Posted on 10/06/2023 5:06:23 PM PDT by CFW
In September of 2020, just weeks after Ibram X. Kendi launched the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, the school approved a $600,000 mortgage to an unnamed professor. The university won’t say which professor that loan went to, but it was doled out to a trust controlled by Ibram X. Kendi’s brother-in-law, Macharia Edmonds.
The mortgage helped to cover the down payment for a $4.56 million luxury penthouse triplex that boasts the "best of sophisticated Boston living." Public real estate records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the trust is controlled by Edmonds, a former Obama campaign official and attorney who now serves as a Global Content Policy Lead for YouTube in San Francisco.
Edmonds's only apparent affiliation with Boston University is through Kendi, who is married to his sister, Sadiqa, also an associate professor at Boston University. Edmonds controls the trust on behalf of its unnamed beneficiary. While it’s not uncommon for universities to provide sweetheart loans and mortgages with below-market rates to poach star professors from their competitors, experts told the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009 that the IRS strongly discourages such transactions.
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Boston University spokeswoman Rachel Lapal Cavallario told the Free Beacon that the beneficiary of the trust is a professor at the university but declined to provide the person’s name, the interest rate of the loan, or how much has been repaid. Cavallario added that the professor "applied for and received the loan under a longstanding university program to assist senior faculty with their housing needs," but declined to provide the Free Beacon any documentation about the university’s faculty home loan program.
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Higher education and the racism business are the same entities.
It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
I hate these people.
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Kendi should be investigated.
Universities are swimming in federal and alumni dollars. Meanwhile they continue to raise tuition well beyond the rate of inflation saddling middle class students and families with high debt in return for an “education” that fails to provide skills needed for survival in the 21st century world.
Time to cut off all federal funding for education, student loans and research grants. Let the universities compete in the private sector. It will force them to become efficient, cutting worthless degrees, insane professors and bloated bureaucracies. Likely many worthless colleges and universities will fail to adapt and will die. America will benefit.
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