Posted on 03/24/2021 9:56:00 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The Boston Globe editorial team and "How to be an Antiracist" author Ibram X. Kendi are joining forces to create a news outlet dedicated to reframing the national conversation on race.
What are the details? "The Emancipator," as it will be called, is the brain child of Kendi and Boston Globe editorial page editor Bina Venkataraman. The two reportedly met last summer as nationwide protests raged on following the death of George Floyd to discuss how to take advantage of ongoing conversations about race. Then last week they announced the plans.
The publication is to be styled after historic abolitionist newspapers started in Boston in the 19th century and aims to "amplify critical voices, ideas, debates, and evidence-based opinion in an effort to hasten racial
Today, the @AntiracismCtr and @GlobeOpinion are announcing a partnership: the resurrection of the first antislavery… https://t.co/gqfgoNkE9S — Ibram X. Kendi (@Ibram X. Kendi)1615902554.0 Kendi, who is the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, said he hopes the new publication will be as influential as its namesake was in advancing the country toward the end of slavery. Perhaps his publication, he suggested, would lead to the end of all racism and inequality.
"When The Emancipator was first founded in 1820, it was very difficult for people to believe that slavery, 45 years later, would be no more, just as I think there are many people today who can't imagine that there could be a nation without racism and inequality," Kendi said. "This reimagined platform will marry the best of scholarship and journalism to analyze, comment, and seek truth about the racial problems of our time."
In his New York Times bestselling book, Kendi advances the viewpoint that America is a fundamentally racist country and that Americans, in general, are inherently racist. The ideas outlined in his book have since made their way into numerous classrooms across the country.
What else? The new publication, set to launch this summer, is supported by Boston University and the Boston Globe and has been awarded a hefty seven-figure budget.
It will undoubtedly articulate ideas from a fixed leftist perspective. The project will be guided by an advisory board featuring a host of prominent progressive writers and pundits, including "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones and MSNBC political analyst Joy Reid.
“antiracist” Don’t make me puke. This POS is a hell of a lot more racis’ than anyone I know. But since he’s a ‘poc’ it’s apparently okee dokee. Not to me.
“We have decided that you aren’t being lied to enough. But we have a plan to fix that ...”
Hilarious. The Boston Globe has been losing money since Dukakis was Gov. this will be fun to watch crash and burn.
Being black = never racist
“or will whites just allow themselves to be pounded into submission?”
That one. Anything else would be “racist.” Any resistance will immediately be squelched. Things should really get hopping in a few years when whites are no longer a majority in the U.S. By then, there won’t be many or any people still living with a memory of the primary historical events used to keep white people from taking their own side.
Racists, whose work has “made its way into classrooms across the country” are now going to be leveraged to “reframe” the national discussion on race?
I have gotten to the point I don’t want to see the faces of people who live in this country, and I don’t even want to hear any news of this country.
How on earth did someone like me, an optimist, end up here?
Friggin’ sad ain’t it. The ever increasing spiral down the crapper is accelerating. WTH?
>>In his New York Times bestselling book, Kendi advances the viewpoint that America is a fundamentally racist country and that Americans, in general, are inherently racist.
Ask him if Nation of Islam’s teachings are inherently racist.
Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.
Over the years, I have looked at your tagline many, many times, and...now...I don’t just read it, I feel it.
I am disheartened beyond words.
I know I have to find a way to get back in the saddle, but...it looks grim to me.
Lincoln was the emancipator and they don’t like to hear that because they are still living in slavery and blaming their failures on Whitey.
Let me guess, the "Black Muslim Glob", ...
I have one question:
Why in the Sam Hill don’t these folks, if they want credibility, and not dismissals, get an easier name to pronounce?
In other words, let me introduce you to woke anti-white racism.
What is the “X” for? Xpert? Xsquizit?
How much do you want to bet that “The Emancipator” will advocate for enslaving whites...to “make it right”
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