My Open Letter to Ibram X. Kendi - [Bonus Episode]

This month’s bonus episode is based on an open letter I wrote to Ibram X. Kendi. In the letter I invite him to have a public conversation with me on my podcast. As you know, we are living through a time in which great attention is being paid to the related issues of race, racism, and racial inequality. Even though our perspectives on these issues differ, I think conversation between myself and Ibram would be fruitful. To read my letter to Ibram head to letter.wiki/co...
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[@ColemanHughesOfficial]

Dr Ibram X. Kendi, Calling your bluff. If you can cite *one* example of me misrepresenting your statement, then I will stop pursuing a public conversation with you.

[@SkeletonModel91]

@London Bridges He doesn't have the gall or the brains to accept Coleman's challenge. As Glenn Loury remarked, we shouldn't be afraid to push back against people with mediocre arguments simply because they happen to have brown skin.

[@Nicholas_Powell]

Would you be willing to have a conversation with a layman on the issue of kendi and race?

[@MrAhoelzel]

Kendi is an empty suit...an intellectual lightweight, period.

[@thepatriot8514]

Same thing with Larry Elder, sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan and Maxine Waters won’t come on his show for the same reasons

[@levity90]

@@thepatriot8514 Why would Larry Elder not want to have a conversation with him?

[@arquilli1]

Coleman is my hero. Too many people like Kendi are allowed to rise to the top of public discourse unchecked

[@hegemonycricket2182]

Exactly. 100%

[@jeffrodemando]

And accumulating a fortune all the way up.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

huckle berry I took a journalism class with the head of the journalism department (Frank Harris III). It was pure Wokeism and this was in 2012. I’m pretty sure most formally trained journalists have imbibed a heavy dose of work nonsense.

[@jackoflava]

Calm your tits. Nothing is unchecked, this whole video is a criticism of his work. One of many. I can't understand how you can think that with so many people pushing back on his ideas, just in this comments section alone!

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

He really isn't though. White supremacists like Charles murray are accepted into the mainstream.

[@3rdgen591]

I’d be shocked if Kendi accepts invitation outside of his echo chamber.

[@leonardu6094]

Exactly. Me too

[@SkeletonModel91]

Don't hold your breath.

[@xs10tl1]

Right. He doesn't have the chops to play in public.

[@oldsalt8011]

Kendi is just to weak. Coleman is on top of his game. Kendi would fall like a house of cards.

[@RachelDee]

If Coleman could see it, we'd give him a standing ovation. Rare integrity and truth here.

[@jonathanwegner1194]

Here ya go alexsheremet.com/coleman-hughes-cannot-be-trusted/

[@jamberry8026]

You all are afraid that Blacks are going to gain power that brings them justice. Do you really think that justice for all is going to be your downfall? If so, you already fail and it just hasn't come into fruition yet, but it will. Killing us isn't going to help you.

[@gstar3569]

amen

[@LiViro1]

Why can't Coleman get a bizillion dollars from the tech industry instead of Kendi, I'm sure he (Hughes) has a lot higher probability of making things better. This guys reputation will just keep on growing in the following decades, keep it up man.

[@mr7wi]

JBP started slowly. He's just starting.

[@just_another32]

I don't think they would ever give him that sort of money. They don't support his message.

[@jeffrodemando]

A future of thriving intellectualism is not exactly a part of the plan.

[@LiViro1]

@Timothy Somerville First of all, "bizillion" isn't even a real number - for all you know it's meant to symbolize a tiny amount! But what he could do with it is to never have to do a job that takes time away from his project. He could get more help with making his message heard (producers, stuff like that). I'm convinced that he wants to make the world a better place, the investment would be sound.

[@liberality]

@@jeffrodemando It seems obvious that the world's richest white men (those that own the tech industry) have absolutely no interest in supporting objective analysis of their power. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey giving $10m to Kendi, who freely admits believing that white people were aliens, helps ensure that the USA and the world will remain divided along racial lines. It also draws attention from the fact that inequity has increased rapidly in recent decades, not between ordinary black and white people, but between the billionaire class and the rest of us. It is becoming exponentially harder for working and even middle class people to earn a living outside of the influence of the tech industry, which is tearing down economies all over the world. The only thing the tech owners have to fear is our unity and independence of them.

[@davegabriele8962]

Kendi is only against one kind of racism, fully supports another

[@marksmith2053]

Thanks Coleman, I truly appreciate not only the substance of your thoughts here, but your good faith in fostering a real conversation. Its incredibly refreshing and beyond valuable in today's climate.

