that affirmative action is not necessary, in fact harmful. now racial neutrality is a doctrine of the land as separate but equal was a century ago. and we need a new legal movement to expose its fantastical nature. joining us now is doctor ibram x. kendi, professor and founding director of the central center for interest researcher boston university. doctor kendi, thank you so much for being here. i appreciate writing that piece because i ve been trying to make this case to my team over the weekend and they were like i don t know. will somebody go right? and you definitely did. black and zelenskyy no students are still under represented in many of our countries most public universities. but the supreme court believes that we are ready for a race neutral or even a color blind approaches to emissions. which excludes affirmative action. you called this legal fantasy. in the atlantic. why is it a legal fantasy? i think it is best to contextualize it how it was a
multiculturalism and diversity and all of these things that are seeking to create a societ of inequality are dangerous. and so, to me, i m not surprised because ever anti-racist movement, ever anti racist intellectual i this country s history has bee called dangerous by people who are trying to conserve racism. yes the reality is, if you are ant racist, it s like being anti fascist. that means you are the opposite and maybe you don t want to ow that something that folks might wan to think about doctor ibram x. kendi, thank you, and congratulations on th book series. much appreciated thank you, joy. still ahead baby steps the academy awards, a bit of improvement on diversity and inclusion. but they still got a lg onwa to go. more, next h the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes to get started. then work with professionals to assist your business
amendments this bill is taking so many things i m speaking on why you should not accept these amendments it s exactly what we re speaking on this committee gets to decide what we do i started off my speech here by saying i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to speak however, i take that back pause you are not allowing us to speak. well, they tried to share their objections, anyway in an open letter, central high school students took issue with sanders invoking the history of their school in her state of the union rebuttal specifically the nine black students who desegregated it under national guard escort in 1957 the current students wrote, if governor sanders had her way, we wouldn t be able to examine how racism shaped these structures to allow for those violations to take place joining me now is dr. ibram x. kendi, his newest book is the