It appears that Judge Amy Coney Barrett has gone from a “cult member” for being a devout Catholic to a possible “white colonizer” for adopting two Haitian children. Where most of us saw a loving interracial family at the White House ceremony on Saturday, Ibram X. Kendi, the new director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, saw a possible case of effective baby snatching by “White colonizers.”
On Saturday, Kendi wrote “Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children. They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.” The obvious implication is that the Barrett’s may have used their adopted children as mere props as part of a possible effort to hide their racism. It was clearly designed to curtail the praise of the Barrett family by suggesting that the parents might be racists. Indeed, he puts “adopted” in quotation marks to suggest that some of these children are not really adopted but presumably acquired or snatched by “White people.”
After leveling that truly disgusting suggestion against this family, Kendi added “And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist.”
It is akin to saying that you are not sure “whether not” Barrett is a kidnapper while leaving that question dangling as you explain how the criminal scheme. It is an example how any notion of decency can be dispensed with in the criticism of conservative figures or causes. Once again, the only thing more disturbing than this outrageous attack is the relative silence of the media or Kendi’s colleagues.
It appears that it only takes a Supreme Court nomination to take a clearly loving interracial family to raise the possibility that the parents are craved racist baby snatchers. It is not clear if Kendi would have preferred that Barrett hide two of her children or not mention them to avoid any suggestion that they are mere props. What is clear is that he wanted to interject the possible racism of the Barretts at a time when others were complementing the Barretts and their family. He then expressed a sense of his own injury when his words were taken as an accusation of any kind:
“And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist/ I’m challenging the idea that White parents of kids of color are inherently ‘not racist’ and the bots completely change what I’m saying to ‘White parents of kids of color are inherently racist.’ These live and fake bots are good at their propaganda. Let’s not argue with them.”
In fact, many of us are not saying that Kendi said that all white parents of kids of color are racist. We found his need to raise whether the Barretts might be racists using her black children as props to be sufficiently offensive.
Judge Barrett has never had a charge of racism leveled against her as a lawyer, a law professor or a judge. While many disagree with her judicial philosophy, there is absolutely no basis to suggest that she is a racist or akin to a “white colonizer.” It is a classic set up to “prove the negative.” Prove that your adoption of two children from Haiti was not an effort to acquire “props in [your] lifelong pictures of denial.” As is often the case in the last few years, many of us are left simply dumbfounded by these vicious and gratuitous attacks. This (and so many moments) is best captured by the words of Army counsel Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954: “Have you no shame, sir, at long last? Have you no shame?”
Where is the President Obama speaking out about this adoration of a human and professor spreading such nonsense (turn a blind eye to suffering of others)? President Obama was raised by White grandparents and should have some thoughtful points!
What thought were you trying to cobble, George?
An Oreo raised by a Cracked equals a President of the United States. What could be illuminating about this nonsense issue written by the Professor?
Ah well, it might surprise Mr. X Kendi how many of us old, white, racist colonizers did not adopt children as part of our colonizing efforts. And yes, of course, the silence of his should-be critics is deafening. Maybe Spotify will fire it’s baby Goebbels and that will be ‘the’ public turning point.
Obviously ACB should have left the children to rot in the squalid environs of Haiti to please the black racists.
Allow me to return to an ironic little bit of forgotten history
When the slaves rebelled in Haiti against the French, their leader Dessalines presided over a thorough extermination of nearly every white person on the island, man woman and child
the few he spared were Catholic priests
you can look it up if you like but get ready to dig deep, google hides such things from people today
Deguello13 is our usual house troll with yet another unpronounceable name.
It seems that Ibram X. Kendi, the new director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is a person who easily has the right to adopt the ‘anonymous’ moniker on this blog.
The value of Boston’s University comments are on par with their awarding an economics diploma to Ocasio Castro. NOTHING
How are any Americans colonizers? Where are the American Colonies? Haiti was a French colony, but has gotten Billions in relief from the U.S. Puerto Rico? Colonies are exploited for profit, they don’t run up $72 Billion in debt and receive $13 Billion in hurricane relief like Pusrto Rico.
