Ibram Kendi Claims Sex Offender Who Attacked Kyle Rittenhouse Was ‘Antiracist’ ‘Demonstrator’
“Reasonable people can disagree on whether it was wise for a teenager to walk around a volatile situation with a gun, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore basic facts.”
He also implies that Trump’s father was in the KKK, an outrageous suggestion.
The College Fix reports:
Ibram Kendi: Pedophile who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse was ‘antiracist’ ‘demonstrator’
Ibram Kendi’s new book treats a convicted child sex offender better than it treats Donald Trump’s father.
In “Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age,” Kendi briefly discusses the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wis. I am currently reading the book and will publish a longer review in the near future, but in the meantime something stood out as worth highlighting.
In the book, Kendi criticizes Tucker Carlson for interviewing and praising Kyle Rittenhouse.
According to Kendi’s version, “Rittenhouse traveled from his Illinois hometown to Kenosha, Wisconsin,” and eventually “shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber.”
The Howard University history professor describes these two men as “antiracist white demonstrators who tried to disarm [Rittenhouse].”
The passage suggests Kendi never followed the trial or read into it all.
First, Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha where his dad lived.
Contrary to the claims of leftist, Rittenhouse was not simply traveling around looking to get into fights, but was concerned about one of his hometowns. Reasonable people can disagree on whether it was wise for a teenager to walk around a volatile situation with a gun, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore basic facts.
That of course is what Kendi does in his whitewashing of history. Rosenbaum was not simply a peaceful American trying to “disarm” Rittenhouse. He was a convicted sex offender who clearly had anger issues. (Kendi also criticizes Viktor Orban later in the book for creating a searchable database of sex offenders).
Videos that emerged following the shooting show Rosenbaum yelling “shoot me ni***” repeatedly toward someone in a crowd.
But while deceased sex offender Rosenbaum is treated as an advocate for racial justice by Ibram Kendi, Donald Trump’s father is accused of being a Klan member.
Kendi references a 1927 Klan march in Queens, New York where, he writes, police arrested Fred Trump. He does not give any further context to this statement. The idea of course has been planted – Trump is a white supremacist just like his dad who was arrested at a Klan rally.
While it is true that Fred Trump was arrested at a Klan march, there is no proof he was in the Klan. Rather, it appears he was in the neighborhood at the time and was charged with refusal to disperse. As USA Today reported in 2020: “There is no indication in the [New York Times] article that Trump’s father was a member or supporter of the KKK.”
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We’re leftists. We fabricate our own history, we fabricate your history, and we fabricate our reality. — Ibram X Kendi aka Henry Rogers
did kendi include the blk who attacked kylie but was not arrested ???
Do you mean “skateboard guy”? Whether he was white or black is not in the public record. The three men who tried to shoot Rittenhouse were all white.
he was black the video/pic showed it to be true as did the reporters narrative
and so no I dont mean skateboard guy
and not too surprising the msm has once again as they do and have done over and over dont have any articles on him…
and here we go:
Maurice Freeland, 39, has admitted that he was the one who kicked Kyle Rittenhouse in the head on the night of August 25,2020
Rittenhouse is charged with First Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety of Freeland, who was only known as ‘jump-kick man’
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-10217197/Jump-kick-man-filmed-kicking-Kyle-Rittenhouse-head-revealed.html
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-identity-of-mysterious-jump-kick-man-revealed
with the pic that I remember seeing
That is true. “Antiracist” is a specialized term that Kendi has pioneered, that means roughly “anarcho-neo-marxist”. It’s like “antifa” but more tightly focused on race as opposed to other leftist shibboleths.
They were demonstrators. They were engaged in a violent demonstration of their rage at the world.
And they did try to disarm Rittenhouse, in order to subject him to deadly force. (They probably didn’t intend to actually kill him, just to give him a beating, but had they succeeded he might easily have been killed.)
It doesn’t matter why he felt particularly attached to Kenosha. The point is that he traveled there because there were people there who needed help, and he volunteered to help them. Even if he had no connection to Kenosha beyond it being a nearby community, that should have been enough. One doesn’t need a justification to go help people who are in need.
It’s not completely outrageous. He was arrested at a KKK parade, but we don’t know what for. That makes it possible that he was a member, or at least a supporter, but that’s only one possibility out of many. He may equally have been there to demonstrate his opposition. Far more likely than either of these options is that he was simply there to spectate a parade, with no particular feelings for or against it. So claiming he was a Klansman is scurrilous, but not completely outside the bounds of reason.
“They were demonstrators. They were engaged in a violent demonstration of their rage at the world.”
It seems to me that the word “demonstrator” has been emptied of meaning, since it is now freely used to shield violent rioting criminals from the consequences of their actions.
Not at all. “Demonstrator” means exactly the same thing that it has always meant. It has never been the case that all demonstrations were peaceful, and no one has ever had any call to make such an assumption. Some demonstrations are peaceful, and some are violent; both are equally demonstrations and there’s nothing wrong with calling them that. That’s why the first amendment specifies “the right of the people peaceably to assemble”, because there is no right to assemble any other way.
I notice that Henry (I don’t use fabricated names for low-IQ whackademics) isn’t mentioning the exact details of the sex offender’s crimes. Henry is doing his usual shuck and jive routine with the facts.
He was ANTIRACIST, guys!
He’s still dead, however, and rightly so.
“The Howard University history professor describes these two men as “antiracist white demonstrators who tried to disarm [Rittenhouse].”
So?
Lots of “antiracists” are pure scum. Quite possibly most. What’s his point?
Exactly. I was already happy they were dead. No need for kendi to add reasons.
Book heading to remainder rack in 3, 2, 1 . . .
“Disarm” is an interesting way to describe attempting to murder someone by chasing him through the streets and attacking him. Ok, so the guys were anti racist demonstrators. What does that have to do with anything. Someone needs to look into who is funding this idiots latest “center” at the university.
They weren’t necessarily attempting to murder him. They were attempting to disarm him, which would have left him vulnerable to force and at risk of being murdered. Attributing to them an actual intent to murder him goes beyond the evidence. And it’s irrelevant; he was in credible fear of serious injury, and that is enough to justify his actions in self-defense.