[@jonathanwegner1194]

Here ya go alexsheremet.com/coleman-hughes-cannot-be-trusted/

[@SAC_-bq4vu]

Thanks Coleman Hughs for putting your voice out there. You give many black/afro latino americans like myself hope and courage to speak our piece

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

Race doesn't matter, yet you are claiming that black people can't speak their piece. If you are claiming that black people are held back, I don't see why sjws can't make the same claims. lol

[@albertogutierrez9734]

I am part Afro Latino. Done well for myself. I agree. Don't know what Kandi is talking about.

[@kevinboone2178]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn If you're joking, don't. RACE MATTERS. If you can't see it, you haven't been looking. Your eye's must be wide-open to see what most can.

[@kevinboone2178]

@@albertogutierrez9734 K E N D I . Read his books/look at his lectures on You Tube. Anecdotal evidence doesn't prove a point. And most immigrants have a sketchy understanding of American History, including as it pertains to race. It's sad to see THOSE PEOPLE talk sh** about Native Black Americans.

[@hagnuj1070]

There was no logical reason to have Coleman Hughes in the reparations discussion,other than to act as a mouthpiece for white supremacy. BTW, one of the reasons why he was so against reparations for ADOS is because his full name is Coleman CRUZ Hughes & his family is PUERTO RICAN

[@Neworldisordered]

Coleman could rest in the safety of tribal "victimhood" instead of bringing the wrath of the intersectionalist bigots. But so have others from Martin Luther to Galileo to Thomas Sowell and Glen Loury and Douglas Murray. I hope Coleman can stay strong, resist the social pressures and keep striving for truth rather than safety.

[@boogiejed5485]

@Blackskinis Amazing that doesn't sound at all like something he would say.. Any links please?

[@DavidAsh42]

@Blackskinis Amazing I believe you may be fibbing, sir.

[@RonnieD1970]

@Blackskinis Amazing can you cite glenn saying this?

[@Neworldisordered]

@Blackskinis Amazing evidence?

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

Douglass Murray is a white supremacist, why cite him?

[@FMatthewDolloff]

Both of these pieces, the open letter and the book review are just absolutely awesome. Thank you Coleman for your bravery.

[@hlewis5847]

I wish I could like this more than once.

[@just_another32]

You can but it won't register

[@tammys8711]

So true, like, like, like, like.

[@just_another32]

@@tammys8711 likity likity like...

[@Frank-pp9iy]

This dude is so smart. It’s so heartening to see rational people out there lol

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

Rational because he agrees with you? It's a benevolent Kafka trap you've set.

[@randomlady6899]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn Rational because he REASONS his way to conclusions.

[@randomlady6899]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn ‘benevolent Kafka trap’.....what you done here is called ‘projection’ in pop psychology 😂

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

John Smith He didn’t say enough to qualify for your characterization of his words. All you have accomplished is a display of your own bias.

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

@@randomlady6899 so does ibram

[@SebsDuran]

Great stuff, Coleman. My wife and I will be donating. Much love and Godspeed. Love the focus on conversation rather than owning Kendi, because although you could, you are aiming to do the really only beneficial thing: Talk. Great work.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

"A courageous book". . . long ago, this meant the author was actually risking something by writing it, like the book "The Gulag Archipelago". Kendi is being fêted by almost all the current powerful systems, and institutions, and publications. That doesn't take courage. That sounds like fun.🤷🏾‍♀️

[@just_another32]

Courageous because he talks about how he once believed some ppl were aliens perhaps. It would take some guys to admit that!

[@randomlady6899]

@@just_another32 Not that courageous if his progression is from aliens to another species. Seems to me, he made a necessary correction to get himself taken seriously.

[@just_another32]

@@randomlady6899 It was a joke. But to be fair, it would take some courage to admit that you thought people were aliens... You may be right though.

[@misterlyle.]

@@just_another32 Opening up about your inner thoughts and feelings is always courageous. The notion that there are aliens among us, nevertheless, is certainly intriguing.

[@rwatertree]

The beliefs that whites are actually aliens or that they oppress other races as a kind of survival mechanism aren't that uncommon especially among "race conscious" African Americans. Nick Cannon recently espoused similar views. Admitting to having abandoned those beliefs is less courageous than being an ex-Scientologist as Black Nationalists don't yet have their own Sea Org to track and slander apostates.

[@MrMurph73]

It's about time we started trying to have more conversations with those in disagreement in an effort to find common ground. Well done.

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

The non postmodern conservative-marxists want to silence anyone like Kendi that has an dissenting view.

