Woke, Race-Obsessed Ibram Kendi 'Disturbed' His Daughter Liked a 'White' Doll
Apparently critical race theory (CRT) guru Ibram X. Kendi wants skin color to be the most important attribute in people’s minds at all times. Heaven forbid children care about anything other than skin pigment. Kendi recently came out with a new book on how to focus on the color of your skin over the content of your character—I mean, on raising an “anti-racist” kid, which he was inspired to do after his baby daughter’s affection for a “white” doll seemingly caused Kendi to freak out.
“[Los Angeles Times, June 2022] Ibram X. Kendi has spent years studying racism’s history, and he is intimately familiar with its violence, horrors and brutalities.
So when he became a father six years ago, the thought of exposing his daughter to the legacy and realities of racism deeply troubled him.
The issue became more personal when Imani, then 1, became attached at day care to a white doll with blue eyes and blonde hair.
‘We didn’t know what to make of it,’ said Kendi, a National Book Award winner, MacArthur fellow and director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, speaking Wednesday night at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. ‘Was she attached to the doll and it just happened to appear white, or was the whiteness of the doll attaching her to it?’ he thought.
That unknown, and the possibility that she was drawn to the doll’s whiteness, disturbed him. ‘It’s what really opened my mind to the importance of reflecting on these issues, and it led me down the path to ultimately writing the book.’ He later realized there were only white dolls available for her to play with at day care and that she needed other choices too.
This month, Kendi published ‘How to Raise an Antiracist,’ a deeply personal and researched guide for parents, teachers and caregivers and a follow-up to his 2019 internationally bestselling ‘How to Be an Antiracist.’ [emphasis added]”
What kind of American even thinks about whether his kid is drawn to a doll’s “whiteness?” That’s some serious mental illness right there. I had dolls with many different “skin colors” growing up, but I never remember once calling them or thinking of them as my “Hispanic doll,” my “black doll,” and my “white baby doll,” even though those would all have been technically accurate descriptions. I loved them all equally, without any relation to what tint they happened to have been colored, and it never occurred to me to dress them differently or treat them differently. I guarantee you that’s exactly the situation of Kendi’s little girl.
Children are born without racism—it’s something that has to be taught. But of course, if people cease to see the world as a dichotomy based around skin colors, Kendi will be out of a (lucrative) job. So Kendi set out to solve this sad lack of racism in his baby by writing a book on how to raise race-obsessed kids.
Kendi has a history of jaw-droppingly wacky statements. Kendi recently compared gun control measures to the fight to end slavery in America. Ironically, the history of gun control in America has been explicitly racist, with pre-Civil War slaveowners and post-Civil War racists (mostly Democrats) resorting to tyranny and terrorism to prevent black Americans from owning guns, as the Second Amendment entitled them to do.
For those of us living in reality, Covid-19 restrictions were clearly authoritarian and ineffective. For those living in Woke La-La Land like Ibram X. Kendi, Americans who wanted their basic freedoms back were the same as slaveowners. You can always rely on Kendi to take CRT insanity to a whole new level.
From Campus Reform, August 2021, “Ibram X Kendi: Like slaveholders, those against COVID restrictions want 'freedom to kill and exploit and terrorize',”
“Ibram X. Kendi recently told his podcast listeners that the United States is still a ‘slave holding republic,’ likening the ‘freedom to enslave’ to those Americans today wanting to end COVID-19 restrictions.
‘When the right started pushing for the right and the freedom to open back up, I ended up writing this [2020] piece in the Atlantic that basically argued that we're still in a slaveholders' republic,’ the Boston University professor said on a July 28 episode titled ‘Prison & Police Abolition: Finding True Safety.’
He continued, ‘And what I argued is that the slaveholder, the individual, wanted the freedom to enslave there's no difference between that and the individual saying 'I should have the freedom to infect people. I should have the freedom to kill and exploit and harass and terrorize.’”
Except that lockdowns destroyed businesses—including black-owned businesses—drove up suicides, increased child developmental problems, and prevented people from going where they chose to go and doing what they chose to do. That is literally what slavery does. To the extent that Kendi says there are still American officials imposing slavery-like restrictions on Americans, he is right. But those restrictions—just like slavery—were or are being imposed by Democrats and other anti-freedom individuals, not by those who rightly want authoritarian, unconstitutional restrictions lifted.
I previously did an exposé on Kendi’s work, showing that it is blatantly racist and historically inaccurate (to put it mildly). Kendi aims to impose his race-obsessed view of the world on people of all ages, even writing a book for infants and toddlers called Antiracist Baby which critiques the idea of not caring about people’s skin color, saying, “If you claim to be color blind, / you deny what’s right in front of you.” Kendi also wrote a newer kids’ book called Goodnight, Racism, which appears to be a warping of the classic kids’ board book Goodnight, Moon.
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You—Jason Reynolds’s adaption for youth of Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America—praises avowed Communist Angela Davis, Michelle Obama, and the self-identified Marxist BLM co-founders, but bashes former slaves and black American heroes Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. The book claims, “though White people weren’t born racist, America was built to make them that way.” Both Stamped books rewrite American history from Prince Henry the Navigator up until the present, using a CRT lens to do so; “race and, more critical, racism are everywhere,” the junior version claims.
As usual, Ibram X. Kendi is not working for a more equal world for people of all skin colors—he’s working to divide the world based on skin color.