And I’m sure that it’s not half of what we “owe”. 🙂
Haiti’s Dessalines slaughtered the white people when he took over Haiti. One wonders if X Kendi would do the same.
I wonder if Kendi has spent any of his grant money studying why Black Lives Matter and Antifa are racist organizations? Or why democrats and most universities demand that black people have affirmative action because supposedly they just can’t make it on their own. And, perhaps he should study himself because of the implicit racist message of Kendi’s charge against Judge Barrett that white people could not possibly love a black child for who he or she is. My guess is Kendi and Al Sharpton are BFFs since they both have figured out how the drink long and hard at the racism trough.
all part of the hate filled Marxist agenda. look at Melbourne and London and the possible future here. No travel, no meats, no gas vehicles, Marshall law under the pretense of protecting the public, no congregations, 24/7 tracking, no free speech. Like Trump or not, he’s not a Marxist. Neither is Biden but he’s a puppet for the wealthy extreme left getting desperate to seize power, and good luck to all that enjoyed the freedoms of living in the US. We’ll have the Gates crowd vaccinating us, chipping us, beyond meats for dinner, elimination of travel starting with foreign countries, elimination of legitimate voting, working out of home so no cars, Monsanto grown crops, the UN running the world, war with China or Russia or both. Sad for older guys that remember the freedoms we had.
Amazon.com sent to my 3 year old in their Book Box subscription this month “The Antiracist Baby,” authored by none other than Ibram Kendi. This was the first month of my subscription that you could not modify the books in the box. Amazon.com has lost a customer for life.
Speaking of “colonizers,”
Abraham Lincoln would like to say a few words.
Abe.
OK, thank you.
Go ahead, Abe.
Ahem!
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‘Absolute Necessity’
In his first annual message to Congress on December 3, 1861, President Lincoln proposed that persons liberated by the fighting should be deemed free and
that, in any event, steps be taken for colonizing [them] … at some place, or places, in a climate congenial to them. It might be well to consider, too, whether the free [black] people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonization.
This effort, Lincoln recognized, “may involve the acquiring of territory, and also the appropriation of money beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition.” Some form of resettlement, he said, amounts to an “absolute necessity.”49
– Robert Morgan
Ibram X. Kendi is an anti-Catholic bigot!
“BOSTON U” is paying an anti-Catholic bigot? hard to understand how things work.
seems like there are a lot of Catholics in Boston who might not like this
but BU is “nonsectarian” and “methodist affiliated” Now let me ask as someone who has plenty of kin in the Methodist church and I have slept through many a service of theirs myself
Is Methodism a religion or just a social club?
What has Methodism ever accomplished besides boring people and stopping fun? Teetotalers, look that up
See there is no doubt that Catholicism is a serious religion. hence, those who hate religion, or rather, religions besides their own, will usually hate Catholicism
BU should fire her or get cancelled.
Why do you think that boring us to death, wasn’t their plan the whole time?
Methodism is so boring that even they agree it is boring.
They misunderstand why their populations are collapsing, of course, being Methodists, they ever agree with opinions more forceful than their own
https://um-insight.net/perspectives/controversy%2C-boredom-or-death%3F-why-our-united-methodist-church-is-shrinking/
these are the very sorts of people who are only intolerant of intolerance
imagine having that for a “culture” — no wonder they have spawned the institution that has degenerated into the awful and pathetic state of BU today
give me a mick brawler from southie as a friend, any day over these insipid castrati
What about all the Hollywood elites that have adopted black babies, are they just for “feel good?”
Frankly I am becoming bored with the comments from the stupid & progressive left. Besides raising the ire of reasoned people in their very small
(penis small) world they have just become members of the circular firing squad. Here is another deep diver in a pit toilet.
I’m pretty sure you speak for a majority of Americans. I’ve begun to think that boring us to death was the real tactic all the time.
If you need are reason that these people on the left should never have political power, this is it. They are insane.
Actually Ibram X. Kendi, it is YOU that is NOT THE POINT!
Ibram X. Kendi, the new director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, saw a possible case of effective baby snatching by “White colonizers.”
Are these people batshit crazy or just insane? Seems to me that it would take a RACIST to recognize ‘white colonizers’.