[@mitchpeter5718]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn you mean a racist like kendi right?? Sure he does have dissenting views!!

[@khumomatlakane2009]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn it's barely a dissenting opinion. It's just a bunch of horny, vapid and leftist garbage. Not even suitable for dog food.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

John Smith You really are confused. Do you just type words you have seen on social media an effort to seem up to date? Postmodern Conservative-Marxists? Kendi is not a dissenting voice. He’s at the tail end of decades of people pushing exactly the same garbage he’s regurgitating. Also, he is clearly a redistributionist that wants to centralize control of the methods of redistribution. Sounds a little Marxist.

[@k4949]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn what the heck is a postmodern-conservative-marxist? Lol.

[@notificationsareblocked.yo53]

You are so important Coleman. Please take care of yourself and fight for so many of us without a voice. You deserve nothing but respect and praise.

[@meixuanshi1533]

Thank you! I (a woman of color) feel truly delighted and relieved in this chaotic time after I watched your videos! For the sake of truth seeking !

[@Neworldisordered]

Kendi is not brave, he's mainstream. Coleman, Sowell, Loury, McWhorter, Elder, ... are the brave rebels!!!

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

I don't see how someone is brave when the majority of the population agrees with you. Ibrahm's view is a dissenting one.

[@Badmarble24]

What a sad time we live in for that to be the case

[@baphometic8767]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn Perhaps Ibrahm's view is a dissenting one from what people privately believe, but it's the acceptable one in the current Overton's window.

[@Neworldisordered]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn Sorry to tell you but they control the main stream media, most levels of government., all levels of educational systems, corporations, sports and entertainment, the police, ... intersectionality became the norm while we were busy w life.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn Ah yes the "less people agree with me so I'm brave view" it ofcourse doesn't matter that the "less people" are the guilded and guarded aristocracy that can excise and exile people from society. No, no the priest in medieval europe is the radically brave one and his Inquisition is not a cowardly tyranny but the ultimate bravery *eye roll*

[@shahzadajan9792]

I have been following Coleman Hughes ever since I saw his testimony before a congressional panel alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates and was very impressed with both of them even if they stood opposed in their point of view. But Coleman struck me as a very erudite and learned young man who favours reason and reasonableness over hyperbole and passion. His views - whether you agree with them or not - are a valuable corrective for some of the more impassioned voices out there. His voice is a necessary one in this ongoing conversation about very painful subjects. What pleasantly surprises me is his immense composure and measured demeanour even in the face of hostility. I really do wish he gains a wider following and greater public recognition in the public discourse of ideas. The whole point of debate and discussion is to stress test the best ideas against the best of arguments and facts presented from the other side. The left or BLM or other thought leaders like Kendi should welcome someone who can more than stress test their ideas because surely we are all in the business of searching for truth without pride or personal ego getting in the way. I've heard it said that he is this generation's Thomas Sowell. With all respect to both men I don't think this is true. Coleman Hughes is his own man and does his own thinking rather than riff off cookie cutter explanations. For this alone he is a compelling writer and thinker to listen to. Coleman - if you read this - write your own book and that will give you a platform to mainstream your much needed ideas. Thank you.

[@andrewwood7303]

Read Sowell. His cookie cutter riffs are based on strong evidence cited in his books. Thanks for your comment.

[@shahzadajan9792]

@@andrewwood7303 My apologies. I wasn't implying that what Thomas Sowell writes are cookie cutter explanations but I can see how I may have given that false impression. Sowell is a serious economist and profound thinker and his ideas should be discussed more widely.

[@andrewwood7303]

@@shahzadajan9792 All good. It’s very difficult to be precise when presenting a public comment to thousands of people. Each of the thousand can be triggered by a misperception, (misinterpretation) however slight, of your main points. Kudos to you for taking the time to develop a coherent point - that’s very rare on social media. Thanks again.

[@blaccpanther8715]

I read this article a month ago by Coleman and I was convinced he was strawmanning Ibram Kendi so I bought Kendi's book. I was genuinely shocked.

[@SA-vz7qi]

I think the thinking in this type of book is much clearer if rather than using the term "anti-racism" you use the term "neo-racism" is suddenly work fine.

[@Neilazbiker]

Excellent! Robin DiAngelo and White Fragility should be your next open letter. We just read it and it's an illogical mess. It's embarrassing to read knowing that an academic, a PhD from an American University actually wrote it.

[@just_another32]

Yes, please do an open letter to D'Angelo herself. Offer her a choice of debate opponents, including my 4 year old nephew.

