Radical, self-proclaimed anti-racist author Ibram Kendi journeyed over the The Late Show on CBS for Stephen Colbert’s Thursday-taped show and miraculously the duo managed to not burn Ed Sullivan Theater to the ground despite all the torched strawmen that say Kendi’s critics want avoid teaching about slavery in schools.
Colbert began by falsely asserting that people are trying to prevent the history of racism from being taught, “: One of the arguments you hear in opposition to talking to young children or to teaching elementary-level school children about racism or the history of racism in America, their argument goes something along the lines of, ‘Well, you're going to make white kids feel bad about being white.’ What—what-- is your response to that?”
It’s not that white kids could feel bad for learning history, it’s the teaching that America was founded as a racist country and continues to be a racist country despite all the progress and they therefore are complicit in perpetuating white supremacy. None of the states that have passed laws in response to Kendi-ism have prevented schools from teaching real history.
Still, Kendi also falsely asserted, “Well, I would say those people are most concerned about or teaching of slavery. So let's just talk about slavery.”
Trying to make himself seem more reasonable, he added “If we teach white kids about slavery, we're going to teach them that there were white people who enslaved people and there were black people who were enslaved. And we're also going to teach them that there were white people and black people who challenged and fought against slavery. And—and-- so my question back to them would be, ‘Why can't we allow white children to identify with white abolitionists?’”
This is exactly what Kendi’s critics are doing. Meanwhile, it is people who believe in Kendi-ism that are demanding the removal of Abraham Lincoln statues and vandalizing monuments for the 54th Massachusetts.
Kendi concluded by declaring, “also it demonstrates to me that these folks recognize that kids are not color blind. And that how we shape the curriculum impacts our children. So then why aren't they concerned about how black kids feel when they're not represented in the curriculum?”
Maybe because Kendi and Colbert can’t accurately describe the conservative position?
This segment was sponsored by McDonald’s.
Here is a transcript for the July 1 show:
CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
7/1/2022
12:28 AM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: One of the arguments you hear in opposition to talking to young children or to teaching elementary-level school children about racism or the history of racism in America, their argument goes something along the lines of, "Well, you're going to make white kids feel bad about being white." What—what-- is your response to that?
IBRAM KENDI: Well, I would say those people are most concerned about or teaching of slavery. So let's just talk about slavery.
COLBERT: Sure.
KENDI: If we teach white kids about slavery, we're going to teach them that there were white people who enslaved people and there were black people who were enslaved. And we're also going to teach them that there were white people and black people who challenged and fought against slavery. And—and-- so my question back to them would be, "Why can't we allow white children to identify with white abolitionists?" And, you know, and also it demonstrates to me that these folks recognize that kids are not color blind. And that how we shape the curriculum impacts our children. So then why aren't they concerned about how black kids feel when they're not represented in the curriculum?
