Posted on 06/24/2021 11:24:49 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Amazon reportedly bought hundreds of copies of Ibram X. Kendi’s so-called “antiracist” books, which will be distributed to high school students in Arlington, Virginia. The Masters of the Universe also paid Kendi’s coauthor $10,000 to speak to students.
Amazon spent $5,000 on copies of Kendi’s book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, which will be distributed to Virginia public school students as part of a program to promote black authors, according to emails between Amazon and school district officials, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The emails show that Amazon employees had reached out to Arlington Public Schools as part of “NeighborGood,” a program to donate $100,000 to schools and other institutions that “empower black voices and serve black communities.”
While the tech giant initially offered to buy Kindles or other equipment, Arlington Public Schools Director of Diversity and Inclusion Arron Gregory responded by requesting copies of Kendi’s book, reports the Washington Free Beacon.
Amazon reportedly donated between 500 and 600 copies of the book to Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, and paid another $10,000 to have Kendi’s co-author, Jason Reynolds, address students.
“Instead of donating Kindles and hot spots to students in Arlington Public Schools, Amazon chose to spread the controversial ideology of critical race theory,” said Asra Nomani, vice president of Parents Defending Education — the group that obtained the emails through a public records request — in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon.
“The shortsighted decisions during a pandemic, with so many students vulnerable, reflect the national crisis of school districts circumventing parents to indoctrinate students — in this case, with the help of corporate America,” Nomani added.
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Wonder if book-burnings are out of vogue??
Jeff bezos is a globalist POS.
Do the world a favor and stay in space. I wouldn’t shed a single tear if something happened to his spaceship.
>>which will be distributed to Virginia public school students as part of a program to promote black authors
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Sowell/e/B00J5BK55K%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Ibram Kendi - so smart, he couldn’t get 1000 on his SAT.
The school can choose to not accept the gift if they wanted or better yet give it to the art class and make Papier-mâché with it. Maybe have the kids do an art project with it and then send a a photo to Bezos thanking him for the supplies
>> I wouldn’t shed a single tear if something happened to his spaceship.
Maybe he’s simply planning to “disappear”
“Oh so sorry my maiden flight blew up, vanished without a trace (and billions of dollars)”
That’s probably the only way they can get rid of them.
“It was during the late summer and out of a violent storm appears a Dutch ship. The ship had no cargo except for the twenty or so Africans whom the captain and his crew had recently robbed from a Spanish ship. The captain exchanged the Africans for food, then set back on the sail.
The first 20 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, brought by Dutch traders who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship. The Spanish usually baptized slaves in Africa before embarking them. As English custom by then, they considered baptized Christians exempt from slavery, colonists treated these Africans as indentured servants, and they joined about 1,000 English indentured servants already in the colony.”
This is what the blacks consider the start of slavery in the US?
I walked into an estate sale in DC years ago and there were thousands of boxes of new unopened leftist books in every inch of the buildings. Libs buy each other’s books by the truckload to inflate fake sales numbers.
Time was in England that independent labels would send in people to buy up copies of a single.
Then those same copies would be sold as inventory to other stores and bought up again until it became a chart hit and sustained its production.
Conservatives,should be buying high schools thousands of copies of “Atlas Shrugged” and “1984” to counter these subversive elements.
That’s great, they could be very useful. A helpful tip; crumple the paper a couple of times before you wipe, it feels softer then.
Ah yes, “Wokefield” high school...
typical leftist suburban con job, the most “diverse” school in Arlington County, but they isolate the white kids in “honors” classes while the on-level classes are just passing black and brown kids along.
Kendi is a racist America hater who should not be allowed anywhere near children or teachers.
But then, we had one of those as President for eight years.
I would love to boycott Amazon. Why can’t there be a worthy competitor? I’m tired of giving money to evil.
As a Christian, it pains me to see the take over of lost and evil intent persons, who have the money to do the damage they are doing... to our children, to our work place... to our society! it brings nothing but bad news for everyone, and it’s destruction in the works.
People with money think they also have power.... and money.. the love of money... is the root of all evil. See it in action! the world has gone crazy... they do not even know what “good” is...or what “right” is... they are sunk deep into the evil works...and if you think it’s not evil..take another look at what they are doing!
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