Another race-baiting grifter exposed; $43 million gone

originally posted by: ColeYounger
In the hallowed halls of academia, this is not called 'stealing' or 'embezzlement'. It's called 'financial mismanagement'.
In 2013, Henry Rogers changed his name to Ibram Xolani Kendi, became a self-proclaimed expert on racism, and wrote a series of crappy books that became New-York Times bestsellers. He became a hero in academia and was promoted endlessly by white, liberal, useful idiots. He was declared a genius. The liberal woke army couldn't bestow the honors, awards, and accolades fast enough. He won The National Book Award. He was given a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was given a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. And on it goes...


In June of 2020, Boston University appointed him the director of the "Center for Antiracist Research". Then the money came. Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder, kicked it off with a $10 million donation. Then the woke corporations started throwing money at Kendi. He put up a dedicated website for donations.


Three years and $43 million later, racism still exists, and Boston U is launcing an 'inquiry'.

Matt walsh tells the story in greater detail:

Corruption doesn’t know race.

Dr. Glen Loury destroyed him... called Ibram an empty suit lightweight.

For those that don't know, Glen is an accomplished economist. In fact, I think he was the youngest economist to receive tenure at Harvard. And first black to do so...

I’d rather be Woke — than Stuck — living in an ideology that does not progress.

Progressing to what exactly, Annie?

Gov't. oversight into every thought one has? Sounds remarkably like a book I've read...

RightThought. RightSpeak. Anything other than that is...

...punished.

This guy is a con-man. Nothing more, nothing less.

a reply to: ColeYounger

‘Self-proclaimed expert,’ eh?

Education & Academic Appointments


• Florida A&M University, 2006: dual B.S. degrees in African-American Studies and Magazine Production
  
• Temple University, 2007: M.A. in African-American Studies
  
• Temple University, 2010: Ph.D. in African-American Studies. Thesis title: ‘The Black Campus Movement: An Afrocentric Narrative History of the Struggle to Diversify Higher Education, 1965-1972.’
  
• 2008-2012: assistant professor of history, Dept. of Africana and Latino Studies (Dept of History), State University of New York
  
• 2012-2015: assistant professor of Africana Studies, Dept. of Africana Studies/Dept. of history at University at Albany, SUNY
  
• 2015-2017: assistant professor, Dept. of History (African-American Studies programme)
  
• 2017-2020: professor of history and international relations at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and School of International Service (SIS) at American University in Washington
  
• 2017: founder & executive director, Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University.
  
• June 2020-present: professor of history, Boston University and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
  
• 2020–2021 academic year: Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
  
  Honours & Awards
  
  
• 2016: National Book Award for Nonfiction: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America — National Book Foundation.
  
• 2019: Guggenheim Fellowship, U.S. History: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  
• 2020: Frances B. Cashin Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
  
• 2021: MacArthur Fellowship
  
• 2021: Museum of African American History Living Legends award − The Garrison Silver Cup.

Could you please post your qualifications for judging this man’s expertise?

originally posted by: seagull

I’d rather be Woke — than Stuck — living in an ideology that does not progress.

Progressing to what exactly, Annie?

Gov't. oversight into every thought one has? Sounds remarkably like a book I've read...

RightThought. RightSpeak. Anything other than that is...

...punished.

This guy is a con-man. Nothing more, nothing less.

Progressing in accepting all people for one thing.

Recognizing a con-man? That’s a joke, right?

I choose to see where progress is going and how it best serves me.

I don’t hold on to deadweight.

originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: ColeYounger

‘Self-proclaimed expert,’ eh?

Education & Academic Appointments


• Florida A&M University, 2006: dual B.S. degrees in African-American Studies and Magazine Production
  
• Temple University, 2007: M.A. in African-American Studies
  
• Temple University, 2010: Ph.D. in African-American Studies. Thesis title: ‘The Black Campus Movement: An Afrocentric Narrative History of the Struggle to Diversify Higher Education, 1965-1972.’
  
