CRT AND IBRAM X. KENDI

 

 

Consistent with Critical Race Theory (CRT), there is no forgiveness for whites. Whatever their heroic or caring act, it will be interpreted disparagingly.

 

·       [Ibram] Kendi [a leading CRT voice] provoked controversy when he tweeted about the relationship between Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, and two of her seven children, who had been adopted from an orphanage in Haiti. Kendi said:

 

o   Some White colonizers 'adopted' Black children. They 'civilized' these 'savage' children in the 'superior' ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can't be racist. (Wikipedia)

 

While it must be admitted that all of us are vulnerable to self-serving, virtue signaling impulses, we also have praiseworthy impulses. However, without being able to look into the hearts of white people, Kendi has condemned them as self-serving racists. By doing so, he is bearing false witness:

 

·       Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11–12)

Kendi and other CRT theorists not only demonstrate that they are racists, they are illegitimately judging others and God. To defend racism anywhere is to open the door to it everywhere.

 

I would suggest that Kendi do a study of the children raised by white parents and ask them if their parents gave indication of being racists. However, I do not think he will bother with this. He is already committed to racism:

 

·       “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” (How to Be an Anti-Racist)

 

Ironically, Kendi believes that being an “Anti-Racist” commits you to being a racist discrimination. And yet, he is given a free-pass. Should we not call him out on this if we are against racism?

Meanwhile, many CRT advocates claim that CRT is not being taught in our institutions. However, investigative reporter, Christopher F. Rufo, has documented many instances of how CRT has entered into our institutions:

 

·       What does critical race theory look like in practice? Last year, I authored a series of reports focused on critical race theory in the federal government. The FBI was holding workshops on intersectionality theory. The Department of Homeland Security was telling white employees that they were committing “microinequities” and had been “socialized into oppressor roles.” The Treasury Department held a training session telling staff members that “virtually all white people contribute to racism” and that they must convert “everyone in the federal government” to the ideology of “antiracism.” And the Sandia National Laboratories, which design America’s nuclear arsenal, sent white male executives to a three-day re-education camp where they were told that “white male culture” was analogous to the “KKK,” “white supremacists” and “mass killings.” The executives were then forced to renounce their “white male privilege” and to write letters of apology to fictitious women and people of color.

 

·       In Cupertino, Calif., an elementary school forced first-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” In Springfield, Mo., a middle school forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” based on the idea that straight, white, English-speaking, Christian males are members of the oppressor class and must atone for their privilege and “covert white supremacy.”

 

·       In Philadelphia, an elementary school forced fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to free 1960s radical Angela Davis from prison, where she had once been held on charges of murder. And in Seattle, the school district told white teachers that they are guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgment of [their] thieved inheritance.”

·       I’m just one investigative journalist, but I’ve developed a database of more than 1,000 of these stories. https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/what-critical-race-theory-is-really-about/