Stamped a Remix: A Partial List of Errors Reason.com

The “hot” book to “spur discussion” about racism or teach about “antiracism” for young adults is Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi’s book, Stamped a Remix, which is a dumbed-down version of Kendi’s book Stamped from the Beginning.

Kendi’s antiracism ideology is pernicious. He divides the world into racists, assimilationists, and antiracists. The assimilationists include almost everyone prominent who has ever worked for civil rights, including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois (at least until he became a Communist), MLK, and more. The hero of the last third of the book is Angela Davis. For some reason, even though she was Communist who devoted most of her life to advancing Communism in general rather than civil rights specifically, and was an over-the-top apologist for every brutal action ever taken by the USSR, she becomes the exemplar of antiracism. Not incidentally, she was and remains [link has her engaging in a modern version of blood libel by ridiculously linking Israel to police violence against blacks in the U.S.] an antisemite, and it’s rather difficult to see how a racist against Jews can be an antiracist heroine.

via reason.com