• 2008-2012: assistant professor of history, Dept. of Africana and Latino Studies (Dept of History), State University of New York
  
• 2012-2015: assistant professor of Africana Studies, Dept. of Africana Studies/Dept. of history at University at Albany, SUNY
  
• 2015-2017: assistant professor, Dept. of History (African-American Studies programme)
  
• 2017-2020: professor of history and international relations at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and School of International Service (SIS) at American University in Washington
  
• 2017: founder & executive director, Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University.
  
• June 2020-present: professor of history, Boston University and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
  
• 2020–2021 academic year: Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
  
  Honours & Awards
  
  
• 2016: National Book Award for Nonfiction: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America — National Book Foundation.
  
• 2019: Guggenheim Fellowship, U.S. History: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  
• 2020: Frances B. Cashin Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
  
• 2021: MacArthur Fellowship
  
• 2021: Museum of African American History Living Legends award − The Garrison Silver Cup.

Could you please post your qualifications for judging this man’s expertise?

You can make anyone sound like they are accomplished or an expert, especially to those that are not familiar with academics or a particular field.

It is like how Realtors will often put on their business card "Million Dollar Producer!" to make it seem like they've sold a lot of homes. The reality is you can be a million-dollar producer selling like 2 houses in many areas. Hardly makes someone an expert in their field. However, the lay person often sees "Million Dollar" and makes a faulty assumption about qualifications.

Kendi is an intellectual lightweight.

a reply to: Astyanax

‘Self-proclaimed expert,’ eh?

Yes, he's a self-proclaimed expert on racism. But he clearly is not an expert. I actually read portions of his books. Just portions, because I couldn't possibly subject myself to reading the entire books. It is literally the worst writing I have ever seen by someone with advanced degrees. It's incomprehensible babble. Watch the video that Edumakated posted. Dr. Glen Loury sums it up perfectly.

Could you please post your qualifications for judging this man’s expertise?

My qualifications are that I'm able to think critically, and I can read and comprehend above a 6th grade level.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a PhD will thereby cease to be a moron.
...H. L. Mencken

a reply to: Edumakated

You can make anyone sound like they are accomplished or an expert, especially to those that are not familiar with academics or a particular field

Not especially, but only to those. Anyone else can see at once that Kendi’s qualifications are genuine, and that − here’s the thing − they were awarded him by legitimate, indeed distinguished institutions. He is the very opposite of self-appointed. If you’re unable to make that out from the partial CV of him I posted, you really have no business discussing this subject.

But then neither does the OP, who thinks sixth-grade literacy and a self-diagnosed capacity ‘to think critically’ put him or her in a position to criticise and slander a highly qualified, demonstrably legitimate university professor, yet appears to believe that something an accidental white-supremacist hero said a hundred years ago is applicable to the present day.

Kendi has been accused of no crime − merely of laying off some employees and failing to launch a previously touted product. There is literally no story here outside the right-wing echo chamber; I had to go through several pages of results before I found one from a respectable news provider.

What is this thread except a vomiting-up of racist bile? It’s a disgrace even by ATS’s lax standards.

Indeed, a tendency to quote selectively from Mencken is a sure sign of a certain outlook on race − one that Mencken himself ultimately disavowed.

From the source:

Speakers rarely mention Mencken's name at [Mencken Club] meetings, except for random recitals from Chrestomathy or his earliest works: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), whom the alt-right see as a great visionary, and Men Versus the Man: A Correspondence between Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (1910), an epistolary debate where Mencken explores Social Darwinism, eugenics, heredity, and race. In the most offensive passage, Mencken defines ‘the American negro’ as ‘a low-caste man,’ and that the ‘superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.’ In its podcast, Mencken Club members touted Men Versus the Man as ‘a fun book’ and asserted ‘race realists, anti-globalists, educational reductionists and immigration restrictionists can draw nourishment from Mencken…and his disdain for the low-caste man.’

In reality, Mencken would have shunned the white identity politics of the alt-right. To Mencken, Nietzsche's ‘superior man’ was the enlightened individual of honour and courage, regardless of race, creed, or social background. Soon after 1910, Mencken reversed his views of white superiority and began calling for civil rights for African Americans. Despite the fact that his Diary contains racial slurs and ethnic slang, Mencken rebelled against ‘the Aryan imbecilities of Hitler’ and stated: ‘To me personally, race prejudice is one of the most preposterous of all the imbecilities of mankind. There are so few people on earth worth knowing that I hate to think of any man I like as a German or a Frenchman, a gentile or a Jew, Negro or a white man.’

