Genuine question - has Ibram done a debate with anyone? I really want to see how he holds his own against any type of pushback. I can't find any debates that he's been in at all
He wont. He is the placeholder for those waiting to march white people into death camps. We are going along with it willingly. We gave up our fight for our people many many many years ago. its OVER!
Both of these people are clowns and Colbert is a little sychophantic infant. Kendi is causing tremendous harm to our great country. If this place is so freaking terrible Rogers, I mean Kendi, why don't you move to a socialist country where there is apparently no racism? This is a dude who believes capital gains taxes are racist. He's a fraud and is brainwashing moronic members of our society.
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
Kendi is just full of anti-liberal, anti-democratic ideas. His idea for an unelected council to enforce antiracism across wide swaths of society is particularly precious.
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
Yes! Just look at both the Egyptian and Roman empires and who made up the population of enslaved people. They were generally different people groups and ethnicities. Aside from that point I really enjoyed this interview!
There are so many different definitions of the word "racism", if you take it to mean using the biological/zoological term "race" as a concept for dividing people into categories and assigning them qualities and value, it's modern. Obviously the tendency of humans to see people who don't look like us, or historically in Europe people who speak other languages than us, as fundamentally different is ancient
If you know history, which most don't, you understand how intertwined the oppression of African and indigenous people are. Europeans enslaved indigenous people in the Americans before they started to farm Africans. Both Africans and Amerindians experienced literal and cultural genocide.
🍯 blood honey If you knew history you’d know how interwoven the suffering of ALL ethnicities, cultures, and races are. Do you need a reminder of just how infantile America and it’s issues are? How young the country is? There’s 12,000 years of human civilization that people are overlooking, you all seem to be focused on the past 400 years and not the fact that this has been occurring for all of human history 🤔
@@skelitonking117 Two things. Of course Americans are going to focus on the issues in America. The America's have had human habitation since at least the ice age, and some think S America has had it even longer.
Dude's real name is Rogers....he got like a 1000 on his SAT. This is what happens when morons are given spots at top schools as students and faculty not because of merit but due to skin color. Merit is apparently "racist." lol
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
This is really interesting, I have never heard the term "anti-racist". I absolutely agree, it is really difficult to recognize and actively work against your biases (especially when everyone around you doesn't). I will admit that when the BLM movement first emerged, I didn't fully understand it and even said "all lives matter". Until I listened and understood why you really shouldn't say that and now I wholeheartedly support BLM. It is hard to admit you're wrong, even harder to change your opinion. But that is the only way to any real change. And I do believe that most everyone is capable of change. Children might not be colorblind, but hate is learned.
@James Schultz *Est.1982 I agree, colorblindness doesn't help anyone but white people, again. Children see color by nature. They don't hate by nature. I also don't see myself as "woke" or whatever have you. Just a human. I judge by character, not looks.
Yes, friend; hate is learned therefore can be “unlearned”. All we need is to be open-minded. I’ve had open dialogue with open racist and sexist men AT the workplace. I was ridiculed for entertaining the conversation but I’m about understanding perspective. We have to listen to each other more. Feelings don’t materialize from thin air but are a response to SOMETHING. It’s just important to listen.
I see wealth inequality as an important factor in racism, but I also believe capitalism plays a major rule in maintaining race inequality. exploitation is part of capitalism
A system of exploitation breeds prejudice. The overlap between the anti prejudice struggle (anti racism, lgbtq+ struggle, feminism, etc.) isn't a coincidence. To fight hate we have to dismantle any system that profits on it.
@@0cramoi I"m an old man acting like an arm-chair protestor. I was captured by hedonism in the '80s and even though I can see the manipulation, it is unlikely I will step up to dismantle anything. I believe it is no coincidence how hedonism is everywhere in our society. Brave New World was a plan for the U.S. and not just a good read.
I think the whole situation has exposed what is wrong with capitalism in more ways than one. We are all being fucked by the system, some are just getting more fucked than others. And they're the ones fighting back and leading the rest of us. We are all fucked by lack of socialized healthcare, poor wages, and corporate power. And honest-to-god, the fucking argument is "Because you wouldn't want a black guy to have it, too!" Fuck that shit. I DO want my black brothers and sisters to have it. I want all of us to have it. Because it will make us all powerful.
"The activism" (and by extension, the sort that Mr. Kendi offers as anti-racism) "is a way for useless people to feel important, even if their activism" (read false gospel) "is counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell
HOGWASH.... BLM: "All lives will matter when black lives matter" REALITY: "That will only happen when blacks stop killing each other first".... Chicago... Detroit... etc... etc... (Don't expect respect from others BEFORE learning how to respect yourselves. That learning should START in the home. If the home doesn't have a "father"... the boy will find a "father" in the streets) THE PROBLEM: You cannot MANDATE personal thought. In other words... Hopefully, each of us were raised to know the difference between “right” and “wrong”... BUT if somebody is racist against me (and if I've exhausted ALL OPTIONS to convince (the racist) that I'm a nicest guy they'll ever meet) there's not much else I can do except turn around... walk away... and find better friends. It comes down to "personal responsibility"... no matter the color. You haven't convinced me of anything... by burning down the business I've saved for all my life. Just because YOU can't feed your kids doesn't mean you can destroy MY "American Dream" and force MY family to starve. Two wrongs don't make it right. BOTTOMLINE: Nobody is born a racist... nobody has to die a racist. Simply... give love a chance. Last I checked, violence and looting isn't a way to show love. (Dr King would be extremely disappointed)
@Amanda milson - How do you mandate an alcoholic from committing alcohol-driven stupidity? Professor Kendi is using that same logic to control racism. "How Anti Racism Hurts Black People - John McWhorter" ruclips.net/video/mT2rlJe9cuU/видео.html "Denzel Washington speaks out: Don’t ‘blame the system’ for black incarceration, ‘it starts at home’" ruclips.net/video/O0dCvQdt5XI/видео.html
@@gunuin - You discredit common sense because he's an actor? (Denzel talks about "taking ownership" for one's mistakes) Dr King would be disappointed that the Black Lives Matter movement has not learned a damn thing about "character" and "personal responsibility". - "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - MLK
If you want a real intellectually honest discussion on the complexity of racism and race relations then watch this instead; ruclips.net/video/pHGt733yw3g/видео.html
How can he be the nations leading scholar on Anti-Racism when he couldn't even define "racism" during a Q and A at the Aspen Ideas festival? You can find a video of Larry Elder reacting to that clip, that also features some wise words from an ACTUAL Black intellectual and orator Thomas Sowell, an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Oh and btw he has published 50 books!
Intersectionalists would say that only whites can be racist. The liberal position is that anyone can be racist to anyone else. The intersectionalists would assert that racism is systemic and people on the bottom don't have the power to be racist. Individualism would state that this is nonsense because we must judge actions on a case by case basis and not just reduce people to collectivist groups. A problem in the discourse around this is that the different factions have competing definitions of what racism is.
@@autodidactpolymath1851 No. Not really. The intersectionist are trying to redefine it on critical race theories terms, in order that other groups are not held to account.
@@HowardRhodes-e9n I recall him saying that even he was once racist but toward people of color (as the perpetual victims). He does not say that racism is possible against whites. Very problematic as there are many accounts of discrimination against whites.
I'm happy Dr. Kendi's book is a bestseller right now. I do hope people will actually read it and not just leave it on the coffee table to let others know how woke they are. And not just white people either. There are some worthwhile ideas about assimilation and internalizing racism that everyone can benefit from.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
Glenn loury called this race hustler an empty suit ,, he’s up their w robin deangelo,, grifters ,,what a joke , Stephen going to kiss his feet when done
My stepdad is a boomer. He and I just discussed how his parents opinion had effected his worldly point of view. We discovered that he was raised to be racist and he was unaware that it was so because he didn't understand it any other way. It effected him until he started to look at the world through his own eyes.
Sadly, as children we soak up whatever our parents and teachers ingrain into us, from actual ideologies to simple habits. There is no way to escape it barring extreme cases where social services come in. The important thing is to realize, when confronted by the rest of the world, that many things we held as truth have always been false (and that happens no matter what), and accept that some portion of ourselves needs to change. As Seneca said, it's human to make mistakes, but it's diabolical to hold onto them.
