Ibram Kendi joins fellow racialists Hannah-Jones & Coates at Howard
By Stanley K. Ridgley, PhD
The Ibram Kendi grift opens a new chapter as the disgraced founder of Boston University’s Center for Antiracism Research finally closes and Kendi departs as the most illustrious of DEI’s fading celebrities.
In the wake of mismanagement and under a cloud of financial shenanigans, Kendi’s exit was announced in late January. I covered Kendi’s dissembling misadventures in this space here and here.
“I am departing for an opportunity I could not pass up, but what connected us at CAR remains, especially during this precarious time,” said Kendi here. But the CAR is closing its doors and staffers are moving on.
One gets the impression that BU would rather just forget the entire sorry affair. Why? Public Intellectual Christopher Rufo sums the Kendi saga nicely here, and you’d want to forget it, too.
Meanwhile, Kendi is starting up a new operation at Howard called the Institute for Advanced Study.
At Howard, Kendi joins fellow race grifters Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose name is inextricably connected to the fraudulent 1619 Project and who is now the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. Also on the Howard crew is Captain America comic book scribe Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose book The Message is little more than a speculative pro-Hamas screed based on his 10-day holiday in Gaza and Israel. He serves at Howard as the Sterling Brown Chair in the English Department.
It’s anyone’s guess why Howard University has self-selected to become the Love Boat of fading DEI celebrities, but nonetheless, this is where we are.