He was especially contemptuous of white Anglo-Saxon Southerners, describing them as ’shiftless [and] stupid,’ and extolled African Americans as ‘superior to the whites against whom they are commonly pitted.’

Race-baiting, eh, OP? Which race is being baited on this sorry excuse for a thread?

originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: Edumakated

Not especially, but only to those. Anyone else can see at once that Kendi’s qualifications are genuine, and that − here’s the thing − they were awarded him by legitimate, indeed distinguished institutions. He is the very opposite of self-appointed. If you’re unable to make that out from the partial CV of him I posted, you really have no business discussing this subject.

letter degrees issued by diploma factories eager to prove their wokeness by gushing over a person of color.
I have spent some time in Academia and the higher you go the more it's about politics and personalities.

originally posted by: ElGoobero

originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: Edumakated

Not especially, but only to those. Anyone else can see at once that Kendi’s qualifications are genuine, and that − here’s the thing − they were awarded him by legitimate, indeed distinguished institutions. He is the very opposite of self-appointed. If you’re unable to make that out from the partial CV of him I posted, you really have no business discussing this subject.

letter degrees issued by diploma factories eager to prove their wokeness by gushing over a person of color.
I have spent some time in Academia and the higher you go the more it's about politics and personalities.

One of the hardest thing for me to learn was/is -- every thing is politics.

And nepotism is the worst.

a reply to: ElGoobero

I have spent some time in Academia and the higher you go the more it's about politics and personalities.

What did you do there? How high did you go?

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a reply to: Astyanax

Anyone else can see at once that Kendi’s qualifications are genuine, and that − here’s the thing − they were awarded him by legitimate, indeed distinguished institutions.

Since your debate has devolved to "gotcha" tactics, here we go:

Many people, including scholars, agree with me on the current state of these "distinguished institutions".
Modern Universities Are An Exercise in Insanity

The Ivy League has gone mad

Harvard was once great. Now it’s a joke.

But then neither does the OP, who thinks sixth-grade literacy and a self-diagnosed capacity ‘to think critically’ put him or her in a position to criticise and slander a highly qualified, demonstrably legitimate university professor, yet appears to believe that something an accidental white-supremacist hero said a hundred years ago is applicable to the present day.

What makes Dr. Kendi so highly qualified? You're inferring that because he has a Phd, he somehow is above reproach, and that my criticism of him amounts to slander. Are you saying that anyone with a Phd, who has received some academic honors is infallible? That certainly seems to be the case.

I'll end it with this:
Ibram X. Kendi accidentally disproves his own claims

a reply to: ColeYounger

Your sources are a bit unconvincing.

1. Some obscure but fresh-faced pundit opinionating away.
2. Famously right-wing. That's not a disqualification in itself, but -- another opinion piece, with only anecdotal evidence to boot.
3. Hate piece in a joke magazine focusing on just one place -- Harvard. Again, just a bunch of quoted opinions.

I gave you facts. Don't fob me off with opinions. You know what people say they're like, no?

a reply to: ColeYounger

You're inferring that because he has a Phd, he somehow is above reproach

O please. I couldn't care less about Kendi. I was raising a simple objection: he is far from 'self-appointed'.

Call it a quibble if you dare. You don't really know anything about the guy, you're just using him as a propaganda weapon, justifying this by your distaste for his speciality and his politics. Bad show.

originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: ColeYounger

Your sources are a bit unconvincing.

1. Some obscure but fresh-faced pundit opinionating away.
2. Famously right-wing. That's not a disqualification in itself, but -- another opinion piece, with only anecdotal evidence to boot.
3. Hate piece in a joke magazine focusing on just one place -- Harvard. Again, just a bunch of quoted opinions.

I gave you facts. Don't fob me off with opinions. You know what people say they're like, no?

The links I posted contained many facts. Apparently you didn't see them. Funny how my sources are jokes, but yours are the irrefutable truth.