I grew up the same. Most important is that we learn from it, to not repeat it, and therefore not passing it on to our children. Good on your dad for making that effort to understand and change his views. Lots of older folks really need to do the same.
@@edoardoprevelato6577 Many teachers will treat under-performing students as lazy, without considering the student's home situation. Less wealthy students are more likely to under-perform. Hence poverty becomes hereditary and more entrenched in black communities.
@@NightingaleSong true. I'm white and not poor, but i'll be damned if all teacher-parents talks weren't all "he's smart but he doesn't apply himself". I never had a teacher i actually respected and admired until two years into university, the others were simply in the background or plain bitches/assholes.
As a boomer, that is true for some of us, but other boomers argued against their parents' racist ideas. Boomers (like any group) are not a monolithic culture.
"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing" - Dalinar Kholin, Oathbringer, Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.
@@oilpntr I will tell ya, due to a lot of personal BS I almost committed suicide and The Way of Kings, the first book, helped me through it. I know read it like others read the Bible. It means that much to me. Sanderson is also the first author that has not only made me cry but I still cry re-reading scenes I know that are going to happen.
yes but at least catholicism provides spiritual nourishment, communion with god, and a community of well intended souls. kendi and his ilk are cynical, divisive, and hateful
@@waffenwrapp62 Correct, Catholicism does not differentiate between the believers based on skin colour and the believers can achieve Gods grace through good works and prayer. This is not possible in the Wokist cult.
Stating that this video is actually witnessing two floating turds RACING towards the surface of a toilet bowl would be more truthful than most of what Ibrahim Kendi and Stephen Colbert claim about race and racism.
I have always enjoyed the guest interviews of scholars and thought leaders on Colbert. Sometimes the celebrity interviews are good, especially if they're another comedian but for the most part they're pretty boring, vapid and pointless so I skip them. I hope you keep interviewing important people at the same rate when you're back in the studio!
I can echo this sentiment whole heartedly. Some celebrity interviews get a chuckle or a genuinly interesting story out of them, but many feel pointless to me. The author interviews of the CC era Stewart/Colbert were pretty great, usually and tackled great topics.
Professor Kendi's work has taught me so much. ..."actually willing to admit..." That was the BIG lesson for me. Now, instead of hiding from my mistakes, I admit them. I speak openly about them. He's 100% correct, it's ACTION that counts.
@Dragonblazzer969 Why does it matter what intent people have to say? If you are fearful of voicing your opinions online because of the potential backlash then speak privately to trusted confidants. Not everything needs to be public. Then once you think you have a better grasp of the concepts then you can enter the public arena. Spewing factually debunked theories out of curiosity or ignorance is just tiresome. You can research it yourself. Not everything has to be handed to you.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
pretty bad interview. leading questions, not asking how Kendi has come to the conclusions he presents or how those conclusions are backed up with studies...
I would like to know the Doctors perspective on the slave trade that was happening in Africa perpetuated by Arabs. If he thinks that was not racism. And how that differs from the colonial slave trade. I so jot minimize our responsibility in the US, I would just like to k ow how he describes that slave trade.
He wont. It'll defeat his whole idea that the WORLD isn't and hasn't been racist. Just north America. We're not tribalistic by nature, racism originated in America... He's an Anti-intellectual bordering on skillfully manipulative.
In his book he refers to intersectionality and that arabs were working from a hierarchy of classism. Not racism, since they were the same color but differences in culture
@@pradoteach5509 They weren't the same color though. We know that Egyptians for example in the first centuries of Islam mainly took black (nubian) slaves
@@pheeel17 you don't know what you're talking about. Try reading Cheikh Anta Diop or Yusuf Ben Jochanon or J.A. Rodgers. Egypt was a Black land of Black people. Semitic people were slaves in Kemit (Egypt). Libyans and many other kinds of people were slaves in Egypt. Nubians were also rulers in Ancient Egypt. You need to learn more. Everything you know has been taught you by Western culture which is fundamentally anti African.
@@Monedgar123 free at point of service because it’s been prepaid ahead of time. For how much taxes are taken out I will disagree it’s cheaper for the individuals or else you wouldn’t see so many people flocking to the United States for better economic gains. You want to see what government controlled healthcare in the US would be like? Go to the DMV.
Literally just finished reading his book and it's absolutely amazing. Not only is it informative, it's really a beautifully written book and his story is so moving.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
@Erika Johnson Really? Well, Coleman Hughes, in the article I cite above, refutes Kendi's book with rigor and impressive persuasion. I would like to hear your opinion of it, if you have the time to read it.
@@megg.6651 i read it. The article accuses Dr. Kendi of cherry picking but cherry picks his words on various topics and misrepresents the thesis of the book. I disagree with the idea that screaning policy for possible racial inequality with an antiracist department of government is totalitarian. I have my own thoughts about how the chapter on capitalism is handled but I'm not at all an expert on economics. Overall I disagree with this article even if I will concede one or two points.
@Brian you're literally leaving a misogynistic comment on a two month old thread for no other reason than to be a rude to someone you don't know. But sure, I'm the over emotional one for liking a book.
I live in *Custer* County (one of many throughout the US) and it is overwhelmingly Right Wing, religulous (religion and ridiculous), Republican, ranch-family, racist, radicals who think god is on their side. Every day is a challenge. I am proud to be a supporter of BLM. I grew up in the South and moved up here to escape the racism. It's ingrained...
Yeee-haw we are back in the 50’s now people!! BS. Have you ever even stopped and listened to how racist black people are? For years I have heard it and what’s even funnier is they say it right in front of us because they know there’s nothing anyone can say about it because after all the race card is a powerful took
Somehow I doubt republicans make like a tough challenge for black people. I moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina and I think life is much much better there. I'm black myself.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
@@autodidactpolymath1851 I just finished that book. Amazing! Shawn dont listen to kendi hes a cult indoctrination leader and wants to arrest your development and control your mind. Im not joking. Go read liftons book on Thought Reform
“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
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago. Laugh and cry at that
I grew up in the South. And in listening to Dr Kendi, it reminds me of the mindset, where people down there might say something as, "Gosh, for a n______, he sure is smart". Then if they kept listening, they would either open their minds a bit, OR they would get angry and say, "he needs to get off his high horse and stop acting like that". BLM.
I’m not sure what kind of people you all hang out with but where most of us come from people are judged by their behavior and what they stand for, not the color of their skin. Also a small caveat...have any of you woke bastards ever heard how black people talk about whites? Lemme guess. In that case it’s deserved.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
@Dragonblazzer969 - How is the conclusion promote more divisiveness? That wasn't the message I got. Can you point out specifically where you got that message? Asking sincerely, and hoping you will answer.
@DumbelldoorYou've claimed this "divisiveness" several times.. time to explain yourself. People wanting to be treated better should never be divisive in its first pass. What he is asking of anyone is to actively try to make the world better, to actively confront bias, discrimination, unjust outcomes due to historical racist polices.. what part of that is divisive?? IF you don't believe in equality and equity, then i suppose it could be divisive to you.
Thanks! Wish more comments would be like this and provide additional, accurate information. This topic especially requires serious self-education for everyone. Much appreciated
Dumbelldoor you sound incredibly ignorant. Just watch the videos or mind your business; we’re here for education not nonsensical ranting. Have a good one ✌🏻❤️🤗
Such a wonderful human. His books are excellent. His way of looking at racism and becoming anti racist is what we need. It really makes so much sense. Thank you Dr. Kendi.
I studied at the St.George campus of the University of Toronto, i have a Doctorate in Anthropology, and a masters in Archeology; with a focus of Tribal movements across Western Europe from the Neolithic to the Medieval, and i can tell you with ABSOLUTE certainty, that Racism is not a new concept. America right now seems to be focused on about the past 400 years give or take, but doing so is not only incredibly disingenuous, but ignorant of nearly 12,000 years of Human civilization. Every Race, Ethnicity, culture, or system of belief has at some point been enslaved, subjugated, colonized, or destroyed by another; Tribal warfare has always been a thing. So to say that the concept of racism began with European colonialism is not only insulting your own intelligence, but is a completely racist statement in itself; Discrimination, racism, and prejudice is a slippery slope argument, one in which you’re magically stopping the boulder at white people. Tell me Doctor; have you stopped to check your internalized biases? Are you “Not racist”? Or are you “anti-racist”? We’re all human right? And those biases are subconscious, inherent, and intrinsic right? Or are you a pure soul? Removed from all the faults that plague the rest of humanity? Do you have no sins to bare? Doubtful.
