Well, well, well: We have reported previously about the race-hustling academic fraud Ibram X. Kendi (here and here, for starters), whose lavishly funded Center for Anti-Racist Research at Boston University came under scrutiny for not producing any research, and being mismanaged in the extreme leading to massive staff layoffs. An audit by Boston University found “no wrongdoing,” though it is hard to resist the ironic suspicion that this was a whitewash.
And now the other shoe drops: Kendi, who was seldom seen on the Boston University campus and apparently taught no classes, is leaving BU for Howard University, and—surprise—starting a new “research institute”:
Kendi, author of the bestseller “How to Be an Antiracist,” will start a new institute focusing on the global African diaspora at Howard, the prominent historically Black institution in the nation’s capital. . .
The new institute will research the African diaspora through the lens of racism, technology, climate change and a host of other subjects, said Howard Provost Anthony K. Wutoh, and bring on fellows for each academic year with projects they propose. The effort will be funded largely through donors, though Wutoh said the specifics are not yet finalized.
Hunch: the “specifics” will never be finalized. It will be just the latest locale for Kendi’s floating crap game
What about Boston University?
Boston University confirmed Kendi’s departure and said the Center for Antiracist Research would close June 30 when its charter expires.
How can Boston University allow such an important post-George Floyd initiative lapse? I thought racism was the most important problem facing the nation.
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