In what Kendi called 'the hardest decision of his career,' presumably harder than labeling a majority of his countrymen as racists on the basis of their skin color, he announced that he was laying off
"The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
Kendi has a line of children’s books intended to impart his message to toddlers, adolescents, and parents.In 2020, Twitter’s founder and former owner Jack Dorsey donated $10 million to support Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research just after Kendi founded it. At its height, CAR employed 43 people, boasted a news site operated in partnership with The Boston Globe, hosted events to cultivate the new ideology, and planned undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
CAR’s website content is remarkably sparse for an organization with resources in the mid eight-figures.Boston University sociology professor Saida U. Grundy, who is Black and a former CAR affiliate identified on the university’s website as a "feminist sociologist of race and ethnicity," told The New York Times that "commensurate to the amount of cash and donations taken in, the outputs were minuscule.
BU’s investigation will continue at academia’s slow pace and may eventually discover where the money went and who was responsible. Likely to avoid those unpleasant consequences, BU’s interim president Kenneth Freeman has doubled down on his commitment to Kendi’s ideology.
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