While I agree with your first paragraphs ( though it looked different in different cultures / tribes /society throughout different times) I haven't heard anything here suggesting that Dr. Kendi believes he himself is exempt from any biases and racism or that only "white" people can be racist. Do you have sources where he asserts that?
@K V Western civilization. There are some black people who do live at and surpass the standards of white americans. Furthermore, the poorest among us are still some of the richest in the world. Of course slavery and racism in the system and its creators has created a gap - that's common sense. However, blaming EVERYTHING on systemic racism and ignoring personal responsibility, resilience, and ambition is lazy. Unlike that Smithsonian poster, there is nothing wrong with assimilation when you're assimilating into productive values and virtues.
Instead of lecturing us to stop tell us to stop saying the word "not racist", Dr. Ibram X. Kendi should instead advocate to end the war on drugs and other policies that don't work!
All men created equal... All people... you women and children again forgotten. We need to agree Black lives matter before we can realize anything else right now.
TheTruthIsRacist we’re not asking that they matter more, just more than they do right now since they’re considered expendable and killing black people is dismissed as irrelevant.
i have a question professor, were the african chiefs, kings or leaders that sold their own people to middle eastern and other slave traders, were they racist also?
I have questions about how a man can become a college professor in a completely made up and useless field can still convince himself he’s oppressed even as he’s on late night tv shows and all over the media circuit.
Kendi's preached his ideas but won't discuss or debate his ideas with any person that opposes him. Time after time being invited to discuss his views in an open forum but he has declined.
“When someone calls you out for being racist, you need to listen so you can change.” Yeah, but people nowadays think everything is racist, so I’m giving them the power to try to change me first assuming that they know what they’re talking about?! Nope, not happening. If this grifter wasn’t inspiring people to think that everything is racist, maybe I’d listen.
Dr. Kendi’s book has been a huge boost to the momentum building behind speeding up cultural progress toward racial equity. He found just the right message for the age: There is no such thing as “not racist” in U.S. culture. An action or an idea or a policy is either racist or anti-racist. “Not racist” is the same as racist. It’s simple, it’s definitive, it’s morally just, and it is consistent with the values expressed in the Constitution.
It's to be expected at this point, but I find it strange that Colbert goes along with stuff like this, because he is actually very brilliant. I cannot tell how much of the leftist groupthink he truly agrees with. I think he is smart enough to see through some of it, but I also would bet that he feels a lot of pressure on this very mainstream show to uphold certain trending ways of thinking lest he be 'called out' for questioning or appearing to disagree with someone who is so powerful and influential over many leftists right now like Kendi. He wouldn't challenge or go against the narrative and it really irks me that he would never openly disagree with Kendi even if disagreement was his true position. I think he's adopted some of the groupthink as a matter of survival since taking over this show which has a much wider audience and broader mainstream appeal (to people on the left). On some level he may have convinced himself that he actually agrees with it so it's easier to go along with. He was so creative and sharp on the Daily Show, how did he come to think the way he does these days?
If you read any of his work you'll find that it's more complicated than that. Parents are definitely strong contributors but it runs much deeper. Check out any of his books on Audible. It's worth your time.
No offense to any parent, plz. I am anti racist ... But I am scared to see my son one day develop a racist thought because of curiosity , while I was sure that "he was not born that way"... So I will teach him (3 years) that having racist ideas are part of humanity but ends in a horrible future for all races...
That’s part of it, though they’re also influenced by the TV and media they consume as well as their classmates, friends, and teachers. However, parents do have the ability to manipulate and frame whatever the kid experiences. Let’s just say that I have “I’m not racist” relatives and I had a lot unlearning to do once I got to college.
I was raised not to be racist. Then I met a whole lotta black folk. If your rich and don't know many black people but don't like blacks you're probably racist. If your poor, and have known many black people and don't like them, then your just observant.
This is only partially true. We have parts of our brains that actually have evolved around safety in what is often called "tribalism," or those that look like us, a kind of imprinting. Check out neuroscience of racism.
This is very cute. Almost adorable. An equitable society is not in the interest of the top 1%. It never will be. Who do you think decides how the society is actually run?
Very true. Also an equitable society is impossible, at least on any large scale. Anyone who thinks they can build an equitable society lacks an understanding of human nature.
There are people examining other people’s lives to detect if they are engaging in any actions deemed to be anti-racist based on this idea one can’t be “not a racist” and they’re then being labelled a racist if they’re not engaging in any actions. It’s causing families and even marriages to end,. Not everyone wants to be an activist and they shouldn’t be compelled to be one under the threat of being socially ostracised as being a labelled a racist, even if they’re not saying or doing anything that’s racist. What on earth has happened to the ability of people in the US to analyse an idea with a critical lens to determine its flaws?
To Kendi’s way of thinking anyone who counters his convictions is a racist. No room for dialog here. Bow your head and admit that you’re a racist and with those sad eyes he will accept you into his fold after you have repented. Sounds like he’s starting a religion. I for one am not interested in becoming a convert.
I would really like to know some facts on which these conclusions were made, and then I'll decide what I think. Bc ''looking into antiquity''....there was DEFINITELY a concept of both races AND even more importantly slavery, across several continents and races. Definitely. That is in archeological evidence and in some areas...literally carven in stone. So what you;re saying here, does not make sense at all.
There are concepts of ethnicity, but that's not like the concept of "race" that we see today. I would say to also keep in mind that any translations of things from antiquity tend to have a bit of the culture that's doing the translation projected onto it. For a modern example, we see that in louisiana french culture: the racialization of the term creole is a product of american projecting the racial binary white/black -> cajun/creole when, historically from the french perspective, cadien is a subset of creole and creoles of exclusively european descent aren't always of acadian descent. The point here is that the dominant culture doing the translating (anglo america) is projecting their culture onto another in a way that doesn't really translate any nuance. In regards to slavery, again, yes, there was slavery, but it's nowhere near the same scale as the chattel slavery of the atlantic slave trade. It doesn't make these other forms of slavery good or ok, but it isn't the same and the impacts of the ast and american and colonial slave laws are still around today. Even the anglo racial binary versus the prominence of multiracial identities in many creole cultures, albeit a somewhat more benign example, is a product of differences in slave laws.
What a brilliant conversation. I have to take issue with one point I’m afraid. My white son was colourblind as a young child. In his pre school and primary school life he was surrounded by so many different skin tones and cultures. He never saw skin colour. It was absolutely natural to him. We are Australian. So our treatment of First Nations people is on record and continues to be appalling. But my son didn’t see colour as a small child. When he was taught about our indigenous history and his bestie at the time was an indigenous child he wept for his lack of connection to land. That may be a very specifically Australian context but it makes me question the idea that kids “naturally” see colour.
'Racism' by that name is relatively new since 'race' is a relatively new concept. But discrimination and prejudice based on kind and other xenophobic acts against the 'other' are as ancient as documented history goes back. The Ancient Greeks called anyone not them Barbarians (barbaros) because all they heard when they spoke was 'bar-bar-bar'. And it made sense to be prejudice of the other, as back then most societies were ethnically homogeneous and the 'other' would often be a legitimate threat.
I remember back in the 80’s when I was working on my MAT, we watched - and re-watched - a movie about her experiment and it’s impact on her students. It had a huge impact on us as well.
I've never understood America's stand on the Confederate flag. During the Civil War the Confederate army fought to overthrow the United States government. They lost and yet people still held on to their flag, Named schools and other buildings of import after those leaders, And even erected statues to them. That's like going to Germany and seeing a statue of Hitler erected in Berlin, A going to China and having a celebration for gangus Khan. These are the countries knew that these men were not something to be proud of in at least had the decency to hide their shame. Only in America I guess.