[@cmonman3639]

She's a sociologist; sociology is an activist field, not an academic one. And having a PhD does not mean you're intelligent.

[@scottttym]

The idea that white ppl or black ppl or yellow ppl or brown ppl are a "group" in the first place is a false premise from which to start.

[@arscheerio]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn what a ring. "you're a racist, and if you say otherwise, you're a racist"

[@ellisgarvin]

@@JohnSmith-hs1hn I recommend watching Coleman Hughe's video on white fragility. He discusses what you're doing in your comment, which is to say that any white person who disagrees with you is disagreeing due to white fragility. It's a circular argument and a well known logical fallacy. I'm not saying white fragility doesn't exist, but your circular argument is illogical and you should abandon it if you want to persuade any thinking person to agree with you.

[@dnk4559]

“Kendi’s goals are openly Totalitarian” Thanks Coleman for saying it. When I finished the “How to be an Anti-racist” book I felt it was devoid of ways to do just that(be anti-racist).It lacked hope or any acknowledgement of progress that has been made. If I didn’t already have long-term close relationships with black friends, I think this best-seller book would make me believe that all black people felt the way Kendi did.

[@chrisc7265]

whenever an activist tells you, "everything is about my cause. You're either for my cause or against it. There is no third option." the correct response is, "later bro"

[@DavidAsh42]

Great stuff Coleman. Thank you for being so calm and reasonable and speaking truth. That's all it takes. May we all find such courage to remain calm and speak truth.

[@SEKreiver]

Keep up this level of quality, Mr. Hughes. It will pay off.

[@patrickklepacki4077]

My open letter to Coleman Hughes: Keep it up.

[@pilgrimoffaith5320]

I've recently started using KZbin to listen to people talk about a wide variety of perspectives on a wide variety of topics from politics to religion to philosophy to the human condition. Best decision I've ever made. Remember you guys, the internet is a tool, not a toy.

[@mjschoensee93]

What a blessing. Your humility and genuine reflection I respect.

[@eleanorc.6659]

I admire Coleman's rational and truthful approach. As an overemotional person, myself, I realize emotional approaches to serious issues are counter-productive.

[@Salamander407]

I absolutely love the maturity, intelligence, and insight of coleman!!! Beyond his years!!! You are always in my prayers friend!!!!

[@jamesplunkett8154]

Everyone in the world needs to watch this video by Coleman Hughes

[@sidstam]

I'm from the UK & unfamiliar with Kendi. I couldn't help but be left with the impression - after your synopsis of his life so far and critique of his recent work - that he is suffering from a psychiatric illness.

[@megg.6651]

Thank you for this Coleman Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@tracygiesz7428]

As always, extremely well said. I hope Kendi accepts this invitation. Hughes makes incredibly thoughtful points.

[@joedellaselva1251]

Professor Kendi has found an academic vein of funding where he will do very well $$$$ as well as win awards/accolades. All academics seek that topic and the large grants associated with it. This is what has happened with Professor Kendi at Boston University. Good luck to both of them.

[@davidcronenwett2381]

You rock brother. One of the most important public intellectuals out there: rational, calm, reflective, accurate in his takedowns of critical race theory/wokeness.

[@shinrips]

You are a breath of fresh air. I love your speaking points. I love and respect all conservative speakers, Thomas Sowel, Officer Tatum, Amazing Lucas, Micelle Malkin, Jesse Lee Peterson, Sherriff David Clark, Tucker Carlson, Larry Elder, Tyrus, Tommy Sotomayor,

[@cheshur6550]

"Racial discrimination is not always racist" Hot takes there. Had to change the entire definition of a word to make sense of that one. Thomas Sowell debunked this outcome disparity argument half a century ago.

[@johnbutler7321]

Such a thoughtfully composed and delivered review. No raised voice, no name calling. Just honestly and evenhandedly engaging the ideas and submitting them to close scrutiny.

[@hanachelache66]

What a great idea Coleman! I'd love to see you debate him. I have just finished Kendi's book and I agree with your critique. You always challenge me. Best of luck. 😉

[@SamSepiolTheHeretic]

Coleman you could easily go long with Kendi’s vision, like so many have. But you don’t. You truly are an inspiring figure in these tough times.

[@pt1122]

Coleman is the Pete Maravich of intellectuals...a wizard with words and thoughts.

[@gabrielnito6606]

Holy shit, this review was savage. The effort push forward with this conversation is admirable.

