How Ibram X. Kendi Broke Boston University – WSJ

The debacle that is Boston University s Center for Antiracist Research is about far more than its founder, Ibram X. Kendi. It is about a university, caught up in cultural hysteria, subordinating itself to ideology.

After suddenly laying off over half his employees last week and with his center producing almost nothing since its founding, Mr. Kendi is now facing an investigation and harsh criticism from numerous colleagues complaining of financial mismanagement, dysfunctional leadership, and failure to honor obligations attached to its millions in grant money.

Such an outcome was entirely predictable. In June 2020, the university hired Mr. Kendi, created and endowed his center, and canceled all classes, meetings, and events for a quasi-religious Day of Collective Engagement on Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles, during which Mr. Kendi and his colleagues were treated as sages.

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David Decosimo.

The truth is what Professor Kendi did to BU, he could have done to nearly any college or university in the country, just for the asking. We would have been happy, I would guess, to take the donated money and bask in the virtue signaling. Maybe Harvard, Yale or Stanford would have declined the opportunity for scholarship reasons, maybe, but the vast majority schools would have said, sure, come and embarrass us. Except, as this op-ed explains, BU isn’t even embarrassed for the right reasons.