Kendi has a lot of untenable, postmodern ideas that his supporters seem to be oblivious to. I'd recommend Coleman Hughes' review of his book "How to be an Anti-Intellectual"
Hey I've read that! I'd also recommend reading Alex Sheremet's rebuttal to Hughes where he disproves much of what Hughes says using the very sources Hughes uses. it's quite fascinating, not saying it will change your mind but it did change mine a bit about hughes, Sheremet is also quite hilarious in his responses in the comment thread below the essay, which is also good. alexsheremet.com/coleman-hughes-cannot-be-trusted/
@@pockyhawk Thanks for sharing the article! Certainly interesting and containing valid points. I agreed with some of the instances of Hughes strawmaning others, but also found Sheremet to strawman Hughes at times. I thought the last 3 paragraphs lost the plot. Sheremet himself admits "this is just ad hominem bullshit," yet still attempts a defense of it. As if it's every individuals responsibility to spend an hour denouncing the views of a long list of others who just happened to sit in the same chair as you months or years prior. I found it a cringe-worthy endorsement of associative blame and of the importance on virtue signaling within the metapolitic. Regardless, I think we'd all benefit from more exposure to long form critiques and discussions (as opposed to the easily-digestible, slogan diet most of us consume) and happy to see one emerge from a YT comment.
There are so many negative comments on this video... there isn't anything outlandish in there: - Don't be in denial about racism, examine yourself, the ideas you hold and policies you support. Admit and improve - Be active against racism (anti-racist) not passive (I'm not racist mentality). - He is right a lot of these policies will benefit all Americans. Stop thinking like it is a zero sum game. Sounds like it would make the world a better place to me...
I can tell you why: Because his arguments are vapidly articulated to the point of being meaningless. He literally is incapable of articulating what "racism" means. (search for the clip where he is asked the question) And he seems to indicate things such as discriminating against Asians to maintain "equity" quotas is something he'd approve of as "anti-racist". (Though god help you if you want him to justify why). He will not cite data or studies to back policy prescriptions, if he ever offers any policy prescriptions. And he completely ducks conversation/debate from those who challenge him. He largely enables black suffering by saying "just read my book, pay me money, feel a bit guilty, and then you don't have to worry about racial inequalities whites!". But this doesn't solve anything. Also he pushes for things that actively harm the communities he claims to stand for. He would rather abolish the SAT than help black children do better at it, he doesn't seem to care about meritocracy, or seeing people as individuals. Here's what he does, and check yourself and honestly answer if he did this for you: "He said a bunch of words about racism, such that you could clap, pretend to be enlightened, feel a bit guilty, and then say 'welp, I've done my part'. without changing a damn thing about the lives of the struggling." That's what he does, he is a preacher in a religion who says "yes you are a sinner of racism, but you are forgiven, so long as repent and buy my book." That logic is stupid and is counter productive to improving the lives of the people Kendi pretends (but doesn't really) care about. Read "Woke Racism" or any other countless explanations of why Kendi is harming/exploiting the communities he pretends to care about. He's not a compassionate person. Or at the very best, he's a compassionate person who is incredibly ignorant about what he is saying and doesn't know or care about the ways in which he could be wrong, all while getting rich doing it.
Debate Coleman Hughes live on RUclips
HE IS A FRAUD. runs away from anyone who pushes back. only fluff like what you see here.
or John McWhorter.
No substance until you debate Coleman or Sowell.
That what require courage. Communists, which increasingly lean into RACIALIZED communism, don't have courage.
Genuine question - has Ibram done a debate with anyone? I really want to see how he holds his own against any type of pushback. I can't find any debates that he's been in at all
This guy literally believes everything is racist. I wish he would have a discussion with Coleman Hughes.
He wont. He is the placeholder for those waiting to march white people into death camps. We are going along with it willingly. We gave up our fight for our people many many many years ago. its OVER!
This guy is racist.
Both of these people are clowns and Colbert is a little sychophantic infant. Kendi is causing tremendous harm to our great country. If this place is so freaking terrible Rogers, I mean Kendi, why don't you move to a socialist country where there is apparently no racism? This is a dude who believes capital gains taxes are racist. He's a fraud and is brainwashing moronic members of our society.
Or John Mcworthor
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
He’s a fraud. Debate Coleman Hughes.
He don’t want that smoke.
Check out the article, "how to be an anti-intellectual" by Coleman Hughes for some good counter arguments
I love Coleman Hughes!
Kendi is just full of anti-liberal, anti-democratic ideas. His idea for an unelected council to enforce antiracism across wide swaths of society is particularly precious.
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Hopefully this author will take up Coleman Hughes on his requestto debate him!,,
Ben Shapiro destroying this guy asinine book Anti-Racist Baby ruclips.net/video/3hOyi75x8Sw/видео.html
Summary: "All accusations are valid if they come from a certified accuser."
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
That is such a western centric world view point, saying "racism is a modern phenomena"
Oh, thank god...someone else noticed! I was reading the comments of here with such disbelief ...does NO ONE know history at ALL? damn....
Andra Book can you give me an example of pre-modern racism? I’ve not encountered it in reading history but I do tend to read more western history
Yes! Just look at both the Egyptian and Roman empires and who made up the population of enslaved people. They were generally different people groups and ethnicities. Aside from that point I really enjoyed this interview!
There are so many different definitions of the word "racism", if you take it to mean using the biological/zoological term "race" as a concept for dividing people into categories and assigning them qualities and value, it's modern. Obviously the tendency of humans to see people who don't look like us, or historically in Europe people who speak other languages than us, as fundamentally different is ancient
*Western/narcissistic 21st century
Kendi’s words and writings are nothing short of destructive and more importantly archaic!
it's racism disguised as anti-racism
Thanks for giving even the slightest mention of Native Americans in here, seems very rare lately to admit that they are also suffering
If you know history, which most don't, you understand how intertwined the oppression of African and indigenous people are. Europeans enslaved indigenous people in the Americans before they started to farm Africans. Both Africans and Amerindians experienced literal and cultural genocide.
Still no mention of women of any race which...
🍯 blood honey If you knew history you’d know how interwoven the suffering of ALL ethnicities, cultures, and races are. Do you need a reminder of just how infantile America and it’s issues are? How young the country is? There’s 12,000 years of human civilization that people are overlooking, you all seem to be focused on the past 400 years and not the fact that this has been occurring for all of human history 🤔
@@skelitonking117 Two things. Of course Americans are going to focus on the issues in America. The America's have had human habitation since at least the ice age, and some think S America has had it even longer.
@@cdupont491 they were talking about the colonial project in the Americas not the whole world
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an academic lightweight -Glenn Loury
Dude's real name is Rogers....he got like a 1000 on his SAT. This is what happens when morons are given spots at top schools as students and faculty not because of merit but due to skin color. Merit is apparently "racist." lol
Definitely an academic lightweight and Colbert jumps on yet another bandwagon.
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
I do not concur with you.
@@MRnotMS97 Check out Glen Loury, John McWhorter, and Coleman Hughes to challenger your opinions.
Personal responsibility is not the most difficult road to personal power, it’s the only road.
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
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Are you Jewish?
@@MrBooYa-yd5er Yes.
This is really interesting, I have never heard the term "anti-racist". I absolutely agree, it is really difficult to recognize and actively work against your biases (especially when everyone around you doesn't). I will admit that when the BLM movement first emerged, I didn't fully understand it and even said "all lives matter". Until I listened and understood why you really shouldn't say that and now I wholeheartedly support BLM. It is hard to admit you're wrong, even harder to change your opinion. But that is the only way to any real change. And I do believe that most everyone is capable of change.
Children might not be colorblind, but hate is learned.
Totally agree. Our consciousness have been heightened. It's something that makes me both glad and scared.
@James Schultz *Est.1982 I agree, colorblindness doesn't help anyone but white people, again. Children see color by nature. They don't hate by nature.
I also don't see myself as "woke" or whatever have you. Just a human. I judge by character, not looks.
@James Schultz *Est.1982 Thank you brother. You were woke before the word became so popular. Praying for real change.
Thank you for developing a diverse mind and being a real ally.
Yes, friend; hate is learned therefore can be “unlearned”. All we need is to be open-minded. I’ve had open dialogue with open racist and sexist men AT the workplace. I was ridiculed for entertaining the conversation but I’m about understanding perspective. We have to listen to each other more. Feelings don’t materialize from thin air but are a response to SOMETHING. It’s just important to listen.
I see wealth inequality as an important factor in racism, but I also believe capitalism plays a major rule in maintaining race inequality. exploitation is part of capitalism
A system of exploitation breeds prejudice. The overlap between the anti prejudice struggle (anti racism, lgbtq+ struggle, feminism, etc.) isn't a coincidence. To fight hate we have to dismantle any system that profits on it.
