Arizona State U. Paid Ibram Kendi $35,000 for a One-Hour Speech
“The university spent around $2,000 on radio advertising and the same amount on security for Kendi, according to additional information obtained by Goldwater Institute.”
That’s a nice hourly wage. I can’t help but notice that there were no violent mobs of conservatives chasing him off campus, like the left does to the right.
The College Fix reports:
ASU paid Ibram Kendi $35,000 for 60-minute speech
Boston University Professor Ibram Kendi took in $35,000 for a 60-minute speech, according to a recently released contract.
Arizona State University sent the contract to The College Fix on March 20 in response to a public records request filed in October 2023. The university never responded to a November 2023 message asking for an update nor provided any other updates up until last week.
The contract includes $30,000 for the speech and $5,000 for Kendi to travel to campus for the April 13, 2023 speech. Just months later, his center would come under scrutiny for allegations of mismanagement.
The public university banned outside recording of the event and only provided video “through a private transmission” with a password-protected link. Donors funded the event, the public university told The Fix…
The Goldwater Institute received the same contract after waiting nearly a year.
The legal group recently filed a lawsuit against ASU for its mandatory DEI programming.
The university spent around $2,000 on radio advertising and the same amount on security for Kendi, according to additional information obtained by Goldwater Institute.
“In the months that passed between the event and ASU finally producing the requested records, Kendi’s finances have come under additional scrutiny,” Goldwater attorney Parker Jackson wrote on the group’s website.
“Last fall, Kendi’s Boston University Center for Antiracist Research laid off at least 15 staff members due to financial mismanagement,” Jackson wrote. “But Kendi himself does not appear to be in personal financial straits, as he has made hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees alone over the past few years, in addition to his salary and book deals.”
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The grift that keeps on grifting.
DEI/CRT is such a fraud.
smh
When did clowns stop wearing a red nose?
“The university spent around $2,000 on radio advertising and the same amount on security for Kendi”
Really? They didn’t make Kendi pay for his OWN security, like they make Turning Point do?? What a man of PRIVILEGE.
This is nothing more than a slightly more sophisticated act of being urinated on by a prostitute.
Some institutions have too much money.
Past time to cancel ibram kendi for toxic anti-white rhetoric. There will be no reparations.
DEI- didn’t earn it. Maybe DEI Kendi didn’t earn his $35K speaker’s fee, but the university certainly paid it.
A fraud of the first order.