Ibram X. Kendi: I Suspect Sen. Cruz Didn't Read "How To Be An Antiracist"
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- Watching Sen. Ted Cruz criticize one of his books during the confirmation hearing for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not deter author Ibram X. Kendi from pursuing his mission to encourage all Americans, especially children, to learn how to be antiracist. Check out Kendi's two latest books, "Goodnight Racism" and "How to Raise an Antiracist," available everywhere now. #Colbert #GoodnightRacism #IbramXKendi
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It's always a joy to go back to these interviews when the grifters are exposed.
Can you explain what makes Ibram X. Kendi a grifter?
@@Lia-zw1ls7tz7o his fucking institute lst 45 million
His center took millions of dollars and produced nothing.
@@Lia-zw1ls7tz7o
@Lia-zw1ls7tz7o Making money off a make believe issue is a big problem for his sponsors. That's why they're dropping like flies and I applaud that.
I think this obsession with race and racism is what keeps it alive
Definitely.
All these race hustlers and the fools who praise them are repulsive
Yup exactly
or possibly the lack of conversation and dismissiveness from the majority of Americans.
@@bankstone1 lol 😂 it’s all we ever talk about!
@@bankstone1 and who the f wants their whole life and world to be just about race
Morgan Freeman said in an interview that "Today racism is a good excuse for not getting there" and "If you want to end racism, stop talking about it".
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.” Rushdie
That isn't very woke.
@Thunk Junk Unfortunately woke means turning logic off and supporting a herd mentality of compliance with the narratives
Your profile shows that all you do is comment on videos of Ibram X Kendi. At least 6 I can see. You okay my guy?
@@TheGalimatiasShow How can you see where his comments are?
@Audrey La Point Only comment on Henry Roger's videos? You're not much of an observer but thanks for playing..
Fans of Henry Roger's were never known to be too bright..
Does this sound like we just want to teach history in schools?
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
Absolutely not.
I cant believe that this guy is the focus of so many educated liberal's praise. Regardless of whether people agree that "perpetual revenge" is the best approach to discrimination...nothing about this guy's writings or speaking appearances is impressive.
I cant blame him for cashing in but he really seems to believe the hype. Yuck
Yep that's what he thinks. I don't think he thinks any further ahead than were his eyesight starts falling him. What he is proposing is an endless grievance loop between people that look different than each other.
Ms. Jackson's nomination was never in jeopardy. Getting attacked by Cancun Cruz is a sure sign that you're on the right side of history!
CANCUN CRUZ!!!🤣🤣🤣
You nailed it!👍
He was trying to appeal to his dumb base.
@@escutus I'll be more specific, and say that his base is unworldly and uneducated, and because of that, fearful.
@@cc1k435 Yes. They've been frightened ever since the day they found out we white folks aren't going to be the majority. Then Obama was elected and re-elected and they got REALLY scared, scared enough to follow an ideologue.
I once asked a mixed race classmate who he identified with when we learned about the history of the United States of America in school and he said something that really stuck with me... He said:
The soul doesn't have a color or a race.
After that, I no longer thought of myself as a wouldabeen slave or a wouldabeen slave owner, I thought of myself as an American that uses knowledge of the past to improve the future. All information is knowledge, the more knowledge you have the greater your chances of achieving wisdom. Anyone who tries to keep you from getting information isn't protecting you, they are enslaving you with ignorance.
very correct.
True, cuz I'm fully bl×ck but have blonde hair and blue eyes.
@@satiricalmixedkid5230 uuuh... I hope that was satire.
David, you mentioned wisdom, you would be wise to read proverbs 1:7, um..so wouldn't everyone else!
Dude the number of times I could give a context to how I'm not a white racist is endless. Just enough with the talking about race
Irony has died a racist talking to a former comedian. Thank God for the writers strike.
“After suddenly laying off over half his employees last week and with his center producing almost nothing since its founding,” writes David Decosimo in the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Kendi is now facing an investigation and harsh criticism from numerous colleagues complaining of financial mismanagement, dysfunctional leadership, and failure to honor obligations attached to its millions in grant money.”
He is right, I am 65 and learned all about racism and abolitionists in the 60s. I have always identified with the abolitionists and the freedom fighters. I just love his message. Stay safe.
Im 63 ... I was raised in a Republican family... Martin Luther King and Gandi were heros to me... I was told everyone was equal.....then discovered my parents didn't feel that way.
I was given a speech on why the races should not mix when I started dating......
..omg... Roots came out while I was still in school and mom is trying to tell us parts was exaggerated for the book..... my mom. told my sister I was a lesbian .... It doesn't matter but Im not. But lets just say Im not in the will because I was taught people were equal and shocked when I found out my parents did not actually Believe it.
My parents both Southerners settling in Tennessee....I have seen racism up close
look.up Pulaski Tennessee KKK
I lived there a while...
I have lived places that I was warned not to speak about my politics, religion, or let anyone know about my sex life then reminded that the river was close and people still get hanged round here...
I hate to think every right gained in my lifetime could be lost before I die.
Exactly. I was taught about slavery, and everything - not some of the truly heinous stuff - which I have discovered through my own research outside of it - so it can absolutely be improved on - but I never *ever* identified with slavers. Never. It never entered my mind.
Same! I always thought I'd be one of those white people fighting for equality. Which gave me drive to continue and fight when I see something wrong.
