BU Prof. Dir @AntiracismCtr. Nat’l Book Award-winning & #1 NYT Bestselling Author of #HowToBeAnAntiracist, #Stamped & #AntiracistBaby. Next📚 #400Souls (2/2/21)

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Ibram X. Kendi retweeted
Reading “Stamped from the Beginning” by @DrIbram w/ @EvocativeReads book club 📖
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Okay what you should actually read instead of that 1776 nonsense is Stamped from the Beginning by @DrIbram. I’m only a third of way in but it’s a must read.
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The report claims identity politics “values people by characteristics like race, sex, and sexual orientation,” when actually identity politics points out that people are devalued in American society because of characteristics like race, sex, and sexual orientation. 6/11
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Why else would Black people say #Blacklivesmatter? Why else would women say #MeToo? These are expressions of valuing us in a society devaluing what keeps happening to us. 7/11
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Finally, the report calls for “restoring patriotic education that teaches the truth about America. That doesn’t mean ignoring the faults in our past, but rather viewing our history clearly and wholly, with reverence and love.” 8/11
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Does this mean that the descendants of enslaved people and the descendants of slaveholders should view their ancestors’ enslavement and slaveholding clearly and wholly with reverence and love? Can anything be more shameful? 9/11
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I think not. But that's the point. We're supposed to revere and love the founding fathers no matter what just as Trump wants us to revere and love him no matter what. Trump supporters call their fealty, freedom. We call their fealty, tyranny. 10/11
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The 1776 Commission Report is calling forth our fealty to tyranny. But we will resist, like we resisted the proslavery founding fathers and their ideological descendants who wrote this report. 11/11
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