[@brandowhitemusic]

"There are no non-racist ideas. Only racist ideas and anti-racist ideas." This is how people think when they see everything as being about them. No topic, person, or idea is allowed to be neutral or unrelated. Kendi is an establishment-celebrated charlatan who thinks he is an anti-establishment prophet. He'd say the sun, moon, and stars were racist if he could benefit from it.

[@markbrown4955]

A highly intelligent man, who uses an analytical approach to ALL the facts to consider the issues. Not a cherry picker aiming merely to find a few handy points to back a specific political point. I hope this debate takes place, I however doubt that Mr Kendi fancies putting facts up against his opinions. Keep up the good work Coleman, I admire you and your fearless investigation of truth.

[@lindapaone5650]

Coleman is my hero

[@cornydad]

People like Hughes is what will reduce racism. There is racism but not creating fake racism.

[@giuppydaura4462]

your brightness and lucidity are overwhelming, and you are able to debunk any idea with facts and reasoning as only few intellectuals can do in the world.

[@just_another32]

No you won't. Because I will be. :D

[@giuppydaura4462]

@@just_another32 (and also i would have married him but he is straight! total youtube-crush)

[@kirstenwaerstad8337]

Coleman never ceases to impress! Thanks so much for adding sanity and reason to the race dialogue by exposing views that instill division but offer no real solutions.

[@KarenLoTucker]

Really love that you're adding your voice to an important conversation. Keep at it!

[@ronarubin]

Coleman, you are so brave and an inspiration. Please keep putting truth out there so we can be a more United America.

[@BurgundyKRO]

Great work, Coleman. Humanity needs you.

[@christopherdew2355]

Coleman is the sane voice of our time. He should be more widely heard. As a teacher nearly three times his age, I cannot listen to enough of him!

[@plain_simple_garak]

Kendi is a great example of why we should constantly examine and challenge our own assumptions. This guy had a dumb idea, that inequity = racism, accepted it as a universal and incontrovertible fact, and then ran with it right into the ground while ignoring the blatantly obvious logical problems that follow from it. The fact that anyone takes this book seriously is astounding

[@tammys8711]

Yeah astounding is right, Thomas and Walter (RIP) could've set him straight.

[@kevinboone2178]

Hey, Joker. Follow your advice to examine and challenge one's assumptions. In an American context, inequity, which is "a lack of fairness or justice," is also racism when applied to the lived experience of the Native Black American lineage, for example, and heretofore wasn't controversial to say. But fairly recently when acolytes of the Trumptonian Republican Party and some others said it was, all hell broke loose. Again.

[@kevinboone2178]

@@tammys8711 Their myopic view of reality and history renders their analysis of race one-sided. When compared to White Americans and immigrants (past and present), American History informs the negative health, social, psychological and economic behavior, and prospects, of Native Black Americans. For combating it, anti-racist policy governing its future potential must be at the forefront. And to his credit, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi offers some viable ways forward, racist troglodytes and some others notwithstanding.

[@540BC]

The last few minutes about his totalitarianism was really frightening. Thank you young man for standing up to it

[@amorfati4927]

“How to Become an Anti-Racist” is a tough book to get through if you’re a human being with a single iota free thought and don’t just eat what every they throw in front of your face with a spoon. Like Coleman said, sources that are basically nothing but pop articles. The way to equity is to judge everything and make policies about race from here to antiquity. So on and so forth. It makes me seriously question anyone I meet in person that says they read it and say it as a good book or tell people to read it because it is good (and I tend not to be one to judge people on any thing they do or say).

[@HBK358]

I genuinely think most people who buy the book either do it out of guilt and never read it or they skim it. The book is absurd in not only the conclusions it tries to draw, but the confessions he makes and the remedies he offers. Literally a totalitarian state obsessed with race at all times.

[@ifihadfriends437]

I read it with review in mind. I found it enjoyable in that there was much for me to address and write notes for - it certainly kept me on my toes.

[@randomlady6899]

@@HBK358 I think it’s become like the modern day Bible. All those who want to signal their piety keep a copy at home. They learn a couple of verses to tweet as a signal that they’ve read it. But in reality, very few actually read it because it’s a boring and difficult read compared to tweeting. The highest virtue of Wokeism is virtue signalling itself.

[@angelhelen84]

Read Shelby Steele’s book White Guilt to cleanse your mind pallet.

