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University of Florida Professor: Wanting Black People to Get an Education is “Racist”

Monday, 18 April 2016, 10:20 Aurelius Uncategorized 36

In his new book, “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” Professor Ibram X. Kendi argues that “almost everyone is some kind of racist.” This includes people who thought that African Americans should get an education.

Professor Kendi
Professor Kendi

Kendi, a Professor of History at the University of Florida, argues that people can be both overtly and covertly racist. His definition of racist is “any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way.”

However, this includes people like William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated for social justice for black people and an end to slavery in the 1800s.

Garrison wrote that the enslavement of African Americans had caused them socioeconomic damage, but their intelligence and morality stayed uncorrupted. “Nothing has been left undone to cripple their intellects, darken their minds, debase their moral nature, obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind,” Garrison wrote.

To alleviate the damage done to them by slavery, however, Garrison believed that black people should have “educational development,” in order to learn things that they were barred from while slaves. “Racist,” Kendi says of Garrison.

According to Kendi, Garrison’s assertion is racist because “he still accepted even temporary racial inferiority, to be remedied with education or other kindly forms of social uplift.”

Kendi also argues in his book that asking black people to help end racism is racist in itself, as it is white people who need end racism. The Cosby Show, for example, was racist because it attempted to “redeem the Black family in the eyes of White America.”

Even Barack Obama is a racist, according to Professor Kendi, because President Obama blamed racism equally on black and white people. “Obama ended up following in the racist footsteps of every president since Richard Nixon,” he explains, “legitimizing racist resentments, saying those resentments were not racist, and redirecting those resentments toward political opponents.”

The court case that ended segregation was “marred by racism” as well. Kendi writes that Chief Justice Earl Warren “essentially offered a racist opinion in this landmark case: separate Black educational facilities were inherently unequal and inferior because Black students were not being exposed to White students.”

36 Comments on University of Florida Professor: Wanting Black People to Get an Education is “Racist”

  2. So……does he think the black Africans who captured, enslaved and then sold black Africans from other tribes were/are racist also?
    People like this guy are looking for notoriety and money.
    I wonder how much he wants?
    Maybe a permanent spot as a contributor on PMSNBC?

  5. 1) He’s a ravcist for having gotten an education.

    2) He is guilty of and must be severely punished for Cultural appropriation of White/Western Civilization wisdom.

    3) A one-way ticket to Botswana would be fitting.

  9. Using the standard catch ’22’ the white person can’t win. Damned if we do,damned If we don’t.
    I still think offering 1 million to leave the country and never come back is the answer.
    I don’t care where you go,but you can’t stay here.

  10. Kendi also argues in his book that asking black people to help end racism is racist in itself, as it is white people who need end racism. The Cosby Show, for example, was racist because it attempted to “redeem the Black family in the eyes of White America.”

    By claiming that it is white people (and not black people) who need to end racism, he is in effect claiming that white people need to redeem themselves in the eyes of black people. By his own definition and example, he is guilty of racism.

  19. How long before ‘they’ label bowel movements racist. I feel I am living in a ‘Chicken Little’ world; the grass is racist! The white blossoms on a tree are racist! Lord help you, if you own a black Labrador! All the labs should be labeled using only the term Labrador. Where the hell does it end?

    If ISIS chose to wear white instead of black, they’d be racist and maybe Obama would take their threats seriously.

  20. [His definition of racist is “any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way.”]

    So blacks are racist when they classify themselves as being inferior and therefore cannot be held to the same standards as everyone else?

  29. Aww, geez, puffessah … if EVERYBODY is a racist, then NOBODY is a fucking racist. We don’t stare and gawk when we see someone with 2 eyes in his head – or 2 arms – or 2 legs.

    If everyone (normally) has 2 feet we no longer must qualify “biped.”
    If everyones’ (normally) eyes point forward with a separation between them, we no longer have to qualify “stereoptic.”

    Get a grip, dude.

    Hope your racist baloney makes you a bunch of bucks.

    izlamo delenda est …

  30. He’s aware, of course, that suits and glasses are white inventions?

    As are professorships?

    As are Universities?

    Perhaps he should return to his mud-hut, disease-ridden, AIDS-infested, subsistence-farming ancestral roots?

    izlamo delenda est …

  31. If blacks think an education is racist, then fine, don’t get one. Just don’t come crying to the rest of us when you can’t make a living. For that matter, welfare is racist since it keeps the black man down.

    There has never been a better time in America for educated black Americans to land a secure, high paying job, since nearly all business and governments are hiring as many educated blacks as they can to fill racial quotas.

    Effin whiners don’t WANT and education, that means WORK and no more handouts.

  33. Then why are you in the EDUCATION system you sanctimonious ?head? I can imagine the pitch for his course:

    “Sign up for my worthless class and earn credit by learning jack ?!”

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