Perhaps the most foundational rule of logic is the law of noncontradiction. It is a fairly simple concept most famously articulated by Socrates and says that something cannot be both itself and its opposite at the same time. For example, someone cannot be both hungry and satisfied, just as something cannot be both dry and wet. It must be one or the other, but not both.

The story of race grievance grifter, sometime author, and Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi is one full of contradictions. Contradictions so foundational that he even acknowledges their existence while masterfully spinning a web of perceived reasonableness.