[@personaladvisorytv]

Coleman cites the progression of immigrants like Haitians and Nigerians to contrast and support an argument that an even playing field for African Americans exist. African Americans have a varied relationship with America. The poverty in those emigrated nations are higher, which creates a different work ethic, focus and opportunity appreciation for what they think America is. This literally creates a different brain chemistry that can be observed through neural pathways (crazy but true). What the blip do we know? African Americans have been incubated by materialism. Immigrants don’t give a dam about Jordans or Gucci. The American dream is hyper promoted to Haitians, Nigerians and the entire world. African Americans have lived it. All to say, African Americans have a warped symbiotic relationship with America, immigrants have none. Outside of terrorizing blacks off their land in the early to present 20th century, systematic racist heirloom laws has led to 90% land lost. Crack cocaine has destroyed many potential thriving blacks communities. Black Codes and Jim Crow worked hand in hand to further sustain inequality. Redlining, the denial of life insurance, and the multitude of black prosperous cities that were destroyed by racist whites contributed to black socio economic non progression. Mass incarceration, incentivizing welfare to destabilize black family structures (most immigrant families are intact), Negativity distributed to black American youth via music, Operation Black Messiah all are a few “fashionable” facts that lead to epigenetic stress immigrants don’t have. One may conclude that blacks who are the exception to the rule of the majority suffer from a stockholm like syndrome when it comes to pointing the finger at the hand who feds them. On the contrary, these historical facts support an argument for the existence of racist “Orwellian” super villains. Is Coleman suggesting we should ignore history and approach any possible claims of racism as if we are robots, with statistics, algorithms and empirical facts which can be easily be skewed like the Flint Michigan water crisis lead levels before the truth came out, that effected mostly “you know who”. A basic knowledge of historical proven tactics used against African Americans to cause socio economic instability is enough to connect the dots that may not always be obvious, that African Americans are systematically targeted. And of course non systematic racists ideas cannot be eradicated, that’s highly deflective and far from what Kendi suggests. Systematic discrimination targeted at a race is “racism” and leads to inequality which is measured by inequity. “Racism” CAN be abolished by a robust system of checks and balances that doesn’t lead to African Americans being marginalized when it comes to redlining, mass incarceration, heirloom laws, and other instances that lead to inequity. Literal racial equity is impossible, doesn’t mean we ignore a historical rigged system when it comes to blacks? The goal shouldn’t be equal equity, but equality. Non intrusive equality will lead to sustainable equity and equal equity wouldn’t be a talking point. Kendi solutions may not be perfect, but is an logically honest and akin to think tanks that currently exist globally to solve a multitude of institutional problems they didn’t cause. Where would African Americans be today if cities like Tulsa where blacks owned oil refiners weren’t destroyed? Where and when have blacks destroyed white cities? Blacks had many autonomous zones in America since emancipation void of systematic intrusion they built to gain equity. They were destroyed, now African Americans are playin catchup mentally, emotionally, socially, thus economically. Case and point: When positive hip hop was becoming an instrument of change for African Americans, it was replaced with what you hear today by no say so by the recipients of the negative values it promotes. That's systematic racism. Doesn’t a future of economic stability, progression and abundance lay in the historical efforts, planning, values, building and decisions of our forefathers? Did blacks not have land, skills and built cities for their future generations right after they worked for free for 400yrs? Is it honest to critique the status of African Americans today while ignoring the systematic racist truths of history that altered the potential and contributed to the current status of African Americans today?

[@sadpanda1775]

Coleman Hughes is the hope for the future!!

[@brotherwill7389]

Leftists don’t debate, all the while urging others to have the “tough conversations.” Go Coleman.

[@beback_]

I'm amazed at how fair you were. I didn't know it was even possible in today's political climate.

[@karinak09]

That proposed amendment was terrifying

[@kmacksmcdonald6475]

HR 40 Sponsored by Sheila Jackson Lee. Also Cory Booker supports it.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

I’m so glad I watched this. Your analysis gives me a very simple question to ask my kid’s principal when he starts talking about equity. I will ask him if he has read Kendi (I suspect he has) and if he agrees with Kendi’s analysis. Most people I speak to directly about equity seem to have conflated it with equality. They think equity is about fairness. They don’t see the Trojan horse the apparently harmless term represents.

