Boston University’s Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Centre for Antiracist Research’ has laid off approximately 20 staff members as it shifts to a ‘fellowship model’, amid controversy surrounding the founder’s antiracist books. Fox News has the story.
The staff for Ibram X. Kendi’s Centre for Antiracist Research at Boston University will be smaller this school year after recent layoffs.
Boston University confirmed to FOX News Digital on Thursday that the centre laid off approximately 15 to 20 staff members in what it called an “evolving” process.
“The centre is evolving to a fellowship model. Dr. Kendi remains the director. We can confirm that there were layoffs at the centre. The university and centre are committed to working with and supporting affected employees as they look for their next opportunities,” Boston University PR Associate Vice President Rachel Lapal Cavallario said in a statement.
The ‘teams’ page for the centre on Boston University’s website is currently down… A snapshot of the page from July showed that the centre had employed approximately 45 staffers.
Kendi was hired by Boston University as a history professor in June 2020, during the height of protests and riots after George Floyd’s death. Shortly afterward, Kendi announced the movement of his antiracist research centre from American University, where he previously taught, to Boston University, where he currently sits as the centre’s director.
Kendi rose to prominence over the last few years for his defence of critical race theory as well as teaching racial concepts to children. He has published several books on the subject of racism including How to Be an Anti-Racist and the children’s book Antiracist Baby.
The latter has faced the most protest for teaching kids CRT, with several schools recommending or assigning the book.
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True. But I should like to add an important qualification. The doctrines touted by the Andrews of this world are not “anti-racist” at all; they are in fact expressions (witting or unwitting) of racial hatred, and of the most hateful kind, laying the blame for the world’s ills upon one people and one ethnicity alone; and, as a result, demanding rafts of coercive policy against that people, policy effectively cast as some variety of justified revenge. No end to these coercions and discriminations is offered. Worst of all they rest on skewed, partial, dishonest history (witness that abominable little woman so recently exposed for pretending that some invention was “stolen from slaves”) and notions of inherited, collective guilt – notions which can be found at the heart of extremist movements throughout history and across the world. I am delighted that at least some of the purveyors of this poisonous nonsense have been laid off; let the rest of them follow.
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Time to see if Hard Lines is on duty….Maybe you’re aware of the recent episode in London where a black woman was caught shoplifting and it all kicked off because she said the store owner assaulted her. Lo and behold the local black community are pulling out their racist victim cards and calling ‘white supremacy’, the laugh being that the shop owner was Asian, but don’t let that stop you being a black racist! The second laugh, take a look at the video in the comments section showing store footage of what actually went down and who the violent culprit really is. The woman’s proper psycho but because she’s black she gets a free pass??
If you scroll down you can see how it all started. He’s trying to stop her leaving with stuff she hasn’t paid for. Then he’s restraining her while someone rings the police but she’s fighting him the whole time. Was he meant to just let her leave with her swag, like they’re doing in the US? Who do you think is at fault? Apparently she was arrested for shoplifting in the end but I’ve a feeling his business is done for.
Nothing is doing quite as much to assist social breakdown as the Police’s reluctance to police petty crimes. If you don’t crack down on petty crime, you open up decriminalisation of a broad range of offences against the person and property, which is largely what has happened over the last 10 years.
It’s the sense of entitlement and justification for their crimes, whether it be crimes such as stealing or, at the other end of the spectrum, murder. It could be the ”kill de boer” over in S. Africa, where black people are targeting white farmers to torture and butcher or it could be this example, in the US. Horrific murder caught on camera. The DM covered it and the article is linked in the comments section. Would they have done this had the cyclist have been black?? But they’ll find some way of justifying it, right? But only they get to cry ”racism’!”
The police are too busy cracking down on very petty (non)crime such as comments about lesbian nana’s. The same police force no longer investigates shop lifting if the goods stolen are worth less than £250. Then there’s the all the thought crime to investigate such as taking a picture of a poster with a sticker on it. Everybody above the rank of sergeant needs to be sacked so we can start again with constables who want to do their job and keep their communities safe.
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The demand for racism seems to be far exceeding the supply.
Grifters are gonna grift.
If anyone tells you that you are a victim, its usually because they want to control you…
True. But I should like to add an important qualification. The doctrines touted by the Andrews of this world are not “anti-racist” at all; they are in fact expressions (witting or unwitting) of racial hatred, and of the most hateful kind, laying the blame for the world’s ills upon one people and one ethnicity alone; and, as a result, demanding rafts of coercive policy against that people, policy effectively cast as some variety of justified revenge. No end to these coercions and discriminations is offered. Worst of all they rest on skewed, partial, dishonest history (witness that abominable little woman so recently exposed for pretending that some invention was “stolen from slaves”) and notions of inherited, collective guilt – notions which can be found at the heart of extremist movements throughout history and across the world. I am delighted that at least some of the purveyors of this poisonous nonsense have been laid off; let the rest of them follow.
Time to see if Hard Lines is on duty….Maybe you’re aware of the recent episode in London where a black woman was caught shoplifting and it all kicked off because she said the store owner assaulted her. Lo and behold the local black community are pulling out their racist victim cards and calling ‘white supremacy’, the laugh being that the shop owner was Asian, but don’t let that stop you being a black racist! The second laugh, take a look at the video in the comments section showing store footage of what actually went down and who the violent culprit really is. The woman’s proper psycho but because she’s black she gets a free pass??
https://twitter.com/BFirstParty/status/1701913748707918120
If you scroll down you can see how it all started. He’s trying to stop her leaving with stuff she hasn’t paid for. Then he’s restraining her while someone rings the police but she’s fighting him the whole time. Was he meant to just let her leave with her swag, like they’re doing in the US? Who do you think is at fault? Apparently she was arrested for shoplifting in the end but I’ve a feeling his business is done for.
https://twitter.com/Dhrubtim/status/1701641089059328136
Nothing is doing quite as much to assist social breakdown as the Police’s reluctance to police petty crimes. If you don’t crack down on petty crime, you open up decriminalisation of a broad range of offences against the person and property, which is largely what has happened over the last 10 years.
It’s the sense of entitlement and justification for their crimes, whether it be crimes such as stealing or, at the other end of the spectrum, murder. It could be the ”kill de boer” over in S. Africa, where black people are targeting white farmers to torture and butcher or it could be this example, in the US. Horrific murder caught on camera. The DM covered it and the article is linked in the comments section. Would they have done this had the cyclist have been black?? But they’ll find some way of justifying it, right? But only they get to cry ”racism’!”
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1702964440486842766
The police are too busy cracking down on very petty (non)crime such as comments about lesbian nana’s. The same police force no longer investigates shop lifting if the goods stolen are worth less than £250. Then there’s the all the thought crime to investigate such as taking a picture of a poster with a sticker on it. Everybody above the rank of sergeant needs to be sacked so we can start again with constables who want to do their job and keep their communities safe.