© Getty Images / Simone Padovani/AwakeningAmerican author and historian Ibram X Kendi attends a photocall during Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 10, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Ibram X. Kendi's most ambitious policy proposal - that Americans should "pass an anti-racist amendment to the US constitution" - illustrates the problem with treating all racial inequality as evidence of unjust discrimination.
It's been a good week for Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history, best-selling author, and founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. On August 20, his nascent research center came into
possession of a not-inconsequential sum of money - $10 million to be exact - thanks to the largesse of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The research center's
mission is "to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice." Or, as the bold message on the website's homepage reads, "BE ANTIRACIST."
Kendi has been interested in racism, and of course its antithesis, "anti-racism" for some time. He is the author of five books: 'The Black Campus Movement', 'Stamped from the Beginning', 'How to Be an Antiracist', 'STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism and You', and - most recently - 'Antiracist Baby'.
Comment: Good for the woman who wouldn't buckle to the shrieking mob, even asking "Are you a Christian?". Unfortunately, this appears to be the latest tactic put into play by the woke mob (language warnings):