@@proudgrannyjoanfleming8860 I feel so much kinship with you from your comments. Some of us just can't buy into the injustice we're taught, right from the time we're children. Harriet Tubman was a hero. "Roots" was a favorite book, along with "Cry Freedom". While my religion was anti-gay, I found myself fascinated by all the biological reasons why that didn't make any sense, why there are gay and lesbian people to begin with. Growing up in the last decade of the Cold War, when there were a lot of messages in the movies about Russians being just as human as we are, I absorbed that idea that none of the people we're supposed to fear and hate could possibly be that different than my family and my community. Harriet Tubman was a real hero of mine, as were the Indians that the people around me seemed so okay with having murdered and pushed off their land.
Thanks for sharing, it's great to read about someone who had those sorts of internal experiences of crying out against injustices.
@@paintedwings74
I wrote this last week....I want to share this with you...
Every Right gained in my lifetime could be gone before I die.
Hows that for the change we tried to make.
.My heart hurts deep inside
Born a United nation
that would protect each citizens rights...
That's what the founders wanted.. It's why Lincoln chose to fight...
Now Teachers persecuted .... watching what they say...
when it comes to our true history or using the word gay.
the end of love thy neighbor
No Need to have police
the Right winged maga extremists
with their guns will rule the streets
..pgj class of 78
"Ibram X Kendi is a fashion statement, not a scholar" - Norman Finkelstein.
I think we can do without late night easily - the strike has proved it. We need informational game shows - we've been dumbed down and divided long enough.
Never has made sense to me that people take ownership of slavery when they never did it themselves.
Identify with the abolitionists, not the slave owners. It’s not difficult.
The Christian Conservatives have a lot of guilt placed upon them from the start. Fear of their ancestral backgrounds keeps them from opening their eyes because they know they'd feel MORE guilt. I wish I knew why they can't accept that piece of themselves and move on. Do better than their ancestors did.
Try to be a better person today than you were yesterday.
I think part of his point is how telling and how quickly folks expect to identify with the racists through history.
Yep, and the way its proposed is that your complicity is a function of your skin color even if your ancestors arrived after Slavery was well and truly over.
@@mokiloke slavery never ended. The 13th amendment is quite clear about the conditions under which slavery is permissible in the United States.
As someone who as a child read a lot of books that were, objectively, not intended for children, I’d say we too often underestimate children and the power of respecting them enough to let them grapple honestly and openly with the horrors of the world that we inhabit
I agree.
Shielding children from the world is a relatively new phenomenon. People didn't used to be hysterical about "protecting children's innocence", even less than a hundred years ago. It's a very modern thing, I'd say no more than 40 or 50 years old, this shielding kids and over-sanitizing their environment. And all it leads to is a bunch of kids with weak immune systems who fall apart at the slightest setback life throws at them.
Absolutely.
They are concerned about them learning in school . . .but getting shot in school is fine with them.
Damn straight, William!
Very interesting interview! I’m not American and had never heard of this author before, but hearing him speak here actually made me curious to read the book mentioned (plus, if Ted Cruz didn’t like it that’s probably a good sign lol).
Go check out his speech at the Aspen Institute - its on youtube
Don't waste your time. Read Woke Racism by John McWhorther instead.
It's a good read but anti-racism is dumb it basically says if you're simply not racist thats not good enough.
@@Grappapappa also a good one to read seek to understand and see both sides of the spectrum I've read both.
@@stephenper9162 Yes, I lack empathy.
I couldn't imagine the questions being answered any better than they were. I'm definitely saving this video for reference to throw in comment sections.
This dude is a scam artist
Civil discourse is being able to explain your opinion using information and knowledge without name calling or insults …. My guess is you know nothing about this gentlemen and his theories/perspectives.
@@karankapoor2701 Why do you think so KK?
@@Akhenatonio I bet the middle name also starts with a K. Call it a gut feeling.
@@skygazer858 There’s your problem: your first reaction is to jump to racism. “Oh, if he doesn’t like him, it must be because he’s racist.”
Kendi’s metaphors are very effective. Yes teach all our kids to “look both ways when crossing the streets of the world,” so they can see things that might harm them on the way! Isn’t that a big part of any parent’s job?
Most of the time, but parents cannot possibly be there for EVERY moment of a child’s life. They are also in school, daycare, summer camp, at friend’s houses, with cousins, or visiting grandparents. Parents do everything they possibly can to teach kids to be safe, but they also know they need to teach them how to be safe when mom/dad/guardians aren’t there.
Yes. It is. But it's also the community role. It takes a village to raise a child. Sounds outdated but still true and has withstood the test of time.
Some good parents (and/or uncles aunts, etc.,) in here I see. 👍
@@erinhilliard9347 Amen! I'm an admirer of Lenore Skenazy's Free Range Kids approach.
As long as "look both ways" doesn't become "look for racism, because it's everywhere". By actively looking for racism, one is promoting and sustaining that energy.
OMG! He said everything I have been yelling at my TV . why don’t their children identify with the abolitionist and why are they not concerned about how black kids feel on the learning about slavery and never the positive things like black Wall Street or accomplishment for hundreds of years . You are awesome
Not so awesome now lol😂😂😂😂 he's a grifter
" why don’t their children identify with the abolitionist" .... Because people like Kendi keep telling them that they are to blame for racism.
I'm 71 and was taught in school that slaves were all treated well by their masters, sang songs while they worked, that reconstruction was an invasion by horrible mafia-type carpet baggers who tried to destroy people (I can still see the picture of a scary carpet bagger) - very important that we learn history. And learning it sure doesn't make me feel guilty for being white. I just like learning what really happened.
I'm curious to know what city and state you learned that in.