@@0cramoi I"m an old man acting like an arm-chair protestor. I was captured by hedonism in the '80s and even though I can see the manipulation, it is unlikely I will step up to dismantle anything. I believe it is no coincidence how hedonism is everywhere in our society. Brave New World was a plan for the U.S. and not just a good read.
I think the whole situation has exposed what is wrong with capitalism in more ways than one. We are all being fucked by the system, some are just getting more fucked than others. And they're the ones fighting back and leading the rest of us.
We are all fucked by lack of socialized healthcare, poor wages, and corporate power. And honest-to-god, the fucking argument is "Because you wouldn't want a black guy to have it, too!"
Fuck that shit. I DO want my black brothers and sisters to have it. I want all of us to have it. Because it will make us all powerful.
self interest and greed lead to racism, not the other way around - which is a big point in Kendi's book
@@0cramoi I'm sorry. What?
"The activism" (and by extension, the sort that Mr. Kendi offers as anti-racism) "is a way for useless people to feel important, even if their activism" (read false gospel) "is counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell
"racism is a modern phenomenon"
?????
credibility plummeted
A late night variety show taking on a deep & complex topic head on, such as racism. Respect.
HOGWASH....
BLM: "All lives will matter when black lives matter"
REALITY: "That will only happen when blacks stop killing each other first".... Chicago... Detroit... etc... etc... (Don't expect respect from others BEFORE learning how to respect yourselves. That learning should START in the home. If the home doesn't have a "father"... the boy will find a "father" in the streets)
THE PROBLEM: You cannot MANDATE personal thought. In other words... Hopefully, each of us were raised to know the difference between “right” and “wrong”... BUT if somebody is racist against me (and if I've exhausted ALL OPTIONS to convince (the racist) that I'm a nicest guy they'll ever meet) there's not much else I can do except turn around... walk away... and find better friends. It comes down to "personal responsibility"... no matter the color. You haven't convinced me of anything... by burning down the business I've saved for all my life. Just because YOU can't feed your kids doesn't mean you can destroy MY "American Dream" and force MY family to starve. Two wrongs don't make it right.
BOTTOMLINE: Nobody is born a racist... nobody has to die a racist. Simply... give love a chance. Last I checked, violence and looting isn't a way to show love. (Dr King would be extremely disappointed)
@Amanda milson - How do you mandate an alcoholic from committing alcohol-driven stupidity? Professor Kendi is using that same logic to control racism.
"How Anti Racism Hurts Black People - John McWhorter" ruclips.net/video/mT2rlJe9cuU/видео.html
"Denzel Washington speaks out: Don’t ‘blame the system’ for black incarceration, ‘it starts at home’" ruclips.net/video/O0dCvQdt5XI/видео.html
@@eddiep812 Denzel Washington doesn't study history and racism. He's an actor.
@@gunuin - You discredit common sense because he's an actor? (Denzel talks about "taking ownership" for one's mistakes)
Dr King would be disappointed that the Black Lives Matter movement has not learned a damn thing about "character" and "personal responsibility".
- "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - MLK
If you want a real intellectually honest discussion on the complexity of racism and race relations then watch this instead;
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How can he be the nations leading scholar on Anti-Racism when he couldn't even define "racism" during a Q and A at the Aspen Ideas festival? You can find a video of Larry Elder reacting to that clip, that also features some wise words from an ACTUAL Black intellectual and orator Thomas Sowell, an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Oh and btw he has published 50 books!
Can POC be racist or is this only targeting whites about racist ideas?
Yes, we can be racist. This man is not a scholar.
Intersectionalists would say that only whites can be racist. The liberal position is that anyone can be racist to anyone else. The intersectionalists would assert that racism is systemic and people on the bottom don't have the power to be racist. Individualism would state that this is nonsense because we must judge actions on a case by case basis and not just reduce people to collectivist groups. A problem in the discourse around this is that the different factions have competing definitions of what racism is.
@@autodidactpolymath1851 No. Not really. The intersectionist are trying to redefine it on critical race theories terms, in order that other groups are not held to account.
He says in his book that blacks can be racist. One of the few valuable things he offers.
@@HowardRhodes-e9n I recall him saying that even he was once racist but toward people of color (as the perpetual victims). He does not say that racism is possible against whites. Very problematic as there are many accounts of discrimination against whites.
I'm happy Dr. Kendi's book is a bestseller right now. I do hope people will actually read it and not just leave it on the coffee table to let others know how woke they are. And not just white people either. There are some worthwhile ideas about assimilation and internalizing racism that everyone can benefit from.
It's a great book
@real american Been awhile since you read a book huh
His TED Talk was phenomenal too. Didn't think I'd takeaway much from a 51 minute TED, but boy oh boy.
Brown people have to read it... we have some work to do in our communities.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
Equitable? Why not just come out and say "creating a communistic society is in White Americans' self interest." Same thing.
Glenn loury called this race hustler an empty suit ,, he’s up their w robin deangelo,, grifters ,,what a joke , Stephen going to kiss his feet when done
To be "anti-racist" is to admit the you are in fact a RACIST? I disagree
My stepdad is a boomer. He and I just discussed how his parents opinion had effected his worldly point of view.
We discovered that he was raised to be racist and he was unaware that it was so because he didn't understand it any other way.
It effected him until he started to look at the world through his own eyes.
Sadly, as children we soak up whatever our parents and teachers ingrain into us, from actual ideologies to simple habits. There is no way to escape it barring extreme cases where social services come in. The important thing is to realize, when confronted by the rest of the world, that many things we held as truth have always been false (and that happens no matter what), and accept that some portion of ourselves needs to change.
As Seneca said, it's human to make mistakes, but it's diabolical to hold onto them.
I grew up the same. Most important is that we learn from it, to not repeat it, and therefore not passing it on to our children. Good on your dad for making that effort to understand and change his views. Lots of older folks really need to do the same.
@@edoardoprevelato6577 Many teachers will treat under-performing students as lazy, without considering the student's home situation. Less wealthy students are more likely to under-perform. Hence poverty becomes hereditary and more entrenched in black communities.
@@NightingaleSong true. I'm white and not poor, but i'll be damned if all teacher-parents talks weren't all "he's smart but he doesn't apply himself". I never had a teacher i actually respected and admired until two years into university, the others were simply in the background or plain bitches/assholes.
As a boomer, that is true for some of us, but other boomers argued against their parents' racist ideas. Boomers (like any group) are not a monolithic culture.
"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing" - Dalinar Kholin, Oathbringer, Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.
Good taste in authors. I need to read book three.
For The Wynne the question remains will he be strong enough to make the change? Or will he cave to the peer pressure ==== these books sound wonderful
@@oilpntr I will tell ya, due to a lot of personal BS I almost committed suicide and The Way of Kings, the first book, helped me through it. I know read it like others read the Bible. It means that much to me. Sanderson is also the first author that has not only made me cry but I still cry re-reading scenes I know that are going to happen.
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This is just secular Catholicism, racism as the original sin, it also has penances and remittances(donations and reparations)
Good point never seen way before.
yes but at least catholicism provides spiritual nourishment, communion with god, and a community of well intended souls. kendi and his ilk are cynical, divisive, and hateful
@@waffenwrapp62 Correct, Catholicism does not differentiate between the believers based on skin colour and the believers can achieve Gods grace through good works and prayer.
This is not possible in the Wokist cult.
@@jbagger331 that's what i meant to say, haha! perfect
“leading scholar on anti racism” smh that’s the most useless title someone can have, Kendi is a joke
Stating that this video is actually witnessing two floating turds RACING towards the surface of a toilet bowl would be more truthful than most of what Ibrahim Kendi and Stephen Colbert claim about race and racism.
he should get a real job.
I have always enjoyed the guest interviews of scholars and thought leaders on Colbert. Sometimes the celebrity interviews are good, especially if they're another comedian but for the most part they're pretty boring, vapid and pointless so I skip them. I hope you keep interviewing important people at the same rate when you're back in the studio!
I can echo this sentiment whole heartedly. Some celebrity interviews get a chuckle or a genuinly interesting story out of them, but many feel pointless to me. The author interviews of the CC era Stewart/Colbert were pretty great, usually and tackled great topics.
