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Amazon Bought Critical Race Theory Books For Affluent Virginia Schools
Tech giant Amazon rolled out the red carpet for a Virginia school district, donating thousands to support critical race theory initiatives.
Emails obtained by Parents Defending Education indicate Amazon was asked by the director of diversity and inclusion at Arlington Public Schools to send copies of critical race theory activist Ibram X. Kendi’s book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.” Amazon provided 500-600 copies to the school worth $5,000 and spent $10,000 to get the co-author of Kendi’s book, Jason Reynolds, to speak with students, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
Commentary By Hans Bader | June 23, 2021 | 5:30pm EDT
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Amazon donated hundreds of copies of a racist, error-filled book by a critical race theorist to public schools. In doing so, it helped poison young minds, and taught high-school students falsehoods about America’s history and politics. It did this at the urging of a school official in Arlington, Va.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that “Amazon spent $5,000 to distribute hundreds of copies” of “Ibram X. Kendi’s book” Stamped “to Virginia public school students” in Arlington, Va. The “key concept” Kendi teaches is that society needs to discriminate against whites to make up for past discrimination against blacks. Kendi says, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Kendi o