{"id":1036238,"date":"2021-11-20T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036238"},"modified":"2021-11-20T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:59:43","slug":"after-rittenhouse-acquittal-ibram-x-kendi-says-trump-supporters-are-fighting-to-maintain-white-male-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-rittenhouse-acquittal-ibram-x-kendi-says-trump-supporters-are-fighting-to-maintain-white-male-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Rittenhouse Acquittal, Ibram X. Kendi Says Trump Supporters Are \u2018Fighting To Maintain White Male Supremacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-rittenhouse-acquittal-ibram-x-kendi-says-trump-supporters-are-fighting-to-maintain-white-male-supremacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Critical Race Theorist and Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi attributed Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal to a desire to \u201cmaintain white male supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse \u2014 a teenager charged with murder for fatally shooting two men and injuring a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty\">declared<\/a> not guilty on Friday afternoon. Following the verdict, Kendi said on Twitter that he is \u201cthinking about\u201d an article he wrote last year in The Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are fighting to maintain white male supremacy,\u201d he quoted from the article. \u201cWhich is to say, they are defending law and order. Defending their America \u2014 where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wrote it last year. Thinking about it now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RittenhouseVerdict?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RittenhouseVerdict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are fighting to maintain white male supremacy. Which is to say, they are defending law and order. Defending their America\u2014where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VZWv56LBuS\">https:\/\/t.co\/VZWv56LBuS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrIbram\/status\/1461770270629187584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/09\/armed-defenders-white-male-supremacy\/616192\/\">article<\/a>, which discusses the summer of 2020 as the \u201csummer of Trumpism,\u201d denounces Trump for claiming that Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense \u2014 a conclusion supported by evidence revealed during the trial. As Kendi wrote:<\/p>\n<p>The summer ended on August 25, when Kyle Rittenhouse borrowed an AR-15-style assault rifle from a friend and allegedly fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony M. Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz. These three people had been demonstrating in Kenosha, Wisconsin, against the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. Trump suggested that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. \u201cHe was trying to get away from them,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd he fell and then they very violently attacked him \u2026 He probably would have been killed\u201d if he didn\u2019t defend himself with lethal force.<\/p>\n<p>The violence of Chauvin and Rittenhouse bookended the summer of Trumpism. The three long, hot months from May 25 to August 25 compressed 413 years of American history into a cellphone video in which anyone could easily see the history for what it has always been: the violent \u201cself-defense\u201d of white male supremacy. Colonialism, capitalism, slavery and slave trading, Indian removal, manifest destiny, colonization, the Ku Klux Klan, Chinese exclusion, disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, eugenics, massive resistance, \u201claw and order,\u201d Islamophobia, family separation \u2014 all were done in the name of defending life or civilization or freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Following the verdict, Washington Post politics reporter Eugene Scott also quoted from the article: \u201cWhenever white male supremacy shoots, assaults, violates, devastates, exploits \u2014 no matter what,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Race Theorist and Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi attributed Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal to a desire to \u201cmaintain white male supremacy.\u201dRittenhouse \u2014 a teenager charged with murder for fatally shooting two men and injuring a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 was declared not guilty on Friday afternoon. Following the verdict, Kendi said on Twitter that he is \u201cthinking about\u201d an article he wrote last year in The Atlantic.\u201cThey are fighting to maintain white male supremacy,\u201d he quoted from the article. \u201cWhich is to say, they are defending law and order. Defending their America \u2014 where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.\u201dWrote it last year. Thinking about it now. #RittenhouseVerdict\u201cThey are fighting to maintain white male supremacy. Which is to say, they are defending law and order. Defending their America\u2014where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/VZWv56LBuS\u2014 Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) November 19, 2021The article, which discusses the summer of 2020 as the \u201csummer of Trumpism,\u201d denounces Trump for claiming that Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense \u2014 a conclusion supported by evidence revealed during the trial. As Kendi wrote:The summer ended on August 25, when Kyle Rittenhouse borrowed an AR-15-style assault rifle from a friend and allegedly fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony M. Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz. These three people had been demonstrating in Kenosha, Wisconsin, against the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. Trump suggested that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. \u201cHe was trying to get away from them,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd he fell and then they very violently attacked him \u2026 He probably would have been killed\u201d if he didn\u2019t defend himself with lethal force.The violence of Chauvin and Rittenhouse bookended the summer of Trumpism. The three long, hot months from May 25 to August 25 compressed 413 years of American history into a cellphone video in which anyone could easily see the history for what it has always been: the violent \u201cself-defense\u201d of white male supremacy. Colonialism, capitalism, slavery and slave trading, Indian removal, manifest destiny, colonization, the Ku Klux Klan, Chinese exclusion, disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, eugenics, massive resistance, \u201claw and order,\u201d Islamophobia, family separation \u2014 all were done in the name of defending life or civilization or freedom.Following the verdict, Washington Post politics reporter Eugene Scott also quoted from the article: \u201cWhenever white male supremacy shoots, assaults, violates, devastates, exploits \u2014 no matter what, there is the projection of innocence. Gun residue on his hands. Innocent. Blood on his hands. Innocent. Stolen life savings in his hands. Innocent.\u201d\u201cWhenever white male supremacy shoots, assaults, violates, devastates, exploits\u2014no matter what, there is the projection of innocence. Gun residue on his hands. Innocent. Blood on his hands. Innocent. Stolen life savings in his hands. Innocent,\u201d @DrIbram https:\/\/t.co\/P4ECAQjttT\u2014 Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) November 19, 2021Last month, Kendi posted and later deleted a tweet that accidentally refuted the entirety of his left-wing worldview.Kendi shared an article from The Hill observing that many white students applying to college falsely claim that they belong to racial minority groups \u2014 specifically, \u201cto improve their chances of getting accepted\u201d or \u201cget minority-focused financial aid.\u201d Kendi commented: \u201cMore than a third of White students lied about their race on college applications, and about half of these applicants lied about being Native American. More than three-fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted.\u201dSocial media users noted that the article upended Kendi\u2019s belief in a \u201csystemic racism\u201d that inherently disadvantages minority students. Kendi then posted another Twitter thread reaffirming his narrative.\u201cThe anti-CRT crusade has spread this belief that White Americans are the victims of racism. As I posted last week, more than a third of White students lie about their race when applying for college, according to an online survey,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd there\u2019s hardly any accountability \u2014 three-fourths of the White students lying on their applications about their race are receiving acceptance letters in return.\u201dKendi also lambasted \u201cdisinformation operatives\u201d for \u201cdistorting\u201d the deleted tweet\u2019s \u201cimplications.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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