Ibram Kendi Claims ‘Leaders of Color and Women Leaders are Often Held to Different Standards’
“we welcome Boston University’s inquiry into the center’s operations”
This is Kendi’s latest response to the controversy at his Boston University think tank.
The Boston Globe reports:
Ibram X. Kendi, head of Anti-Racist Center at Boston University, defends layoffs and restructuring
Ibram X. Kendi, the embattled head of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, said Friday that he did not lay off half his staff and restructure the organization “out of financial distress” but to support the center’s long-term mission, and he asserted that leaders of color “are often held to different standards.”
Kendi made the comments in a statement posted to his Facebook page.
He wrote that the week prior, he “had to make the hardest decision of my career and lay off a number of talented and committed staff from the BU Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) to ensure our long-term sustainability and impact.”
Kendi said the center’s working to assist the affected employees and that “we welcome Boston University’s inquiry into the center’s operations.”
In response to questions from the Globe about the center’s operations, BU spokesperson Rachel Lapal Cavallario on Sept. 20 provided a statement announcing an “inquiry” into the center’s culture and “grant management practices.”…
Kendi, a leading Black scholar of systemic racism in the country, also lamented the disparate treatment that he said leaders of color are often subjected to.
“Leaders of color and women leaders are often held to different standards and routinely have their authority undermined or questioned,” Kendi wrote. “But I want to live in a world where all leaders of new organizations are given the time to make mistakes and learn and grow. … I want to live in a world where we are all about building and sustaining antiracist organizations. Until we build that world, the crucial work of CAR will continue.”
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“Leaders of color and women leaders are often held to different standards and routinely have their authority undermined or questioned,” Kendi wrote. ”
Boy, one is really in trouble if non-white AND a woman!
Interesting that “woman” is allowed here, but not when talking of pregnancy—it’s pregnant “people” now.
“Boy, one is really in trouble if non-white AND a woman!”
Yeah, you might get a free pass to become VP or SCOTUS Justice.
First reply to him “define woman” and watch the fun begin. For that matter “define leaders of color” then ask what Rev. King would think of his remarks
In 1965 Alex Haley published THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, with my approval, in “as told to” format.
I claimed that I had been a street hustler in Detroit before serving prison time — with a street name Detroit Red.
And what I learned during this period of my life, according to Alex Haley’s version of my autobiography, was how to lie effectively: The trick is to convince yourself — to really, really convince yourself — that you actually believe , in fact, the lie that you’re telling. Better still is to add in little details, most of which can POSSIBLY be truthful.
In this way, your interviewer will tend to be overwhelmed — and just basically leave you alone. The key is to remain calm, and to seem sincere.
Calm.
Sincere.
Not in any hurry.
And believe the lie that you know you’re telling.
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Kendi obviously has read Alex Haley’s telling of my life story.
Reminder : Alex Haley plagiarized most of the story that became ROOTS, and paid large settlement . How much of Alex Haley’s other efforts were his versus the works of others … we’ll never know.
Of course they are held to different standards. Lower standards along with set-asides. Duh, Captain Obvious.
Reminds me of the NY Jewish liberal guilt that I grew up with and is exhibited in “Annie Hall”
https://youtu.be/UukFueBo9bQ?feature=shared
Plot summary of the average Woody Allen movie: bickering Jews in New York City.
Sometimes he slips up and makes a great movie.
You stole my thunder.
I agree. They are often lower standards.
Talk is cheap
On Twitter, talk is… no. I won’t do it.
“said Friday that he did not lay off half his staff and restructure the organization “out of financial distress” but to support the center’s long-term mission”
So why did you hire them in the first place if they were not germane to the mission?
Yeah, wypipo are held to different standards, all right — management failures count against them on their “permanent record.”
Went right to the “whitey is racist” garbage but he got rich off that schtick so why change?
Yes, they are held to lower standards.
Yes, Henry you racist, grifting mediocrity. You’re held to much lower standards. And when even those are just barely achieved, every woke, white liberal racist claws her way to the front of the line to be heard lauding it like it’s the most historic human accomplishment of all time.
Hi E Howard! How’s your stand up comedy career going, pal?
Noone should get a free ride on any job because of their lack of competence
He’s describing what are called “AA hires,” but does he realize it?
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