Boston University investigates the Ibram X. Kendi anti-racist center.

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your data at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. All righty folks. So you remember Ibram X. Kendi. This guy is a genius.

How do I know that he's a genius? He's such a genius that he actually won a MacArthur,

Genius Grant in 2021. That was a 625,000 no stringsached fellowship honoring his exceptional creativity, scholarly achievements,

gift for communicating his anti-racist work and ideas with diverse audiences, and promise for further

benefiting society.

That is Boston University that gave him this anti-racist grant.

That is super inspiring stuff.

Now, for those who have not followed, the prodigious career of Ibermex-Kendi,

the founder of the BU Center for Anti-Racist Research, he is the author of a bunch of really not

very good books, and he speaks nonsense for a living. The nonsense that he speaks is all about how

America is deeply and irrevocably racist. He wrote most famously

a book called Stamped from beginning the definitive history of racist ideas in America about how

America was literally racist in all of its iterations from the very beginning that is up to and

including all of the constitutional protections of the Bill of Rights. He also wrote a book called

How to Be an Anti-Racist. And he now has a podcast called Be an Anti-Racist. So what exactly does this genius say about racism? Well, he can't really define the term. He just knows that racism exists wherever there is a disparity. The direct quote from him, as an anti-racist, when I see racial disparities, I see racism, which is unbelievably stupid. And you might think that it's genius. It's really, really stupid. Let me give you an example how stupid that is. The vast majority of the NBA is black. That is a massive racial disparity. Only 13% of the American population is black. The vast majority of the NBA players are black. Does this mean that there has been some sort of deep and abiding racism in the NBA to make all of that happen? Conversely, in hockey, virtually all the players are white.

Does that mean there's a deep and abiding racism that exists at the root of hockey? And that

is why there's just not that many black hockey players playing at the NHL level? Of course not.

It's incredibly silly. If you see, for example, that 99% of men

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