[@Ronin969]

problem is, marxism of all sorts is based on "subjective truth". it was a big slap in the face when i realized i was talking to people who didn't care about truth

[@matthaze9765]

As I've looked into Kendi's and other activist preachers in this genre, it appears obvious that higher education has taken History courses, Bent their shape, added personally subjective views, presenting hypotheses driven explanations for all perceived injustices and their solutions as if they are objectively scientific facts. This type of writing is fantastic for articles in entertainment and culture magazines, but they are full of logical and psychological holes which fail to meet what I would agree as academic standards worthy of becoming course study. It's incredible to find such claims made as THE solutions to various current "inequities/equalities", as if the "problems" have known solutions that somehow politicians and thinkers around the world haven't yet managed to discover, enact and explore. Clearly, admin at Universities have decided to fast track journalistic hypothetical story tellers into Professorship, without regard to or with the intent to influence the political stance of students at the careless expense of complex data factored in. I don't even need to take those classes to be capable of spotting the cascade of logical fallacies and subjective tangents. The most crucial education should be rigorous exercises in how to think and apply classical Reason at masterful levels so that the population is capable of discernment between all areas of information being fed to their consciousness.

[@nyknick2133]

I have not read “Antiracist”, but “Stamped From The Beginning” should be read by everyone. I now know where and how the constructs “Black” and “White” come from. Looking forward to reading Antiracist. I commend Mr. Hughes for having the conversation with Mr. Kendi.

[@John-kx5po]

I hope Kendi agrees to appear on your show and discuss the topics in a reasonable manner. I look forward to watching it.

[@marianmalcolm4199]

PLEASE: For the good of our community and country. Please talk about this, from both sides.

[@RM-tr7bk]

Well done, Coleman. Honorable and in the spirit of free debate. In such an environment the best ideas, if well presented, will prevail. Please keep it up.

[@CerebralFriction]

I've been waiting for this

[@happy2be918]

Coleman, so educated on the subject that he wishes to challenge. His anylysis will be viewed for decades to come as a text book on how lies are spread to the general public. People are actually taking Kendi's worthless comparisons and ideologies as truth- like a religion. Thank you Coleman.

[@liberallovey-doveyministry7193]

Coleman, can you write a George-Orwell-style novel about Kendi’s future?

[@siddhartha_1]

You are a torch in the darkness my friend, keep up the brilliant work

[@Appleblade]

You have to wonder how long people could live under Kendi's system... it would be something like Stalinism or Maoism, I suppose, because the Ring of Power has a will of its own.

[@hlewis5847]

And yet, ask the tibetians if china is either anti racist or ant colonialist.

[@nikolaneberemed]

If we let people like Kendi solve the problem of slavery back in the day, they would have made slaves into slave owners and slave owners into slaves. And after a while, when the new slaves said slavery was a problem and needs to be addressed, they would have flipped the giant turd upside down again and patted themselves on the back for doing an excellent job and being on the right side of history. The level of stupidity in these people would be amusing if it weren't so sad.

[@oscarc5391]

Coleman Hugh I must say as a lefty more on economic issues then social issues I really enjoy listening to your thoughts and analysis on different issues .I don't believe that people can legislate racism away, but I do believe that starting at youth we can teach respect and thoughtfulness and maybe kindness and a better understanding of different cultures, and not all progressive or like myself believe that everything should have an equal outcome some of us just don't see how a world where a very small group have and use so much of the world's resources while the rest fight for what is left some of us don't see that as having a happy ending for anyone

[@carlosgaspar8447]

"capitalism is essentially racist" yet writes a book that becomes a best seller. maybe by the time kendi reaches thomas sowell's age he will reassess his views.

[@roberthodgins6584]

I believe Thomas was in fact, communist in his youth/early collegiate years. So there may be hope!

[@stylezNsmilez]

@@roberthodgins6584 Specifically Marxist

[@persona2]

@@roberthodgins6584 Yes, I believe he has mentioned that he was more of an "angry black activist" in the 60's. That's not knocking his character at all, I think it speaks to how mature he is and how much he has grown since then.

[@margaretswartz3348]

Yep, that's where the money is baby!

[@lollie6822]

Ha ha

[@AlexADalton]

Honestly I am not on either side of this highly polarized debate around race - just trying to take it all in and learn. But Coleman is a breath of fresh air with his clarity of thought. I hope he starts to publish his analysis in book form soon, and gets more mainstream media exposure.

[@wrlord]

Don't hold your breath. Kendi is too shrewd to believe his own BS.

[@LDM805]

There's a lot of money to be made in racism.

[@1DangerMouse1]

The policy proposals by Ibram X Kendi are TERRIFYING!! What a quack dogmatist. The fact that Michele Alexander, author of The New jim Crow, recommends and encourages his writings and arguments is terrible (also seriously draws her credibility into question). Thank you for the excellent review. Loved the Manicheanism reference. We need far more people like you in the world.

