Boston University professor says Republicans are 'party of white supremacy'
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A professor at Boston University said that Republicans are "the party of white supremacy."In an op-ed for The Atlantic, Ibram X. Kendi, Boston University Andrew W. Mellon professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Antiracist Research said that Republicans are not the party of "any group of parents," but rather "the party of white supremacy."Kendi wrote in the op-ed that Republican opposition to critical race theory means it is "clearly" not the party of parents.
He stated that Republican "branding" of being the "party of parents" is a "myth" that's equivalent to "the great lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump," adding that it has been built on "false conceptual building blocks."
Instead of focusing on this very real threat, Republican politicians—to justify Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law—have cited QAnon conspiracy theories about public schools being overrun by child predators who are ‘grooming’ children to be gay. Governor Ron DeSantis reframed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill as an ‘anti-grooming’ bill. But if QAnon Republicans really cared about white children, then they would be worried about white-supremacist grooming. This is the grooming that parents of all children should be worried about," Kendi wrote.
"The Conservative Association isn't the party of guardians bringing up white children. The Conservative Association isn't the party of guardians bringing up young ladies, bringing up trans kids, bringing up children of variety, bringing up strange children, bringing up unfortunate children, bringing up migrant children.
The Conservative Faction is making it harder for these children to find out about themselves and their narratives. The Conservative Alliance is stripping guardians and instructors of their aggregate capacity to safeguard weak kids from being instilled by — or misled by — the scourge of racial oppression," Kendi wrote." This Conservative Faction isn't the party of any gathering of guardians, yet the party of racial domination," he finished up.