeting BLM and antifa head on in the streets

the only stands I’ve seen taken are the Italians surrounding the Columbus statues and the folks guarding the Alamo.

If they want to do this then let’s do this. I’m sick of all the talk


9 posted on 06/18/2020 8:22:30 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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What YOU said.

Tired of the crap.


10 posted on 06/18/2020 8:28:32 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

American University, once a good school that JFK helped inaugurate (I went there for graduate school. At that time professors taught, everyone discussed issues, and only SDS brought limited violence to the campus. They took over the Dean’s Office and the fraternities/football players threw them out of it, often not opening the doors or windows).

For the last 45 years or so, it has become “Marxist Central on the Hill” (Massachusetts Avenue NW and the cross road).

Full of traitors, psychos and communists.


11 posted on 06/18/2020 9:03:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: hanamizu

“It’s under da big “W’’!


12 posted on 06/19/2020 3:18:03 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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