[@GradyLocklear]

One of the best things is the Sam Harris-esque "OK..." at the end

[@AlphaCrucis]

I noticed that too, heheh.

[@jngarr]

Coleman, it's virtually impossible to find we'll reasoned analysis of the core of today's "popular" writings, especially on social issues. I have just found yours. Superior! You restore my hope that some people exist that can question and seek answers using evidence. Keep moving forward and maybe the wise will follow you.

[@rodblues6832]

I wish you luck with this. I'm very much in your camp on this, even though I think Mr Kendi is a genuinely good person. Unfortunately, it's unlikely he'll agree to any forum where he's not being perpetually nodded at. "Debate" doesn't usually fall within the skill set of the far left.

[@Nicolae_Mew]

In 2020 some of the best debaters are on the far left, or what Americans consider the far left.

[@bovinicide]

I like how he is so deadpan with his harsh, but reasoned criticism.

[@TavernierBound]

Based on Ibram’s (and CRT) beliefs, there should be a lot of professional athletic positions opening for white people. I assume he is for the flat tax too, as our current progressive taxes are clearly racist based on their inequitable impact to whites. The only way to end racism is to have one set of rules and protections for all. Equal opportunity and equal justice should be the goals, not an unattainable equal outcome. Keep it up Coleman!

[@LearnEnglishwithJames.]

Keep up the good work Coleman! You're a voice for so many of us who don't have one. Thank you

[@Doutsoldome]

I'll venture to make a prediction: he will refuse the invitation.

[@ns81]

Better yet, ignore

[@gordeady6802]

Coleman is a breath of fresh air!

[@mattbabb.]

The “Department of Antiracism” - The DOA Wonder if he’s making a pun there. The other meaning of DOA is quite apropos 😆

[@bartolomeugusmao4445]

This is how you tackle a subject. With method, logic, intelligence and hard work; not by creating half-baked concepts and avoiding counter-arguments by calling names to those who disagree with us. Bravo, Mr. Hughes. You just need a bit more practice with your voice and intonation - just relax a bit more, and keep practicing. But your thought and focus is flawless. Chapeau!

[@chrismartinez5711]

A̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶L̶a̶t̶i̶n̶o̶ ̶I̶ ̶ I fucking love you, man. please. Please keep the conversation going. Listening to you and John McWhorter give me so much hope. I was really losing hope that the fight against CRT and wokeness was not going to come from the Left, but from equally pugilistic and anti-intellectual conservative pundits.

[@alexgibson2871]

interesting how the CRT proponents, keep focusing on the right (or alt right, whoever they are) and just ignore the left-of-centre. It seems that if they engage any intelligent people on the left, it weakens the position - they are better off if people cannot see the arguments laid out, the claims, the 'evidence' in support of them, and the counter-arguments. if these conversations are accessible (along with the semantics involved) then the left will surely be inoculated against guilt or economic arguments, or the faulty causational chain from pre abolitionist history to present day reparations. Seems to me this and $$$ are the reasons for the failure to show.

[@thomassenbart]

Coleman is the man!

[@karlpopper601]

This book reads like one that was written in the times of culture revolution. Mao's idea further radicalized Marxism, developed the clsss struggle practice into a crazy climax.

[@lollie6822]

Yes, turn in mom or dad if necessary

[@gabrielnito6606]

Wow, I was genuinely surprised by the uncanny comparability of Kendi’s proposal with the policies enforced by “Big Brother” in Orwell’s piece !

[@jeffreyscott4997]

Am I the only one who sees similarities to the Constitution after Kendi's proposed changes, and the Constitution of Iran?

[@davidha5078]

Thank you Mr. Hughes for this very evenly approached and we'll though out response to what might be one of the most important books if out time. I look forward to hopefully seeing and or hearing a conversation between you and Mr. Kendi.

[@amadeusdebussy6736]

Kendi is the quintessential "man with a hammer."

[@marierhodes9675]

Wow. I am all in and I appreciate your cogent explanation regarding the weakness of the arguments Dr. Kendi sold as fact. The approach he offers will undermine the American framework and it terrifies me that so many people have suggested it is somehow luminary. Thank you for telling me what to do to help.

[@4Distractiononly]

I appreciate Coleman's intellectual integrity and self reflection. But his rationality and devotion to truth without ideology will likely be lost on Kendi. Or any of the Woke.

[@EM-cg4iy]

WOW. Coleman knocking it out of the park!

[@Podcastforthewin]

That opening base line is killer.

[@BBrunswick]

You are frighteningly bright and articulate. It is both a pleasure and educational listening to you. Very impressive