@@ItzMorphinTime22
Los Angeles United School District’s history books taught that concept and I am 61! I can still remember the 6 nights Roots was shown and I was in high school. WOW, everybody was shocked to say the least. The DeSantis and the Ted Cruz’s of America has been trying to un-tell that truth ever since! Just two days ago it was reported a school district in Texas was trying to use the language to describe slavery as “involuntary immigration.” About 7 years ago it was described in a text book in New York as “a group which was rarely paid for their labor!”
Nonsense and the only people upset is not the 2 and 3rd graders it’s their parents.
What the hell school was that? Good grief!
Did you also learn that a decent % of slaves did not want freedom? Seriously go read about it, quite a few slaves would rather stay a slave then get freedom and have to fend for themselves.
@@brianmeen2158 Hahaha source: Prager U.
Delighted to see Mr. Kendi, an actual public intellectual and thinker, and anti-racist point out Cruz's problem - *Cruz is an anti-intellectual!*
This guy is NOT an intellectual. Sorry. There are actual intelligent people speaking about race, and this guy is hardly a light weight. He’s just popular.
@@5th-Season OK Prof.What constitutes an intellectual? Something tells me you like your 'intellectuals' to be white.
Trump is no intellectual yet he's popular. Loving your double standards..
"Racism is not dead. But it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists' "- Thomas Sowell
That one's for you Mr Kendi 🤡🤡🤡
@@kieronjohnson8834 lol. That got weird fast. I’d check out John McWhorter and Coleman Hughes for Democratic intellectuals of this subject. Glenn Laury is excellent too, but more conservative. And yes they are all black. And very thoughtful. Also, i am literally a professor.
@@5th-Season So do you feel this discourse should only be engaged in by people of 'intellectual' standing? That's the kind of elitism that alienates the people who need persuading the most. A kids book on the topic is more useful than a gaggle of professors, black or white. Academics lecturing high school dropouts isn't going to make a dent in racism.
IF Ted Cruz CAN READ, I WOULD BE ASTOUNDED!
SHOCKING NOTE: YES, HE CAN READ. AT A 2ND GRADE LEVEL.
Cancun Cruz is actually highly intelligent. He just happens to be a calculating psychopath and a religious cultist lunatic. Oh and a coward
He was a high level attorney.
He once read ". Green eggs and ham" to filibuster a bill in the Senate.
Texans love the fact that they sparked the Civil War...
You would think that the man who read Dr. Seuss during a filibuster would be able to handle reading a child's book about anti-racism.
Maybe it has bigger words.
Ted Cruz graduated from Harvard University. Henry Rogers (Ibram Kendi before the race hustle) could barely keep his job as a teacher at a city college. Don't ever compare Ted Cruz to that phony race hustler.
Very powerful, albeit too short, interview. I would love to hear him speak/lecture.
I’m sorry to say but this dude’s thinking is totally backwards. Coleman Hughes has challenged him many times to a debate. Of course, he always declines.
Much too short. I agree.
I watched this, bought "How to be an Antiracist" online and read it one hit. Confronting, timely, thank you.
When I was a really young kid, I learned about Native Americans - first in terms of a culture, like the Pueblo (there was a children's book series that may still be in publication); a year or two later I was learning about the injustice done to them by whites. I didn't feel ashamed of being white myself. Rather, I instinctively felt parity with Native tribes, with people of color - vilifying not myself or other whites of today but rather our white ancestors who murdered millions of non-whites out of greed. I wanted to believe that our history put us in a better place as a country than where we once were. I actually didn't start learning about slavery and Jim Crow until a few years after that. My point is, I think the conceit that young children learning about racial injustice would invoke some sort of self-loathing is misplaced. In fact, I even think it's silly. Parables and conversation about the subject are what avert that reaction, based on MY memories growing up,
Ok. But this book is for black children so I dont see how this compares. We want children to be little adults but that might be wishful thinking. When I lived in Canada at a young age I'm certain I didnt have a mindset of being different from blacks other than skin color. But when I moved to the states the racism felt palpable because race ie being different was much more of a conscious thought there. You cant automatically expect minds to mature with information. You risk creating a bigger society mindset of "us vs them".
Its *obvious* education on slavery creates racism from people of color hating whites. Adults cant even be trusted to mature with information and this guy thinks its a good idea to start early on "us vs them"
Very well said! We learned about slavery and racism in school. I never felt bad because I'm white. To this day, I DO feel bad about what my ancestors did to them and the struggles POC are still going through. He's right-and yes, teach about the abolitionists!
@Rob Van Gessel • When children are taught at home since birth how to hate someone they don’t know, no matter how wrong is the biggest challenge. Hate and racism go hand in hand it’s gonna take white people to reach white people on that note because are even the kids going to listen to anyone else?
@@johndor7793 Have you read either of these books?
@@adoxartist1258 nope, if you have your welcome to enlighten me, I tried looking for Ibrams book to get a better opinion but only found 3 page preview
I believe young people definitely learn from their parents when it comes to racism. Parents are NOT doing their kids any favor by teaching them to hate other races.
Those people are closet racists and are afraid to be open about it and this is how they protest without outing themselves. Its disgusting and despicable
you know, someone was talking about porno and extreme porno the other day and said if people didn't see it, who would know about it and want to do it.
It made me think that, if we don't teach about slavery.....maybe people will treat blacks differently without that knowledge, thinking that they are better than blacks......will never happen, but if we keep living in the past, we'll never move forward.
That last statement I wrote, was told to me while sitting next to Joe Clark on a flight....he was the Principal of the school the movie Lean on Me was based upon.....
The USA is sooo divided, it's sad.
