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The Importance of Being Kendi

Delivering on the promise of nothingness

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Ben Domenech
Sep 25, 2023
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Spencer Klavan.

Ibram X. Kendi has done as he promised. In 2020, freshly anointed as the director of Boston University’s new Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), Kendi announced his intention to “transform how racial research is done.” Previously, “research” had been understood to involve collecting data, analyzing trends and gathering new insights thro…

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