Tag: antiracism

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Ibram X. Kendi
Malcolm Lives!
New York: Farrar, Straus and Girou (BYR), 2025

A fresh biography of Malcolm X emerged for youthful audiences, authored by his fellow X, the illustrious Ibram X. Kendi. (There are sure a lot of Xs here—is Elon behind this?) The think tank gig at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research didn’t go so well, but clearly Kendi is back to his major pursuit of writing. The e-book is available now—and already at an 85% five-star rating presently—though you’ll have to wait until May 25 to get your hot little hands on the hardcover version. (more…)

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Apapale Adoum

November 13 saw the annual confected commemoration of something called World Kindness Day. According to the invented non-holiday’s own Wikipedia page, “Kindness is a fundamental part of the human condition which bridges the divides of race, religion, politics, gender and location.” (more…)

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On Saturday 1 November, there was a mass stabbing on a London-bound train in the southern English town of Huntingdon. As news broke, the authorities braced themselves for the bad news that it would probably turn out to be yet another instance of jihadism. Yet within a matter of hours, the authorities were loudly broadcasting the police’s exceedingly hastily arrived at conclusion that there was “no evidence” the attack was terror-related. (more…)

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Edward Dutton
Genius Under House Arrest: The Cancelation of James Watson
Washington: Academica Press, 2025

Ed Dutton’s latest offering is a continuation of two of his favorite themes: the nature of genius, and the personality profile of those who suffer from the woke mind virus. In October, 2007, the two clashed dramatically when James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helical structure of the DNA molecule, sparked a moral panic and was subjected to widespread character assassination for making some empirically accurate remarks on racial differences. (more…)

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Constance Marten and Mark Gordon.

A recent British criminal case involving a white English aristocrat, her black rapist lover, and their neglectfully dead mixed-race baby, seems almost designed to carry a certain literary significance to it. The aristo involved led one of those lives you usually only see in novels, whereby the main character’s lifespan and fate is meant to stand in for the lifespan and fate of something far wider, like an entire nation, class, or civilization. (more…)

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The release of the new Jurassic World: Rebirth this week reminded me of the time in 2015 when a previous movie in the franchise was laughably smeared as being racist against Pakistanis. Simply called Jurassic World, some of the main celluloid baddies in this one were from a species named Pachycephalosaurus, [1] called Pakis for short by the blockbuster’s human characters. (more…)

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Joe Nickell

The recent death of Joe Nickell, the leading American skeptic of the paranormal, brought to mind a few questions about just what precise sort of things the committed investigator might have been skeptical about in life. Going around laughing at supposed backwoods rednecks saying “Hahaha, you believe in Bigfoot!” might have been OK, but skeptically questioning uncritical witness testimony about the existence and habits of certain other unlikely North American primates like Martin Luther King was quite another. (more…)

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The idea of the personal journey being self-documented on film is not new. Ross McEllwe’s autobiographical 1986 documentary Sherman’s March is a great example. McEllwe initially wanted to document the impacts of William Sherman’s campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War, but ended up making a film about all the women in his life and why he cannot find romantic stability. A clever idea, and quite poignant in its execution. (more…)

For the right price, Ibram X. Kendi will explain to you how everything that isn’t explicitly antiracist is racist.

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Not long ago, Ibram Xolani Kendi — formerly Henry Rogers — was at the cutting edge of the burgeoning “anti-racism” industry. He and other high-ranking professional activists already were treated as sagacious specialists in race relations and lauded as public intellectuals. Then his career went into overdrive during the George Fentanyl tantrum of mid-2020, followed by the media’s unprecedented outpouring of anti-white bile since then.

Had things continued on this trajectory without a hitch, it’s anyone’s guess as to what lofty heights he might have attained. Could he have followed in Barack Obama’s footsteps? (more…)

From left, lawyers George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit, Jr. at the Supreme Court following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on May 17, 1954.

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Jesse Merriam
How We Got Our Antiracist Constitution: Canonizing Brown v. Board of Education in Courts and Minds
Claremont Provocations Monograph Series, 2023

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . .” — First Amendment of the United States Constitution, 1791

“Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our diversity is one of our country’s greatest strengths… It is therefore the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality. (more…)

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Kyle Shideler, ed., Gabriel Nadales, Erin Smith, Matthew Vadum, J. Michael Waller
Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat
Washington: Center for Security Policy, 2020

A menace stalks America: Antifa. While this menace has rampaged across the country since Donald Trump’s inauguration, very little information has circulated about the movement’s origins, means of support, or ideology. (more…)