Robert K, Hiding the truth about history will not solve racism. It will make us even dumber as a country than we are now that some idiots had the idea to cut civics classes from the curriculum. Less information does NOT make better citizens and in fact, racism would be even worse
@@cathywethington5913 It would seem like that should be true, but it's not working...
@@robertk617 no not really. When you know better you do better.
Not learning about history doesn't make you not racist or not discriminate . Forms of slavery and exploitation still happen today. We have millions of humans who are seeing refuge due to horrible treatment elsewhere. Hell we have similar abusive treatments our prison systems and agricultural farms where undocumented people work. Plus we do all of what we did during slavery to animals today.
But reading history is different from analyzing it. Understanding why it happened, how it could be prevented etc. Critical thinking
Let us have those politician's accountable for their dereliction of the oath that they swore to.
Vote Blue.
"Who's getting into positions of power, and are these powerful people and policies committed to equity and justice?"
Seeking equity and justice is not how these people get into power. It is figuratively establishing inequity and injustice that gives them the power they seek. If we had equity and justice, no one would have power over others.
The answer to the second half of your question is NO.
THE JEWS!
Professor Kendi’s books are so fantastic. We love Antiracist baby in our house.
When learning about the Civil War, I always pictured myself as a Union solider or someone that would help the Underground Railroad. Even though I'm white and from the south, I NEVER identified with anything to do with the Confederacy. If I found out my ancestors fought for the Confederacy, I would be embarrassed.
I feel like the people who have a problem with learning about slavery in America, Identify with the Confederacy and don't like hearing about how evil they are.
My younger cousin used to dress up as a Union soldier too and now he is very anti racist. He has a wonderful black wife who he met at a civil war reenactment, so they both love history. He also has a masters in history now. I am very proud and happy for him!
💪🏾
I had to mature into being an antiracist.,and it took a lot of life experience. What many don't realize is,even intellectually not thinking of yourself as a racist,you still have to deal with the subconscious programming that was being implanted since infancy. You have to pull it up by the roots. I've also had to mature into having faith in and loving humanity at large, because we're complex,contradictory and often obnoxious beings,but I still keep my faith in us when I see all that's noble and good in us. I try to be around animal lovers especially. They help big time.
Do you feel smart by talking all that crap you just said or happy to be brainwashed into the “antiracist” woke cult ?? Or is it clear that you have been conned into believing all that nonsense?
It is rare for anybody to grow out of their prejudices. Most grow INTO THEM as they age. They EMBRACE the "programming." That would be how it is that so many baby boomers have become everything they hated about their FATHERS.
I don't really understand this. What subconscious programming? Unless you were raised into racist beliefs, which very few people are, then you are probably not going to be a racist. Of course, you can be raised in a great and welcoming household, and still end up turning racist. (One notable example is a white guy, with an Asian sister who was adopted, and white parents. They were close. Then, one day, he ended up in the wrong place on the internet. A year and a half later, he had grown distant from his sister and was racist towards her. One day, he killed her to protect his parents from the "upcoming race war", as he feared they would be targeted for having an Asian child. Then he went to shoot up a mosque, but thankfully, people at the mosque bear him up, so nothing came of it.)
@@christopherbonilla9214 Antiracism is embarrassing. Guess that makes you pro-racist. And, of course, you, personally, are not a racist.
The YT algorithm keeps putting into my YT feed American reaction videos to the Father Ted episode “I hear you’re a racist now, Father”. I would like more reaction videos (a greater variety - perhaps some panel discussions including Jon Stewart & his specialist guests) and more and newer (and a greater variety of) comedic treatments of racism and of religious bigotry and for this material to do the rounds of the reaction video circuits online. Please do not leave it all to Father Ted (although I am delighted that the legacy of Dermot Morgan & Frank Kelly is being so widely appreciated). ❤️💐 Thank you, Stephen Colbert and team, and to all engaged late night hosts and comedy writers and performers who do not shy away from these topics.
Possibly the best episode of one of the best shows ever.
Intro song is Milestones (originally by Miles Davis) which is a great nod to Black culture! Thanks Louis and the band!
I'm a senior citizen now but I grew up on a farm on the Canadian 🇨🇦 prairies and started off in a one room schoolhouse surrounded by fields. I never even met a black person until I moved to the City for University. Fortunately I was an avid reader which expanded the liberal mindset I seem to have been born with. There wasn't a big selection of books in rural areas in the 60s but I stumbled upon several that were incredibly broadening. I can't remember the name or the author, but I was probably still prepubescent when I found a fictional story of a white man who mysteriously wakes up one morning in the body of a young black girl. It was written for adults and it made a huge impact on me because I was already considering the concept of reincarnation.
Reading of this man's struggle, now that he had the body of a different generation, gender and race than he was originally born with, was fascinating to me. By the time I finished that book it was firmly ingrained in me that we are souls and our bodies are temporary vehicles to experience the world through. And it is the soul that matters, that is sacred, not our gender not our colour, not our nationality. It awakened in me a life long passion for diversity, or as my Grandmother used to say (usually while trying to convince me to help her re-position her living room furniture once again) "variety is the spice of life."
Yes! Super excited for this Interview! Thank you gentlemen! 🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Well said! Racism exists no matter how much you shield the kids from it. It's important for the kids to know and recognize those who are on their side. Then there's also the part about being opened to discussion without judgement. We are a mixed Asian family, our kid learned about black and white people from school, and he was really confused about which one we are. So, we needed to do the whole talk about there are more than just 2 groups and there are many more in betweens/more than one.
