The 'Antiracism' Taking Over Our Institutions Threatens Liberty and Justice for All
Our ruling class is speaking in Ibram X. Kendi's tongue. I explain what that means for the country.
Ibram Xolani Kendi, born Ibram Henry Rogers to a black liberation theology-adhering tax accountant father and health-care business analyst mother, is the Prophet of Wokedom to whom the likes of Twitter’s Jack Dorsey pays $10 million to prove his virtue.
Kendi is a bestselling author across several categories, with an ever-growing list of scholarly credentials and awards. He is ubiquitous in corporate media, on college campuses, and at elite conclaves. Perhaps most significant of all, Kendi’s ideas are permeating the commanding heights of society, trickling into every aspect of American life, and therefore turning him into a transcendent figure.
From the words and policies of the Biden administration, to cities providing guaranteed income exclusively to certain races, medical centers providing preferential healthcare too based on race, the triumph of critical race theory over our schools, and the Great Awokening of Corporate America, we as a nation are succumbing to Ibram X. Kendi’s ideology of Antiracism. As such, it behooves us to examine what that entails, through parsing the views of the man behind it.
I do so in a new piece at The Federalist.
As I conclude, the policy prescriptions the likes of Kendi call for:
would completely erode the liberty and justice our Constitution aims to codify and protect. That might be the point. Under the political system that emerged from our founding documents, different peoples have experienced different outcomes. If liberty and justice are racist, then antiracism demands illiberalism and injustice in pursuit of “equity.”
This is the call to which the Biden administration is disturbingly responding when it issues an executive order calling again for “Affirmatively advancing equity.” It poses a mortal danger to America. But to the “antiracist,” it constitutes progress given our repugnant past and present—given that, as Kendi notes, “White terror is as American as the Stars and Stripes,” and our nation has been “sort of structured around racial identity, racism, and even white supremacy.”
Such an effort to equalize outcomes, of course, as it has everywhere Communism has been faithfully implemented, would ultimately leave everyone worse off—at each other’s throats, poor, and unsafe. Ironically for Kendi, the man laser-focused on outcomes, in the effort to achieve his “antiracist” vision, only intent seems to matter.
As for the Jack Dorseys of corporate America funding the Woke, whether they are true believers, cowards paying for protection from a social justice shakedown, or cynics thinking endorsing such policies will benefit their bottom line, they will be complicit in ruining the country from which they have so richly benefited if we supplant Kendi-esque “equality” with “equity.”
Read the whole thing here.