Boston University professor says Republicans are ‘party of white supremacy’

A professor at Boston College mentioned that Republicans are “the get together of white supremacy.”

In an op-ed for The Atlantic, Ibram X. Kendi, Boston College Andrew W. Mellon professor within the Humanities and Director of the Heart for Antiracist Analysis mentioned that Republicans are usually not the get together of “any group of oldsters,” however relatively “the get together of white supremacy.”

Kendi wrote within the op-ed that Republican opposition to essential race idea means it’s “clearly” not the get together of oldsters.

“The Republican Social gathering is clearly not the get together of oldsters. The Republican Social gathering is definitely not the get together of oldsters of colour. However is the Republican Social gathering even the get together of white mother and father?” Kendi wrote.

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He said that Republican “branding” of being the “get together of oldsters” is a “fantasy” that is equal to “the nice lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump,” including that it has been constructed on “false conceptual constructing blocks.

Kendi says that the “false conceptual constructing blocks” are “Republican politicians care about white youngsters,” “Anti-racist training is dangerous to white youngsters,” “Republican politicians are defending white youngsters by banning anti-racist training,” and “Republican politicians are defending white youngsters by banning anti-racist training.”

He goes on to say that if Republican politicians care about White youngsters, “they’d not be ignoring or downplaying or defending or bolstering the principal racial menace dealing with white youth right this moment.”

“As an alternative of specializing in this very actual menace, Republican politicians—to justify Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Homosexual’ legislation—have cited QAnon conspiracy theories about public faculties being overrun by youngster predators who’re ‘grooming’ youngsters to be homosexual. A spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis reframed the ‘Don’t Say Homosexual’ invoice as an ‘anti-grooming’ invoice. But when QAnon Republicans actually cared about white youngsters, then they’d be frightened about white-supremacist grooming. That is the grooming that folks of all youngsters ought to be frightened about,” Kendi wrote.

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Ibram X. Kendi at American College in Washington following a panel dialogue on his e-book “How one can Be an Antiracist” on Sept. 26, 2019.  
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Kendi says that “anti-racist training” protects “all youngsters.”

“That is anti-racist training, and it protects white youngsters—all youngsters—towards the rising menace of white supremacists, as I show in my upcoming e-book,” Kendi wrote.

The Boston College professor additionally wrote that the Republican Social gathering is making it arduous for people to study historical past.

Ibram X. Kendi visits BuzzFeed’s “AM To DM” on March 10, 2020 in New York Metropolis. 
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“The Republican Social gathering just isn’t the get together of oldsters elevating white children. The Republican Social gathering just isn’t the get together of oldsters elevating ladies, elevating trans children, elevating children of colour, elevating queer children, elevating poor children, elevating immigrant children. The Republican Social gathering is making it more durable for all of those children to study themselves and their histories. The Republican Social gathering is stripping mother and father and educators of their collective potential to guard susceptible youngsters from being indoctrinated by—or victimized by—the scourge of white supremacy,” Kendi wrote.

“This Republican Social gathering just isn’t the get together of any group of oldsters, however the get together of white supremacy,” he concluded.