Boston University announced this week that it would broaden its inquiry into Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) after allegations of severe financial mismanagement.
Based on testimonies from several former CAR staffers, BU’s independent school newspaper, The Daily Free Press reported that “the Center appeared to prioritize fundraising and revenue over research.”
Kendi founded the CAR at Boston University on the heels of the destructive summer 2020 race riots to advance racial equity and social justice.” The center’s launch was quickly popularized by fawning corporate media, which used the summer’s racial unrest as an excuse to promote Kendi’s work.
It wasn’t long before the center raked in at least $43 million in donations from big names like Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, the Rockefeller Foundation, Peloton, and other big businesses that make a habit of supporting leftist-led activism. Their contributions stirred up even more PR for CAR. Small donors who were told sending money to a Kendi pet project would help them become “antiracist” also contributed to the CAR cash grab.
To put it simply, CAR was uncritically promoted by the press simply because its goals fit the media’s preferred political agenda. The Claremont Institute’s BLM Funding Database found that more than $99 billion dollars were funneled to “BLM Movement & Related Causes” like the CAR.
Now, just three years into the center’s existence, the center, once hailed by corporate media and frequented by Democrat politicians, is falling apart. Amid the mounting scrutiny from BU over CAR’s