Oh my gosh yes. This has been great I feel like this (covid and the uprisings) has given him more freedom.
Professor Kendi's work has taught me so much. ..."actually willing to admit..." That was the BIG lesson for me. Now, instead of hiding from my mistakes, I admit them. I speak openly about them. He's 100% correct, it's ACTION that counts.
Love this because when we admit our own faults and share our own growth, it helps others to feel free to do so. This is where it starts.
@Dragonblazzer969 Why does it matter what intent people have to say? If you are fearful of voicing your opinions online because of the potential backlash then speak privately to trusted confidants. Not everything needs to be public. Then once you think you have a better grasp of the concepts then you can enter the public arena. Spewing factually debunked theories out of curiosity or ignorance is just tiresome. You can research it yourself. Not everything has to be handed to you.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
So what have you done?
you should also think for yourself and not just be emotionally manipulated into believing everything.
pretty bad interview. leading questions, not asking how Kendi has come to the conclusions he presents or how those conclusions are backed up with studies...
"How to be an Anti-Racist" should be called "How to be a Communist"
What's wrong with Communism?
Wow. This guy is HORRIBLY racist, under the guise of "anti-racist". WHY would you have him on here???
cause they are scared of these marxists and will do anything to prove they are not racist.
Because leftists have no purpose in life. The only thing that keeps them alive is their feeling of moral superiority and self-righteousness.
I would like to know the Doctors perspective on the slave trade that was happening in Africa perpetuated by Arabs. If he thinks that was not racism. And how that differs from the colonial slave trade. I so jot minimize our responsibility in the US, I would just like to k ow how he describes that slave trade.
He wont. It'll defeat his whole idea that the WORLD isn't and hasn't been racist. Just north America. We're not tribalistic by nature, racism originated in America... He's an Anti-intellectual bordering on skillfully manipulative.
In his book he refers to intersectionality and that arabs were working from a hierarchy of classism. Not racism, since they were the same color but differences in culture
@@pradoteach5509 They weren't the same color though. We know that Egyptians for example in the first centuries of Islam mainly took black (nubian) slaves
Read (or re-read) the book. He deals well with that question.
@@pheeel17 you don't know what you're talking about. Try reading Cheikh Anta Diop or Yusuf Ben Jochanon or J.A. Rodgers. Egypt was a Black land of Black people. Semitic people were slaves in Kemit (Egypt). Libyans and many other kinds of people were slaves in Egypt. Nubians were also rulers in Ancient Egypt. You need to learn more. Everything you know has been taught you by Western culture which is fundamentally anti African.
"Listen other perspectives" they say...
"It'll be good for you" they say...
AMEN. Why don't americans have free health care for all, paid family leave, things they have in every other westernized country? Good questions.
Corporate profits.
There’s no such thing as “free” healthcare.
@@Schwedeballz Free at the point of service. And its well proven that single payer is overall cheaper.
If you ask Kendi, it is because Capitalism is racist.
@@Monedgar123 free at point of service because it’s been prepaid ahead of time. For how much taxes are taken out I will disagree it’s cheaper for the individuals or else you wouldn’t see so many people flocking to the United States for better economic gains.
You want to see what government controlled healthcare in the US would be like? Go to the DMV.
Dr Kendi: I wrote a book called Antiracist Baby.
t'rump: Is it about me?
Dr Kendi: I said 'anti'....
t'rump: Ooohhh. 👶🍼
🙊🙊🙊
He thought it read "Antichrist Baby"
I can't stop laughing at your comment because its so probable.
🤣🤣🤣spot on!
I laughed so hard at this comment!
Literally just finished reading his book and it's absolutely amazing. Not only is it informative, it's really a beautifully written book and his story is so moving.
www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
You must be quite credulous.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
@Erika Johnson Really? Well, Coleman Hughes, in the article I cite above, refutes Kendi's book with rigor and impressive persuasion. I would like to hear your opinion of it, if you have the time to read it.
@@megg.6651 i read it. The article accuses Dr. Kendi of cherry picking but cherry picks his words on various topics and misrepresents the thesis of the book. I disagree with the idea that screaning policy for possible racial inequality with an antiracist department of government is totalitarian. I have my own thoughts about how the chapter on capitalism is handled but I'm not at all an expert on economics. Overall I disagree with this article even if I will concede one or two points.
@Brian you're literally leaving a misogynistic comment on a two month old thread for no other reason than to be a rude to someone you don't know. But sure, I'm the over emotional one for liking a book.
I live in *Custer* County (one of many throughout the US) and it is overwhelmingly Right Wing, religulous (religion and ridiculous), Republican, ranch-family, racist, radicals who think god is on their side. Every day is a challenge. I am proud to be a supporter of BLM. I grew up in the South and moved up here to escape the racism. It's ingrained...
Yeee-haw we are back in the 50’s now people!! BS. Have you ever even stopped and listened to how racist black people are? For years I have heard it and what’s even funnier is they say it right in front of us because they know there’s nothing anyone can say about it because after all the race card is a powerful took
Somehow I doubt republicans make like a tough challenge for black people. I moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina and I think life is much much better there. I'm black myself.
I honestly thought this was a joke or a skit at first. Then I got to the end and realized that’s exactly what it is
Please respond to the debate request by Coleman Hughes!
The fact that a man of such ignorance is a professor and bestseller says it all.
I find it very inspiring, how very serious and very hopeful Dr. Kendi is at the same time.
look up his opinions on interracial adoption.
Dr Kendi, we are definitely getting your book. Excellent interview.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
@@megg.6651 Lol go ahead...
Dude.....slavery existed in Egypt....thousands of years ago
Working on it. Appreciate any constructive help I can get.
read Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
@@autodidactpolymath1851 I just finished that book. Amazing! Shawn dont listen to kendi hes a cult indoctrination leader and wants to arrest your development and control your mind. Im not joking. Go read liftons book on Thought Reform
“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
I dont know if I should laugh, cry, or both with the things I've heard in this interview.
You know that he put out a tweet debunking his own theory saying that white people fake their ethnicity in order to get into college then deleted the tweet and said that anybody who questioned it was racist this was just a few days ago.
Laugh and cry at that
I grew up in the South. And in listening to Dr Kendi, it reminds me of the mindset, where people down there might say something as, "Gosh, for a n______, he sure is smart". Then if they kept listening, they would either open their minds a bit, OR they would get angry and say, "he needs to get off his high horse and stop acting like that". BLM.
I’m not sure what kind of people you all hang out with but where most of us come from people are judged by their behavior and what they stand for, not the color of their skin. Also a small caveat...have any of you woke bastards ever heard how black people talk about whites? Lemme guess. In that case it’s deserved.
I'm just ordered his book. I need to educate myself to be better and take action. We can all be better. Great interview.
It's an awesome book. Get ready for lots of self-reflection, but you will be better for it.
Those who need this book the most, never read books.
Or, search for improving their condition and others.
@Yoster Schnauss If intelligent people could convince stupid people. there would be no stupid people.
@@DT-bp2om I'd suggest taking another look then, as he explicitly calls out anti-white sentiment in one of his chapters.
Coleman Hughes wrote an excellent critique of Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" in his article in City Journal titled, "How to Be an Anti-Intellectual". I highly recommend reading it. www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
@@spiritualanarchist8162 underrated ^^
so proud to have known him when he was a prof at university of florida
real american probably just a gators fan lol
@real american I see you didn't watch the video...
@Dragonblazzer969 - How is the conclusion promote more divisiveness? That wasn't the message I got. Can you point out specifically where you got that message? Asking sincerely, and hoping you will answer.
@DumbelldoorYou've claimed this "divisiveness" several times.. time to explain yourself. People wanting to be treated better should never be divisive in its first pass. What he is asking of anyone is to actively try to make the world better, to actively confront bias, discrimination, unjust outcomes due to historical racist polices.. what part of that is divisive?? IF you don't believe in equality and equity, then i suppose it could be divisive to you.
Excellent interview, just stellar for both Stephen and Dr Kendi
Stephen was pitching to a home run derby on this one for sure
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Really it was a joke but nice!
I've never seen anyone that calls themselves anti-racist that isn't in fact extremely racist.
Go watch the Ted Talk on this topic, Anti-racism, it speaks volumes
Thanks! Wish more comments would be like this and provide additional, accurate information. This topic especially requires serious self-education for everyone. Much appreciated
Is there only one TED talk on anti-racism?