Exactly! Looking at movies on CZcams, I get the impression that this country is populated by African Americans & White Americans. Looking for representation of myself as a Mexican Indigenous person whose people have been here FOREVER mixed with European immigrants who landed on these shores two or three generations ago, I DON’T SEE ME. I DO NOT SEE XICANX. Where are the Chicanas?
Recently, I have been glad to see more Asian representation. Thank heavens also for programming such as Gentefied and Reservation Dogs. In the late 1990s/ early 2000s in Houston, I ran with the writers’ group Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say. Our constant question was WHERE ARE WE? We are not REPRESENTED in THE MEDIA.
SO WE MADE OUR OWN, honor our own, ongoing celebration of books published … the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has recently opened The Guadalupe Bookstore in a book desert where El Librotraficante Tony Diaz presented & video-documented the amazing poeta Claudia Cantu Luna! The work can be seen linked to Nuestra Palabra or GCAC’s The Guadalupe Bookstore.
Stephen Colbert, how about interviewing Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante?! DemocracyNow’s Amy Goodman has already interviewed Tony. ¡Ándale!
If you tell kids to see racism everywhere they'll become spiteful and vindictive, thats it. Kendi literally said 'the only way to fight past discrimination Is through present discrimination'. He's a racist and an intellectual lightweight
Excellent!
"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
This Kendi guy is a textbook example of the above quote. The fact that he has even an ounce of influence in our society is disturbing. How can anyone not see that he profits by intentionally stoking the flames of racial division? He doesn't want it to end.
Vote Republican across the board to restore sanity - and racial unity - to our country.
Can I just say, Mr. Kendi gives me such good vibes. I never even say that, but there's no other way for me to express it. He's so calm and intelligent, and he's passionate. We need more people like him. Many more.
I just put two and two together that this man wrote both the kids book and the book I read as part of getting a graph of the landscape when I was doing my e2 visa stuff. Very brilliant man and of course Ted Cruz wouldn't want to read something that may inspire him to do any work. You should read his books if you haven't, the first one 'Stamped in Racism', they helped me just run a better and more efficient business. His writing is in a way where I was able to read the work and translate and understand based on my own experiences and then have the tools to be able to essentially see clearer. Being able to design projects that complement the and positively reinforce the strengths of employees is a gold standard for delegation of task's. The second book, the Anti-Racist one, It helped me develop ways to de-escalate misunderstandings and recognize the difference between that and malice. I have no idea what the kids book is like since I associated the two Ibram Kendi's as the same person today. Like those books were of more use for team cohesion than management seminars and this odd course I tried out. The one thing I would recommend is reading it while asking your self why something is the way it is, taking a guess and then when you read it compare your answer with what's written. Then repeat until ya get bored. Had to drop a book rec since you described his prose pretty spot on.
Saying a family should be rejected simply because white parents adopted haitian children doesn’t really give me good vibes.
@@jacksoncowsert6964 can you elaborate?
@@JennerallyAnxious no.
@@jacksoncowsert6964 why? I'm legitimately curious. Is that a bad thing
You can actually see him contemplating his answers as he speaks. I wish more people would do that before they opened their mouths. Our mouths should always be one step behind our thoughts. The moment our mouths run faster than our thinking is the moment we say dumbass stuff.
Amen to that!
Amen!
This 🤡 can't even debate others
Amen.
Seems like only the smart and thoughtful one does that...... good example Obama vs Trump ..... one is articulate and the other one is gibberish rubbish
I love the title goodnight racism. I only worry the book will be banned from our schools.
If Ted Cruz had made such a blatant mistake in using any of my work, I'd be laughing my ass off so hard it'd actually hurt...
Arguably the greatest grifter of the 21st century.
Which one? The guest or host?
@@abefroman8821Kendi.
My family raised me with access to the best scientific information especially regarding human evolutionary and taught me early on that we are all equal as humans and the most important thing to show your humanity is to show compassion and empathy to humanity. I truly feel like something in republicans/conservatives has to be broken to feel so little in the way of love for their neighbors. Especially when they claim to follow a teacher who said to even love your enemies. Those who seek to rule over others with racism and misogyny and fear must be cast down.
Amen
So you are saying that those who were burning American streets and looting in 2020 under pretext of racial discrimination are the guy guys? And those who wants to kill unburned are also actually the good people?
@@irvingwashington8638 atheists are the good people. Neofascist conservative Christians have no humanity or morals. If Jesus can just forgive you anything if you ask them everything is permitted. Society creates laws, they change as people hopefully become more moral. The legacy of religion, especially Christianity is to hold back progress on moral and scientific reform.
You are good man
We often say we were taught that all men are the same but when the time comes, it will still be your life and prosperity and that of your family and those you care about that you will prioritize when needed. You only delude yourself as being a wonderful altruistic person. Altruism does exist but we would still prefer ourselves and those we care for to live and prosper above others.
"I would define (racism) as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas." !?!
Racism, institutional and systematic, is illegal. The fact that it exists in undeniable, but to use it as cudgel to drive popular discourse, or re-write history, is simply wrong
I'd recommend watching the web chats between African American scholars Glenn Loury and John McWhorter, who take issue with Kendi's work because of its divisiveness and identitarian bent.
Bravo. Start Here.
It’s been a long time belief of mine that racist act come from envy of talent, strength, intelligent and here you are proving it Thanks for your wonderful works
Yeahh just like those thugs from BLMs
Remember the video of the two toddlers reuniting, running toward each other and hugging with joy? That is the prime example!
“It’s a couple hundred pages.” Awesome 🔥🔥🔥🔥!
