According to him, much of the backlash emerged from the stereotype that “Black people can’t manage money.”
Ibram X. Kendi was at the top of the world in 2020. He had become the leading evangelist for the idea that Americans should strive for racial equity by active discrimination in favor of African Americans. He stated this idea quite clearly in his 2019 book How to Be an Antiracist: “The only remedy to racist discrimination,” he said, “is antiracist discrimination.” As the movement of racial reckoning swept the country following the death of George Floyd, corporate America and higher education treated Kendi’s approach to race as dogma. How to Be an Antiracist rocketed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and became required reading in schools, universities, and workplaces across the United States.