NO!
Dumbelldoor you sound incredibly ignorant. Just watch the videos or mind your business; we’re here for education not nonsensical ranting. Have a good one ✌🏻❤️🤗
In the name of balance also listen to Coleman Hughs’s rebuttal:
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Debate Coleman. Or better yet, debate Glenn Loury. Colbert, you should have one of those guys on your show.
Why is this man so scared to debate Coleman Hughes?
Ibram thanks for believing we can turn it around
Such a wonderful human. His books are excellent. His way of looking at racism and becoming anti racist is what we need. It really makes so much sense. Thank you Dr. Kendi.
I studied at the St.George campus of the University of Toronto, i have a Doctorate in Anthropology, and a masters in Archeology; with a focus of Tribal movements across Western Europe from the Neolithic to the Medieval, and i can tell you with ABSOLUTE certainty, that Racism is not a new concept.
America right now seems to be focused on about the past 400 years give or take, but doing so is not only incredibly disingenuous, but ignorant of nearly 12,000 years of Human civilization.
Every Race, Ethnicity, culture, or system of belief has at some point been enslaved, subjugated, colonized, or destroyed by another; Tribal warfare has always been a thing.
So to say that the concept of racism began with European colonialism is not only insulting your own intelligence, but is a completely racist statement in itself; Discrimination, racism, and prejudice is a slippery slope argument, one in which you’re magically stopping the boulder at white people.
Tell me Doctor; have you stopped to check your internalized biases? Are you “Not racist”? Or are you “anti-racist”? We’re all human right? And those biases are subconscious, inherent, and intrinsic right? Or are you a pure soul? Removed from all the faults that plague the rest of humanity? Do you have no sins to bare? Doubtful.
Ethnocentrism vs Racism. Different concepts.
I’m smelling a bit of white fragility, though, in the personal attacks in response.
While I agree with your first paragraphs ( though it looked different in different cultures / tribes /society throughout different times) I haven't heard anything here suggesting that Dr. Kendi believes he himself is exempt from any biases and racism or that only "white" people can be racist. Do you have sources where he asserts that?
I'm going to order his book.
Book is AMAZING
The Antiracism book is 100% worth your efforts!! I haven't read his "Stamped" book yet but I'm sure it's also stellar.
Read and currently benefiting from the information. I recommend this book to all my brothers of multi colored backgrounds.
Me too
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He is a professor in dividing America.I am Asian and I met different racist people, so racism is a personal choice.
If we revamp the system to give everyone the opportunity to become the best they can be, how can we do anything but benefit as a society?!
Great way of thinking, and I think it's true
Exactly!
....by making wierdly vague calls to action and plunging the country deeper into a pandemic?....just saying
What does that mean though?
@K V Western civilization. There are some black people who do live at and surpass the standards of white americans. Furthermore, the poorest among us are still some of the richest in the world. Of course slavery and racism in the system and its creators has created a gap - that's common sense. However, blaming EVERYTHING on systemic racism and ignoring personal responsibility, resilience, and ambition is lazy. Unlike that Smithsonian poster, there is nothing wrong with assimilation when you're assimilating into productive values and virtues.
If Kendi was 1/100th as insightful as he thought he was, he'd be willing to speak to literally anybody who just didn't praise him consistently.
Instead of lecturing us to stop tell us to stop saying the word "not racist", Dr. Ibram X. Kendi should instead advocate to end the war on drugs and other policies that don't work!
All men created equal... All people... you women and children again forgotten. We need to agree Black lives matter before we can realize anything else right now.
TheTruthIsRacist we’re not asking that they matter more, just more than they do right now since they’re considered expendable and killing black people is dismissed as irrelevant.
I love how the majority of comments are on how Ibram should debate Coleman. Shame Ibram turned him down though, unsurprisingly. 🤷♂️
i have a question professor, were the african chiefs, kings or leaders that sold their own people to middle eastern and other slave traders, were they racist also?
No but that doesn’t excuse it. Selling people is still a shitty thing to do.
@A SH they wont cause it dosent fit the narrative only whites can be racist dont you get it!
There is absolutely no way human beings can manage an evolving, organic system of positive and negative discrimination.
Ok that was some real grifter bullshit lol. I know a hustler when I see one 💯
Kendi: Now try having a discussion with someone who has the courage to challenge some of your ideas. Coleman Hughes has graciously offered to do so.
If we are in Stage 4 racism, as put at the end of the video, what stage were we in during segregation? Jim Crow? Slavery?
Can't get enough of this man. Read his book and recommend it to anyone who could use it to help get a new perspective.
Makes me wonder what the dislikes are all about. He’s full of hope and sends hope.
@@masukamagambo4236 calling a white mother a racist for adopting two black kids from Haiti. I wonder who the racist one is.
do you think that white people adopting black children is an act of racism? Kendi does.
A real scholar or professor will welcome debate to prove their ideology.
"...self interest."
So much is said here...
Virtually nothing was said.
@@sheilamacdougal9948 you may want to listen again (with an open heart).
@DingleBungus of you had read his books, you would then know he says much more.
I’m still waiting for his argument. John Mcworter puts Mr Kendi and his ideas nicely to bed.
I find it so suspicious that I have to do so much work to find a positive comment but the number of likes in this video are so high 🤔
When I listen to Mr. Kendi, my mind explodes with questions.
I have questions about how a man can become a college professor in a completely made up and useless field can still convince himself he’s oppressed even as he’s on late night tv shows and all over the media circuit.
@@itzasweater9621 (this is why I said what I did -_^)
great interview Stephen - you should have Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on your show more often.
he should have Coleman Hughes or James Lindsay on but he won't because he's not interested in intellectual integrity, only pushing a one sided agenda.
He reminds me so much of that fraternity guy from Fresh Prince who hated Carlton for being rich.
I've seen Dr. Kendi in two interviews now and am so glad to hear his voice in the midst of all of this. :)
Kendi's preached his ideas but won't discuss or debate his ideas with any person that opposes him. Time after time being invited to discuss his views in an open forum but he has declined.
First mistake, he is not a historian.
Gonna be more difficult than that...
He’s delusional and an opportunist. How’s that?
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“When someone calls you out for being racist, you need to listen so you can change.” Yeah, but people nowadays think everything is racist, so I’m giving them the power to try to change me first assuming that they know what they’re talking about?! Nope, not happening. If this grifter wasn’t inspiring people to think that everything is racist, maybe I’d listen.
Dr. Kendi’s book has been a huge boost to the momentum building behind speeding up cultural progress toward racial equity. He found just the right message for the age: There is no such thing as “not racist” in U.S. culture. An action or an idea or a policy is either racist or anti-racist. “Not racist” is the same as racist.
It’s simple, it’s definitive, it’s morally just, and it is consistent with the values expressed in the Constitution.
@Dumbelldoor Neither inequity nor inequality should correlate by race. IN america they both DO!
It's to be expected at this point, but I find it strange that Colbert goes along with stuff like this, because he is actually very brilliant. I cannot tell how much of the leftist groupthink he truly agrees with. I think he is smart enough to see through some of it, but I also would bet that he feels a lot of pressure on this very mainstream show to uphold certain trending ways of thinking lest he be 'called out' for questioning or appearing to disagree with someone who is so powerful and influential over many leftists right now like Kendi. He wouldn't challenge or go against the narrative and it really irks me that he would never openly disagree with Kendi even if disagreement was his true position. I think he's adopted some of the groupthink as a matter of survival since taking over this show which has a much wider audience and broader mainstream appeal (to people on the left). On some level he may have convinced himself that he actually agrees with it so it's easier to go along with. He was so creative and sharp on the Daily Show, how did he come to think the way he does these days?
children are not born racist , they follow their parents foot step
If you read any of his work you'll find that it's more complicated than that. Parents are definitely strong contributors but it runs much deeper. Check out any of his books on Audible. It's worth your time.
No offense to any parent, plz. I am anti racist ... But I am scared to see my son one day develop a racist thought because of curiosity , while I was sure that "he was not born that way"... So I will teach him (3 years) that having racist ideas are part of humanity but ends in a horrible future for all races...