Colbert has become a sad, sad shadow of his former self
at the end the point he raised should have been the main interview LMAo he looked stunned also when they cut it off 😂
If this were Helen Mirren or Jeff Bridges, you can expect to have 3, 8 minutes videos, because those would be 'important' topics to discuss, not something as pedestrian as racism.
@@peterporkeresq.2817 voting rights are hugely impacted by racism and some cases finacial so i don't see your argument🤕
@@pier-cmunez892
Being facetious ...
@@peterporkeresq.2817 i know but its too crazy to understand
Cruz must have read "How to be an Antichrist" by mistake.
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If you look at policies on a national level, you won't see much progress but If you look on a local level or even state level, that's where we can make the most impact.
I’d really love to hear a counter argument to his point on letting white kids identify with abolitionists lol.
From who
@@manueldg5177 From racists silly. And that's the entire point. Because how does one argue against letting white kids identify with abolinitists except people who actively support and vehemently desire the enslavement of an entire demographic, and to be able to teach white children that that's okay. That's the point. To make these people see that what their advocating for is a return to slavery and a right to teach white children that it's okay to subjugate and enslave other people when it isn't. It'd be the most dangerous mental gymnastics any of them has ever had to perform - guaranteed. But it would be entertaining.
@@manueldg5177 preferably an intelligent, articulate, and compassionate person.
Kendi counters it with his own beliefs. He promotes racially discriminating against white kids .
No counter-argument is necessary, because he's telling lies.
Nobody has any objections to teaching about slavery, and that is not the goal.
Their actual goals include such things as (all real examples):
- Lying about the prevalence of racist behaviours and actions
- Forcing companies to hire lesser-qualified people so long as they are not white or Asian
- Eliminating gifted programs because people who are not white or Asian get into gifted programs less often
- Requiring firefighters to read "how to be an anti-racist" and answer questions about it to get a job at the Seattle fire department
- Admitting students to prestigious programs with much lower standards based on their race
- Preventing the police from enforcing the law because arresting criminals impacts some racial groups more than others
- Encouraging looting and theft, and decriminalizing shoplifting
- Suppressing news stories about black people who mass murder white people
- Attacking any positive enjoyment of European culture or history
- Revising European art, fiction and history
- Legally prosecuting a white teenage girl for posting her deceased friend's favourite rap song, because the rap song contained the N-word
- Lining white kids up at the front of class in high school and asking them whether they feel bad about their "privilege"
And so on.
Really cool seeing him on here. I spent a semester studying the nature and history of racism and his works were featured frequently.
He's an immensely thoughtful and cerebral man and as a straight white American man, I really appreciate the depth he goes into the subject to help me understand.
LOL
Like that Myles Davis intro for Mr., Kendi!
He needed to acknowledge that fabulous jazz intro!!!!🎶🎶🎶♥️‼️
People who claim that teaching kids about racism is bad because it makes the kids feel bad, doesn't understand the point.
Them feeling bad is important, that's how you teach them something was bad and why it's not okay.
With that logic, we shouldn't be teaching them about looking both ways because it means talking about being hit by cars...
Racism isn't going to end because they refuse to talk about it, it's only going to allow it to fester and grow do to ignorance.
Should they feel responsible is the question. Are they guilty of sin because of their race?
@@emmeteeny They should feel in the very least to learn about the issues and the advantage they have and to make wrongs right and the world more equal
Say you are around when child labor was a problem. Do you say well I am not fully aware of it and do not employ children so I am not responsible?
Why should I care?
@@jgaffney567 That's not what I asked. Are they guilty of sin because of their race? Should they feel responsible for what people who looked like them did in the past?
@@emmeteeny Well who say it was an attempt to find guilt? Becoming aware is not an attempt to find guilt.
@@jgaffney567 Ibram believes in fixing past prejudice with present prejudice. His isn't a safe, colourblind approach to solving racism. So the question is whether he believes white children should be made feel personally responsible for the sins of the past. I'd like to know
Thank you, Mr. Kendi, we need to hear more about this. Also, just as an aside, I wrote a book several years ago about how young children (3, 4 and 5 year-olds) understand and make use of racism and other racist ideologies.
Thanks again! Your work is very, very important.
Did you mean racist ideologies being spread by Kendi and DiAngelo.
Hi Debra- What is the name of your book? I’d like to share it with my grandchildren . :)
The First R, How children learn race and racism.
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Mark Twain said “it is easier to fool people than to convince people they have been fooled!” America still struggling to fix stupid and the struggle is real 🤦♀️!
Your work is very, very important as well Debra VanAusdsle…May you always walk in Jah’s light…
This aged like sour milk.
I read his book. Very good read and very important for what's going on in our society 👏 👍
Waste of time. Read Woke Racism by John McWhorther instead.
@@Grappapappa McWhorter is for White racists.
I read it too. It was hard but it really helped me ask better questions.
It was a disaster. False dichotomies, sweeping generalizations, and openly advocating for discrimination on page 19! Did we read the same book? Kendi’s writing is hot garbage.
This did not age well. 43 million dollars vanished. Henry Rodgers is a intellectual featherweight and race grifter.
Thats one cute story, and he seems like a great father. This was a great show!
This the guy who thinks we should do an anti-racism amendment in the constitution and establish a department of anti-racism which can unilaterally nullify all laws with “racist effects”?
It’s so nice to hear such a soft spoken articulate intelligent person. On another note when having conversations with friends and family many are fearful that the US will have a civil war within our lifetime. Hope things turn around soon……
Freedom
I've read about Freedom it don't compare to the life I dream about. People fighting a fight for the color of the flag. I fight for the right to be heard not bound not gagged.
