Comment by jccalhoun
1 year ago
> Kendi, Ibram X.
What specifically is "hyper-racist" about him? I read his wikipedia entry and didn't find anything "hyper-racist" about him.
1 year ago
> Kendi, Ibram X.
What specifically is "hyper-racist" about him? I read his wikipedia entry and didn't find anything "hyper-racist" about him.
I'm just hearing this term for the first time, but let me give it a shot. Racism is bias based on race. In the rural south near me, the racism that I see looks like this: black person gets a few weird looks, and they need to be extra-polite to gain someone's trust. It's not a belief that every single black person shares the foibles of the worst of their race.
Ibram X Kendi (Real name Henry Rogers), on the other hand, seems to believe that it is impossible for a white person to be good. We are somehow all racist, and all responsible for slavery.
The latter is simply more racist. The former is simply using race as a data point, which isn't kind or fair, but it is understandable. Kendi's approach is moral judgement based on skin color, with the only way out being perpetual genuflection.
> Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!
- George Wallace, 1963
> The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
- Ibram X. Kendi, 2019