The critical race theorist who coined the term “anti-racism” will speak at the national convention of one of the largest teachers unions in the country.
Ibram X. Kendi, a humanities professor at Boston University, will speak at the American Federation of Teachers’ “Together Educating America’s Children” conference Wednesday. Kendi is the author of the New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist.
“Hear from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi in this free-ranging discussion with student activists and AFT members on his scholarship and on developing anti-racist mindsets and actions inside and outside classrooms,” the conference’s agenda reads.
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The focus of Kendi’s work in “anti-racism” is the effort to resolve racial “inequity.” In 2019, he advocated for a “Department of Anti-racism,” which would have the authority to strike down any law it deemed racially inequitable.
“One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of ‘not racist.’ The claim of ‘not racist’ neutrality is a mask for racism,” he wrote in How to Be an Antiracist.
Kendi gained popularity after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd on May 25, 2020. In April, he published a children’s book called Antiracist Baby, which “introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism” and provides “the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age.”
The National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the United States, passed a resolution to teach critical race theory in schools and push back against legislators’ attempts to ban it.
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The American Federation of Teachers did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