Promises and beliefs from unfamiliar faces; Actions and words in their familiar places.
I'm asked to stand next to you in a war for morality. I ask you to stand with me in my fight for Humanity.
They want to put guns in our hands to fight in another man's land while we struggling in a fight at home we don't understand.
Freedom? Free at last? Please slow down, not so fast. We getting shot front and back at traffic stops not doing crack. Yeah we struggling in a fight at home cause we're Black.
So here we go all over again day in and day out wondering when our live's going to end it makes you want to stand and Shout, "We love just like you do. We have families same as you!" Black Lives Matter.
When I was little my mom said wake up it's a brand new day. I said moms have you been outside it's not safe to play.
I wake up each day with insecurity and a wet blanket. Dreamin nightmares of freedom is how I would rank it.
She'd say go to school. Make something of yourself. Get an education. I'd say I do my learning on the streets with trepidation.
We aspire to be heard although our voices may be moot. Being ignored until it's quota time. Bang! Bang! Stop or I'll shoot.
We live our lives in a land of hostility. Avoiding being on the 5 o'clock news is our reality.
So while they keep saying you're free at last, you're free at last, thank God Almighty you're free at last. We'll keep our representation of freedom with each other and our belief in unity with our brother.
So here we go all over again day in and day out wondering when our live's going to end it makes you want to stand and Shout, "We love just like you do. We have families same as you!"
Black Lives Matter.
You and I Matter.
We All Matter.
By Humble Driver
A Tribute in Memory of Mr. George Floyd
Don't close the door please let the light shine in.
Whispering sounds that echo off the walls.
Straps laced too tightly no room for me to move.
A blinding glance confuses me.
Words can't express the pain of false bravado.
Piercing stares from the tormented few.
All sides suffering
Can't take this life no more.
Nothing to chance for a man to break free.
I only need one eye to be open.
One ear to listen to what I'm trying to say.
Just take a moment to come inside and stand with me.
Everyday's a nightmare
I need someone to come save me.
As I lay distressed pleading please help me mama.
I see no beacon my life's growing dim.
Robbed of tomorrow can't help those who were chosen.
It's up to you where we go from here.
If I could rise I'd speak up for my freedom with every breath I take that God has given me.
Come take a chance and take a stand in harmony.
There will be no tomorrow if we don't unite to be free.
The violence that follows will only fuel their hate.
Take the path that carries your voice of change.
Let's lay to rest and and put an end to this shame.
Be the hope your children need you to be.
If I could rise I'd speak up for my freedom with every breath I take that God has given me.
Come take a chance and take a stand in harmony.
Everyday's a nightmare I need someone to come stand for me.
There will be no tomorrow if we don't unite to be free.
By Humble Driver
Rest in Peace Mr. George Floyd
Well said. Beautiful work, Humble Driver.
Thank you for sharing 💜💔
May we not stop until THE Dream is made reality.
I was around behind the door, racists existed. I did ask, why, one day to adopted family. I didn’t get a clear explanation. But, it never effected me as far as judging a person. I, only judged peoples characters, not their colors or ethnicity. I was the black sheep of the family.
It’s easier to be a sheep and part of that pack than choice, choosing character that is born within you and your genes that gives you courage to stand alone on an important issue. I have had the same effect within the majority of my family members as well. I am so sorry that you experienced it with your second family must’ve been hard take care.
See ....the Black Sheep...even our language tells us how deep we are stuck in a really bad idea...we have lots of work to do....but we can discuss it and begin.
What a wonderfully inspiring human being this young man is! And that includes his precious daughter. The world is a better place because they are in it. As opposed to cruz, who makes the world a much worse place.
1:20 is such a weird moment.
They pull out a "children's" book called Good Night Racism.
This made me laugh out loud at how absurd that it.
Then I realize people clapped for like 15 seconds at the mere reveal of this book.
It's so absurd.
When a rabid animal gets in a corner, they get more vicious. Never forget that.
Are you trying to explain the republican party or the current supreme court?
Funny, when I read your comment, I envisaged a hissing, snarling Trump.
Didn't the celebrities on "The View" spot Cruz on a flight to Barbados where "The View" has been airing. How many vacations does Cruz need and why is the timing always with a crisis, first the Texas snow and now the Jan.6 investigations...
Why can’t our government have all positions filled with people like Ibram? People who are smart, educated, understand the importance of research, want a world where we are all equal, know how to be a spokesman and speak the truth.
Sadly, Ibram has more power and influence as an independent author than he would in government. This shouldn’t be true but it is.
We don't have equal human rights.
I like this dude. Not overbearing, on point, fair, honest. Cool.
I totally agree.
He’s a communist.
@@markwarreneddy okay
Really impressive man. He’s truly changing the world and making it a better place. Thank you!
He’s a communist
@@markwarreneddy Meaning what exactly?
Kendi advocates for racial discrimination, how is that making the world a better place?
@@youtube_user meaning he wrote extensively on his support for Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis in his book called “Stamped from the Beginning”. Both Marcuse and Davis are known communists who wish to overthrow liberal democracy, ie abolish all police and prisons.
It’s shocking how many people support this grift. Astonishing.
This book Sounds like a great gift for TX Representative James Frank
Hey the band introduced him with Milestones, you cheeky buggers! He does actually look kinda like Miles Davis
You are a brave and calm man my friend...
