Ibram Kendi, This is Why You Never Mess With God

The Logic of Anti-Racism and the Claim of Structural Advantage

And so to love this country and to love humanity is to push humanity constructively to be a better form of itself. And there's no way we're going to be a better form. There's no way we can build a better humanity while we still have on the shackles of racism.

More than a third of white students lied about their race on college applications, and about half of these applicants lied about being Native American. More than three-fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted.

That feel when you accidentally blow up your entire life's work in a tweet and have to delete. Celebrity critical race academic Ibram Kendi tweeted out a story about how white university applicants identified as people of color for better treatment.

He deleted the tweet after realizing it didn't advance his argument of systemic white privilege. Lie about what I said to defend the lying of white college applicants. Here is their tortured line of thinking.

When white applicants think they have an advantage by lying about being a person of color then that means they do have an advantage, which then means structural racism doesn't exist. They imagine white people are disadvantaged while white people are on the higher end of nearly every racial disparity.

They imagine black and native people have racial advantages at the same time black and native people are on the lowest end of nearly every racial disparity. We all saw your tweet that you deleted. It's accurate reporting.

Then why delete the tweet? Well, that's the implication of what you posted. White applicants aren't pretending to be minorities because there is a disadvantage to being a minority college applicant.

Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, and the Spread of Critical Race Theory

Do you know the name Ibram X. Kendi? If you know the literature at all on this, then you know the name Ibram X. Kendi. If you don't know his name, you probably know the title of his book, How to Be an Antiracist.

Now, his book, How to Be an Antiracist, is being used, you know, in government agencies, in universities, Fortune 500 companies. Probably the two most popular books that people are using for diversity training are Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist.

Okay? And if you don't know his name and you don't know his book, you certainly know his ideas because they are everywhere. In fact, they're beyond everywhere. They're everywhere. Okay? There are Christian organizations and Christian ministries now who are using Ibram X. Kendi's book, How to Be an Antiracist.

It is pure critical race theory. It is critical theory, critical race theory, intersectionality on steroids. It is antithetical to biblical thinking, biblical theology, biblical ideology, and it is being used in churches all over this country and ministries all over this country in diversity training.

The Proposed Antiracist Amendment and the Cult of Antiracism

Ibram X. Kendi proposed an amendment to the Constitution, an antiracist amendment to the Constitution. Listen. This is, again, remember, this is the guy. By the way, he makes between $20 ,000 and $40 ,000 an hour for his presentations.

That $20 ,000 to $40 ,000 an hour. Fortune 500 companies are falling all over themselves to book this man to come and speak to them on diversity training. And here's his proposal. To fix the original sin of racism.

Can we just pause right there? Many have said, and I have said, I call it the cult of antiracism. It is a religion. It is a religion. They have their own doctrine. They have their own saints. They have their own canon.

They have their own priests, theologians, and Kendi's one of the theologians of this movement. But notice, this is an amendment to the Constitution, and it starts with to fix the original sin of racism.

There's a book by the title, America's Original Sin, by Jim Wallace, the founder of Sojourners. Jim Wallace is arguing that racism is America's original sin. By the way, the 1619 Project, you've probably heard of this, right?

This Pulitzer Prize winning, horrible piece of history. The 1619 Project. What is the 1619 Project all about? The 1619 Project is about moving the founding of America, or our understanding of the founding of America, from 1776 to 1619.

Because if the founding of America is 1776, then it's founded on some documents and ideas that are pretty good. But if the founding is seen as 1619, when the first slaves came to America, then America is rooted and grounded in the original sin of slavery and racism.

That's what the 1619 Project is all about at bottom. It's about getting away from the idea that America is based on what America says America is based on. To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U .S. Constitution that enshrines two anti-racist principles.

One, racial inequity is evidence of racist policy. And two, the different racial groups are equals. The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold be unconstitutional.

If you have racial inequity, and again, equity is about outcomes, right? If you have outcomes that are disparate over a specific threshold, it would make it unconstitutional. As well as racist ideas by public officials, with racist ideas and public officials clearly defined.

It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-Racism, comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. Who wants to take a guess at who's going to formally train the experts?

The DOA would be responsible for pre-clearing all local, state, and federal public policies to ensure they won't yield inequity. Monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas.

The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas. This has nothing to do with the heart.

Biblical Justice, Political Power, and the Gospel

It has everything to do with politics and power. This is antithetical to biblical justice. In every way imaginable. And here's what you need to know. Again, I'll go back to what I said earlier. The church has a big bullseye on her as the source of these inequities.

It's the root of these inequities. Listen to this from Milton Friedman. Another. A society that puts equality in the sense of equality of outcomes ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force introduced for good purposes will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. This is not how we in the body of Christ function.

We are not about gaining political power in order to force people to do justice. We are about the proclamation of the gospel recognizing that true justice must and can only come from hearts transformed through the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Our greatest political desire is freedom to proclaim the gospel in the marketplace of ideas. Amen? But guess what? Critical social justice will ultimately not tolerate proclaiming the gospel in the marketplace of ideas because it is a source and a means of oppression.

You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.