Posted on 06/11/2022 4:45:20 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
Boston University Professor Ibram Kendi recently shared an experience he, his partner and their daughter had with a daycare.
Kendi, who has made hundreds of thousands of dollars on the idea that all of America is racist, wrote an essay on June 7 in The Atlantic where he recounted what happened in 2017.
At first, the couple “laughed off” and didn’t worry that their daughter Imani played with a “blue-eyed white doll” at the daycare.
But then Kendi began to wonder if his daughter had “already breathed in what the psychologist Beverly Daniel Tatum has called the ‘smog’ of white superiority.”
He wrote:
Maybe our minds were sounding a false alarm. Maybe the eye and skin color and hair texture of the doll had no bearing on why Imani had become attached. I did not know. No one knew. But I did know why the alarm was ringing.
Kendi then spent 17 paragraphs giving a history of toys and racism going back to 1897 through the present day, before returning to his concerns that one day in 2017.
“Regardless of your race, it’s never too early to consider the messages a child is receiving from the world around them,” he wrote. “Color blindness is not an option. Research has demonstrated that even at 1 year old, our children notice different skin colors.”
“We can impress upon children the equality of dark and light colors,” the author of the “Antiracist Baby” wrote.
“We can use dolls to acknowledge difference in skin color but dismiss the racist notions that the darker, the worse,” Kendi wrote.
But thankfully one day his daughter “tossed the white doll aside” which Kendi and his partner saw as a victory.
But he erred, he said, because had not checked out if there was a diverse set of dolls at the daycare. “Anger overtook me. Not at the day care’s owner—at myself. Imani had been going here for several weeks, and not once did I examine the toy chests,” he said.
It turned out his daughter had no other option because there were only white dolls in the toy chest.
“We told the owner about the white dolls before leaving for the day. Changes came,” Kendi wrote. “But I had failed my doll test.”
Ibram, STFU until you give up ALL of western life. You know, that whitey stuff.
Did these black racists hang the doll?
He’s a Drama Queen
I’d like to meet him and learn from his deep wisdom. Any alley about one AM. :)
Yep!
Leftists worry about the weirdest stuff.
They’re wired strangely. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.
“The only solution to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination.
“The only solution to past discrimination is present discrimination.
The only solution to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
- Ibrahim X Kendi, a famous Critical Race Theorist.
“Color blindness is not an option.”
That would mean that “content of character” isn’t an option either, then.
I do not believe this. No daycare in the Cambridge Somerville area would not have a majority of non white dolls. It is in their leftist dna This guy is lying. again
He is lying
He could always move to any country in Africa where they only have black dolls made of sticks, mud huts and no water. A real paradise, but at least no white people to corrupt his kids. /spit
We live in a snowflake culture. Man, the people who weathered the Depression, and won WWII would be stunned by the poofters who are in charge now. Blue eyed dolls. Geez. Why don’t you go back to Banggoon where the daily dilemma is finding drinking water that doesn’t resemble chocolate milk?
“Can you show me on this doll where the bad racist spread his racist lies?”
🔝🔝🔝
Exactly
This guy is the racist.
He’s the human version of the Babylon 🐝
It seems Kendi is filled with an all-consuming hatred for white people.
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