Thats what makes him a great race hustler
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I ordered that book and it was on backorder for 1 month 🤣🤣🤣
Hey, Ted, how can I explain, to my smart grandkids, that what you did is not considered a crime of Treason? They are very Smart kiddies. Obviously, much smarter than your plans to go to Cancun, Ted.
If you don't understand the law don't expect your grandchildren to.
He has an incredibly beautiful soul. Great interview, thank you! Xo
I wish Jon Bastiste was there but any interview about this subject matter is good for me to see.
"It's a couple hundred pages."
Yeah, that's a couple hundred pages too many for little teddums. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is teddums.
Lmao, they are deleting all the people who comment how insane this man is. He is disgusting.
Hope is alive in America!
Cruz wears his racism like a badge of honor
You should have Coleman Hughes on.
Oh he'll never do it. Coleman Hughes would smash all narratives he sells on that show. It also shows just how dishonest a lot of these people in the media are. They'll happily present one side of a argument (the one that suites them most and agree with most) but completely shut out the other side from the convo.
colberts bloated ego jas reached the stratosphere. Time to bring him down to our level
Do you agree with Hughes' proposal that people who grew up under Jim Crow be paid reparations?
Or John McWhorter.
@@MrMalcolm900 That goes both ways
I'd like for people of conviction to stop being totally civilized and start calling people like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump 'scumbags', as they are. Stop being totally politically correct.
Being politically correct doesn't preclude being accurate. Donald Trump is a traitor. He is the only person in the history of the American presidency to try to steal an election he clearly lost. And he continues to this day to push the big lie that the election was stolen, despite the lack of any evidence. He should be prosecuted for treason, among other crimes. "Scumbag" may be an appropriate description, but treason is a specific crime, punishable by life in prison or death.
@@alwaysuseless Yep. Regardless of the adjective or noun, I want people to start talking about him in the criminal sense, and start now, before old age gets him. History is not going to be kind to him.
@@bumper1730 Old age already has him, he's just trying to torch everything around him before he goes.
@@hunterrgntr You know, his hero Hitler, the one tRump said, "...did good things"? Hitler ordered the total destruction of German towns and villages at the end. There is a lot from the Hitler, Kim Jong Un (a great guy, according to tRump), and Putin playbooks which tRump emulates.
@@bumper1730 Agreed. People give them a pass when they call them stupid. They are NOT stupid. They are cold, cunning, and calculated pieces of shit, and calling them stupid gives them the plausible deniability needed to further their grift.
no child should be subject to the sins of their parents...teaching history is nothing to be ashamed of, just teach your children right from wrong...TODAY"S CHILDREN BEAR NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR SLAVERY
Excellent interview.
Some great points here.
I love Professor X. Kenedi He has taught me what it really means to be an ally and anti-racist. He has also improved my daughter's life as it allowed her to explore different perspectives I had not been able to at her age.
I love smart men. ❤️
Children are better able to cope with understanding the truth than finding out later on that the adults in their vicinity have been deceptive their entire lives. It doesn't bode well for their rebellious years. I was an avid reader as a child; TV was not a pastime back then. I was born in the South by accident to NY parents. It was terrifying to see what was going on back then because of the outrageous behavior of hateful people. The color of their skin being white had nothing to do with the fact that their mindsets were evil. I was freckled and had no clue where I fit it; the naivety of a child. I was less than 10 years old when I read "Black Like Me" during the height of the Civil Rights movement. Fighting for justice was a mainstay of life back then regardless of how young we were and shaped us as we grew to adulthood. I remember reading "A People's History of the US" on the subway in college. I felt such shame that humanity could treat other humans with such disregard. If it would have helped I would have gotten on my knees and apologized to everyone of color riding with me for the sins of the ancestors. Instead, I devoted my life to service and kept on the fight for equality, especially for Black women who suffered prejudice for their gender as well. I was telling my adult daughter who is a Human Rights attorney that what hurts most in today's world is that every milestone we accomplished during those decades is being wiped out. It was as if we lived for naught. One Easter my family was vacationing in Florida and my son, a senior at Xavier HS, was assigned a paper on racism. When he handed it in it was 20 pages long, typewritten. When it was handed back his teacher wrote that he would have purposely failed him for length but instead he should use it as a basis for a Master's thesis. There was a tendency to say everything was copacetic for Blacks in the South but not it seemed in Daytona Beach in 2000; the place known for its biker fests with all that it entailed. I was able to show my son firsthand the cruelty of racism. It was Black College week, They closed the bridges to car traffic and would only allow the students to be bussed in; what a connotation to be subjected to on vacation. Shops closed up and wouldn't provide service. My son, soon to be off to college himself, wrote a powerful treatise after witnessing it firsthand. Experiences like this make us better adults where we grow together to be comfortable with each other and in our own skins.
Raphael "Cancun Ted" Cruz is a perfect example of everything my parents warned me to avoid.
Truth is there is only one race, the human race. There are many cultures and creeds and to put one over the others is pure prejudice. Righting the wrongs of previous generations is not a bad thing. It doesn't take away from "us" rather it should make us all equally "us".😸
Stephen, how far you’ve fallen
How could you have had this guy on your show? I am very disappointed
This man is completely possessed by an ideology. His true self as an individual has been snuffed out
4:28 This is a slick move by Kendi. It was so smooth compared to his usual speeches, I wonder if this wasn't a known question beforehand. He changes Colbert's question to a question about slavery. Then he fails to mention some other interesting truths about slavery: Africans sold Africans (follow the supply chain), whites sold whites, etc throughout human history. I'm fairly impressed by these quick moves on his part, even though I think Colbert handed him a softball.