Posted on 02/18/2020 4:02:48 PM PST by Eleutheria5
A little more than 20 years ago, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi delivered the speech that changed his life forever.
Kendi, who grew up in New York and went to school in Virginia, was a finalist in the Prince William County Martin Luther King, Jr. oratorical contest. Hosted by the Delta Theta Sigma Alumnae Chapter, the contest encourages children from across Northern Virginia to display extraordinary oratorical and rhetoric skills in honor of Dr. King.
He took the stage and made a presentation that he later came to regret.
“I more or less expressed many of the ideas that had been circulated around this country about black youth in the 1990s,” he remembers. “I talked about black youth being the most feared group in society — as if it was our fault. To say something is inferior about a racial group is to say racist ideas.”
Realizing the flaw in his argument, Kendi entered a period of intense self-reflection, which led him to study for a postgraduate degree in African American Studies at Temple University.
After publishing his PhD dissertation, a study of African American life he called “The Black Campus Movement,” Kendi developed his ideas into an award-winning book. “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” won him the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016.
Kendi’s new book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” looks back at his fateful day in the oratorical contest...
“I wanted to introduce for many Americans the term ‘anti-racist’ and show how it is the true opposite of ‘racist,’” he says. “[We] really talk through what it means to be anti-racist, meaning to look at the racial groups as as equals, to support policies that lead to equity and justice.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Do you think you are a racists?...
Do the accusers have any idea that they are also racists?
Let me guess?
The {TL:DR} translation of the essay is: “Gimme free stuff?” or, to take it out of the language of the KKKolonialiSSt OppreSSorSS: “Gibsmedat!”
/yes, sarc
Racists are people who are obsessed with race and make everything about race.
Like this Antonio guy, for instance.
Please, stop calling the plagiarist “Dr” King
Who the heck cares?
The charge has been flogged for so long that I am deaf to it.
Oh, not according to Cosmo
I’ve been all the way through racism and out the other end. I have two black grandchildren whom I love just fine. My daughter, their mother, is an idiot, but that’s not their fault. Their fathers, I despise. I would have despised them if they were white, just as much. Am I a racist? I’m through the looking glass, and that whole dialectic doesn’t matter any more. I post this article as a sample of the nonsensical claptrap that obsesses some people on the left, mostly to poke fun.
I am a non racist, but I am tainted irreparably with white privilege.
I have been tempted to wear black face like Justin Trudeau of Canada did. ( sarc.)
Its time for peole to enter thge 21st Century. We just had a black president for two terms elected by .....( wait for it)...............WHITE PEOPLE !
For all your lefty race card players, let the black people go, stop keeping them 200 years in the past on the plantations, making them sound today as if they are still slaves, seeking an ever shifting, unattainable historic justice?
Get on with your lives. Enjoy the fruits of your OWN labor in a booming economy. LEAVE THE PLANTATION BEHIND!
DILLIGAF?
Oh, so even if you aren’t a racist by any sane measure, you are a racist simply by being white? So more or less, they are describing original sin.
Let me guess the redemption and sacraments...
The constant harping over a small fraction of time in our American history is nothing more than bullying. Sins of the father are not inherited. Deal with it, bigots.
” To say something is inferior about a racial group is to say racist ideas.”
Really?
Like White men can’t jump?
Or White girl bleed a lot?
Maybe White Men Can’t Dance?
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Let’s try something new...
Black racist rhetoric is beyond boring.
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“I talked about black youth being the most feared group in society — as if it was our fault.”
Black youths are the single most violent group of individuals in the US. That’s not racist. That’s a fact.
I’m obviously racist against Latinas and Indians as I’m married to one and have inflicted myself upon her for 23 years.
She tells me I’m racist constantly.
This is how I know foreplay has officially begun. /TMI
The left have turned all accusations of racism into a joke.
Ding!
Ding!
Ding!...we have a winner.
That card is threadbare.
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
Man looks at outward appearance. God looks on the heart.
Jesus told the story of 2 people. One said all the right things but did not do the right things. The other said all the wrong things. But did the right thing.
That is how many of us were raised. What label is put on that?
I’m sick of caring.
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