That’s part of it, though they’re also influenced by the TV and media they consume as well as their classmates, friends, and teachers. However, parents do have the ability to manipulate and frame whatever the kid experiences. Let’s just say that I have “I’m not racist” relatives and I had a lot unlearning to do once I got to college.
I was raised not to be racist. Then I met a whole lotta black folk. If your rich and don't know many black people but don't like blacks you're probably racist. If your poor, and have known many black people and don't like them, then your just observant.
This is only partially true. We have parts of our brains that actually have evolved around safety in what is often called "tribalism," or those that look like us, a kind of imprinting. Check out neuroscience of racism.
What a great racket this guy has going
This is very cute. Almost adorable. An equitable society is not in the interest of the top 1%. It never will be. Who do you think decides how the society is actually run?
Very true. Also an equitable society is impossible, at least on any large scale. Anyone who thinks they can build an equitable society lacks an understanding of human nature.
There are people examining other people’s lives to detect if they are engaging in any actions deemed to be anti-racist based on this idea one can’t be “not a racist” and they’re then being labelled a racist if they’re not engaging in any actions. It’s causing families and even marriages to end,. Not everyone wants to be an activist and they shouldn’t be compelled to be one under the threat of being socially ostracised as being a labelled a racist, even if they’re not saying or doing anything that’s racist. What on earth has happened to the ability of people in the US to analyse an idea with a critical lens to determine its flaws?
Any ACTUAL intellectual will dissect this man to what he is. A Fraud. Counterfeit. He is a preacher at best. At worst, SKILLFULLY MANIPULATIVE.
To Kendi’s way of thinking anyone who counters his convictions is a racist. No room for dialog here. Bow your head and admit that you’re a racist and with those sad eyes he will accept you into his fold after you have repented. Sounds like he’s starting a religion. I for one am not interested in becoming a convert.
I would really like to know some facts on which these conclusions were made, and then I'll decide what I think. Bc ''looking into antiquity''....there was DEFINITELY a concept of both races AND even more importantly slavery, across several continents and races. Definitely. That is in archeological evidence and in some areas...literally carven in stone. So what you;re saying here, does not make sense at all.
There are concepts of ethnicity, but that's not like the concept of "race" that we see today. I would say to also keep in mind that any translations of things from antiquity tend to have a bit of the culture that's doing the translation projected onto it. For a modern example, we see that in louisiana french culture: the racialization of the term creole is a product of american projecting the racial binary white/black -> cajun/creole when, historically from the french perspective, cadien is a subset of creole and creoles of exclusively european descent aren't always of acadian descent. The point here is that the dominant culture doing the translating (anglo america) is projecting their culture onto another in a way that doesn't really translate any nuance.
In regards to slavery, again, yes, there was slavery, but it's nowhere near the same scale as the chattel slavery of the atlantic slave trade. It doesn't make these other forms of slavery good or ok, but it isn't the same and the impacts of the ast and american and colonial slave laws are still around today. Even the anglo racial binary versus the prominence of multiracial identities in many creole cultures, albeit a somewhat more benign example, is a product of differences in slave laws.
Meow How many slaves came to the US from the Atlantic Slave Trade?
I can't believe he gave this man a platform. He has created so much division in society.
What a brilliant conversation. I have to take issue with one point I’m afraid.
My white son was colourblind as a young child. In his pre school and primary school life he was surrounded by so many different skin tones and cultures. He never saw skin colour. It was absolutely natural to him. We are Australian. So our treatment of First Nations people is on record and continues to be appalling. But my son didn’t see colour as a small child. When he was taught about our indigenous history and his bestie at the time was an indigenous child he wept for his lack of connection to land. That may be a very specifically Australian context but it makes me question the idea that kids “naturally” see colour.
And I don’t mean he was literally “colour blind” visually.
'Racism' by that name is relatively new since 'race' is a relatively new concept. But discrimination and prejudice based on kind and other xenophobic acts against the 'other' are as ancient as documented history goes back. The Ancient Greeks called anyone not them Barbarians (barbaros) because all they heard when they spoke was 'bar-bar-bar'. And it made sense to be prejudice of the other, as back then most societies were ethnically homogeneous and the 'other' would often be a legitimate threat.
Yeah it probably started with different languages
Thank you for teaching racism and division, you sir are a racist, and to deny that you are being racist is an anti-racist idea
Time to invite Jane Elliott to the show Stephen Colbert!
I second that!!!!
I remember back in the 80’s when I was working on my MAT, we watched - and re-watched - a movie about her experiment and it’s impact on her students. It had a huge impact on us as well.
@@charleskramer7062 Sadly it stopped there I remember thinking yeah Jane is on it, some good things will happen now and they didn't it was put away
I've never understood America's stand on the Confederate flag. During the Civil War the Confederate army fought to overthrow the United States government. They lost and yet people still held on to their flag, Named schools and other buildings of import after those leaders, And even erected statues to them. That's like going to Germany and seeing a statue of Hitler erected in Berlin, A going to China and having a celebration for gangus Khan. These are the countries knew that these men were not something to be proud of in at least had the decency to hide their shame. Only in America I guess.
Kendi has a lot of untenable, postmodern ideas that his supporters seem to be oblivious to. I'd recommend Coleman Hughes' review of his book "How to be an Anti-Intellectual"
"a lot of untenable, postmodern ideas"
name one
Hey I've read that!
I'd also recommend reading Alex Sheremet's rebuttal to Hughes where he disproves much of what Hughes says using the very sources Hughes uses. it's quite fascinating, not saying it will change your mind but it did change mine a bit about hughes, Sheremet is also quite hilarious in his responses in the comment thread below the essay, which is also good.
alexsheremet.com/coleman-hughes-cannot-be-trusted/
@@pockyhawk Thanks for sharing the article! Certainly interesting and containing valid points. I agreed with some of the instances of Hughes strawmaning others, but also found Sheremet to strawman Hughes at times. I thought the last 3 paragraphs lost the plot. Sheremet himself admits "this is just ad hominem bullshit," yet still attempts a defense of it. As if it's every individuals responsibility to spend an hour denouncing the views of a long list of others who just happened to sit in the same chair as you months or years prior. I found it a cringe-worthy endorsement of associative blame and of the importance on virtue signaling within the metapolitic. Regardless, I think we'd all benefit from more exposure to long form critiques and discussions (as opposed to the easily-digestible, slogan diet most of us consume) and happy to see one emerge from a YT comment.
There are so many negative comments on this video... there isn't anything outlandish in there:
- Don't be in denial about racism, examine yourself, the ideas you hold and policies you support. Admit and improve
- Be active against racism (anti-racist) not passive (I'm not racist mentality).
- He is right a lot of these policies will benefit all Americans. Stop thinking like it is a zero sum game.
Sounds like it would make the world a better place to me...
I can tell you why: Because his arguments are vapidly articulated to the point of being meaningless. He literally is incapable of articulating what "racism" means. (search for the clip where he is asked the question) And he seems to indicate things such as discriminating against Asians to maintain "equity" quotas is something he'd approve of as "anti-racist". (Though god help you if you want him to justify why). He will not cite data or studies to back policy prescriptions, if he ever offers any policy prescriptions. And he completely ducks conversation/debate from those who challenge him.
He largely enables black suffering by saying "just read my book, pay me money, feel a bit guilty, and then you don't have to worry about racial inequalities whites!". But this doesn't solve anything. Also he pushes for things that actively harm the communities he claims to stand for. He would rather abolish the SAT than help black children do better at it, he doesn't seem to care about meritocracy, or seeing people as individuals.
Here's what he does, and check yourself and honestly answer if he did this for you: "He said a bunch of words about racism, such that you could clap, pretend to be enlightened, feel a bit guilty, and then say 'welp, I've done my part'. without changing a damn thing about the lives of the struggling."
That's what he does, he is a preacher in a religion who says "yes you are a sinner of racism, but you are forgiven, so long as repent and buy my book."
That logic is stupid and is counter productive to improving the lives of the people Kendi pretends (but doesn't really) care about.
Read "Woke Racism" or any other countless explanations of why Kendi is harming/exploiting the communities he pretends to care about. He's not a compassionate person. Or at the very best, he's a compassionate person who is incredibly ignorant about what he is saying and doesn't know or care about the ways in which he could be wrong, all while getting rich doing it.
Great interview. Thank you. Eye-opening! Please have him back soon.