This man wrote a book about how everything is racist in one way or another. Sound familiar? This is what the progressives used for their ideology, and the people of America have stood up and rejected this person’s ideas. Things are getting back to normal as people understand you can’t fix racism with racism - DEI. This method is old and has failed every time once people wake up. Back in the day, it was called quotas, and that is still going on today, though it has expanded quite a bit and is more reasonable with management understanding that diversity is good. It is no longer about black people but about women and other ethnicities as well.
We need to have a diversified workplace, and when blatant discrimination pops its head, it needs to be smacked down. Although one thing I have never understood is why racism doesn’t play when it comes to the NFL or NBA, and they are the ones that scream the loudest about discrimination. Kind of out of touch if you ask me, but then I don’t have an answer when it comes to sports. All IMO.
“Ibram X. Kendi has been relatively quiet since 2025, when his Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University closed its doors. The center, which raised over $50 million in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, was founded in order to “transform how racial research is done.”
If Kendi transformed “racial research” at all, then he transformed it from an already troubled enterprise into a complete dumpster fire. After a wave of layoffs in 2023, ex-employees began complaining of a “workplace culture that included fear of retaliation and discrimination.” The ultimate indictment of the center, however, was its lack of output. Given three years, several dozen staff members, and the budget of a midsize Hollywood action film, Kendi’s research center managed to produce just two research papers before collapsing under the weight of its own pointlessness.
One could have predicted this outcome based upon the dubious quality of Kendi’s previous work—in particular his best-selling 2019 book How to Be an Antiracist. In that book, Kendi argued that there is no such thing as a race-neutral public policy. “Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity,” he proclaimed. Even a policy as mundane as the capital gains tax, Kendi argued, must be either racist or anti-racist. The book was a bestseller.
Kendi’s new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age, is equally nuanced. But without the atmosphere of 2020’s racial reckoning to buoy the book, it appears to be falling flat. Even the left-leaning Guardian, which reviewed his last book positively, described Chain of Ideas as “Neither artful in prose nor powerful in statement.”