{"id":1104172,"date":"2021-12-09T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104172"},"modified":"2021-12-09T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:28:55","slug":"report-ibram-x-kendi-made-university-of-wisconsin-delete-its-video-of-his-30000-hour-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-ibram-x-kendi-made-university-of-wisconsin-delete-its-video-of-his-30000-hour-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ibram X. Kendi Made University of Wisconsin Delete Its Video of His $30,000\/Hour Lecture"},"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\">30<\/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%2Freport-ibram-x-kendi-made-university-of-wisconsin-delete-its-video-of-his-30000-hour-lecture%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=1104172&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/48625086298_ec361db3d8_o-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Critical Race Theory proponent and&nbsp;\u201cantiracist\u201d millionaire Ibram X. Kendi was reportedly paid nearly $45,000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to promote his books and train faculty and students, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/09\/exclusive-ibram-x-kendi-raked-in-45k-from-university-of-wisconsin-made-school-delete-lecture\/\">report<\/a> by The Federalist.&nbsp;Kendi also made the university delete his lecture from a private server after apparently fumbling his response to a question from someone who asked if coronavirus vaccine mandates are racist.<\/p>\n<p>The event, titled \u201cAn Evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi,\u201d took place on September 21 at the taxpayer-funded university, where Kendi made&nbsp;$40,000 gross, plus an additional $3,500 stipend for travel, flights, and meals \u2014 about $207 per minute,&nbsp;The Federalist found via public records.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJoin us for an evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of \u2018How to Be an Antiracist, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\u2019 and other books,\u201d a UWM press release for the event read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Kendi is one of America\u2019s foremost historians and antiracist scholars,\u201d the press release added. \u201cAt UWM, Professor Kendi will participate in a conversation on antiracism with UWM\u2019s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [DEI] Officer, Dr. Chia Youyee Vang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around&nbsp;630 tickets were printed for the event. Nearly 400 of them were reserved for students, and 90 were printed for the general public at an admission rate of $12 each. The other tickets were&nbsp;for the \u201ccampus community\u201d and Vang\u2019s VIP cohort, for a cost of $10 each, The Federalist reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The university\u2019s&nbsp;Kendi event was reportedly sponsored by UWM\u2019s board of regents, division of student affairs, student involvement center, division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and the group Leaders Igniting Transformation. The event lasted for three and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda also included an hour-long so-called \u201cprofessional development series with UWM faculty and staff,\u201d as well as&nbsp;a 45-minute meeting with a maximum of 25 student leaders, a 30-minute private book signing, and the one-hour talk with Vang.<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist reports that the complete fee breakdown for Kendi\u2019s event included the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>$30,000 for 60-minute event conversation<\/p>\n<p>$5,000 for 45-minute meet and greet with UWM student leaders<\/p>\n<p>$5,000 60-minute professional development session on anti-racism with a group of UWM faculty and staff<\/p>\n<p>$3,500 for airfare and meals for two people<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While it remains unclear why Kendi made the university&nbsp;delete his remarks,&nbsp;Mythinformed \u2014 a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that promotes critical thinking and viewpoint diversity \u2014 alleged Kendi forced UWM to delete the event \u201cbecause we asked him if vaccine mandates are racist policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of standing on principle, he offered a horrible answer that exposed him,\u201d the group added. \u201cHe then contacted Twitter to lock us out for sharing the video. We still have the receipts.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.453257790368\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kendi forced UWM to delete this event because we asked him if vaccine mandates are racist policies. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of standing on principle, he offered a horrible answer that exposed him.<\/p>\n<p>He then contacted Twitter to lock us out for sharing the video. We still have the receipts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C9HwRFh9Cf\">https:\/\/t.co\/C9HwRFh9Cf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MythinformedMKE\/status\/1468948762668109827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In September \u2014 when the UWM event was held \u2014 Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/09\/24\/twitter-censors-video-exposing-ibram-x-kendi\/\">reportedly<\/a> locked the official account of the nonpartisan non-profit after it shared a video of Kendi embarrassing himself by attempting to wriggle his way around the question regarding vaccine mandates, which fit his definition of systemic racism by disproportionately affecting black Americans. Kendi\u2019s silence put him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/23\/nolte-unlike-blm-ibram-x-kendi-refuses-declare-vaccine-mandates-racist\/\">at odds<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/26\/ny-blm-leader-de-blasios-vaccine-mandate-racist-specifically-targets-black-new-yorkers\/\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> on the issue, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/24\/black-lives-matter-leader-calls-vaccine-mandates-racist-promises-uprising-against-id-system\/\">organizers<\/a> in New York City have protested Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s vaccine mandate which barred black residents from eating at restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ibram X. Kendi: Are Vaccine Mandates Racist?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7zq-zChKSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kendi was able to conceal his appearance because of an \u201caudiovisual recording <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/545631757\/Audiovisual-Recording-Addendum-UW-Kendi\">addendum<\/a>\u201d clause Penguin had UWM sign, The Federalist reports.<\/p>\n<p>Per the contract, UWM \u201cremove[d] the recording on Oct. 5, 2021\u201d from its \u201cinternal\u201d database and forwarded footage of Kendi\u2019s lecture to the speakers bureau within 30 days. Public records custodian Colleen Ference-Burke noted in a letter that&nbsp;Kendi maintains the copyright to event recordings.<\/p>\n<p>As an advocate of Critical Race Theory, Kendi has pushed bizarre demands for a federal bureaucracy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/09\/dulis-critical-race-theorys-endgame-is-a-thought-police-amendment-to-the-constitution\/\">police<\/a> what he believes are \u201cracist ideas.\u201d His activism has been embraced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/06\/critical-race-theory-ibram-x-kendi-speak-teachers-union-conference\/\">teachers\u2019 unions<\/a>, corporations, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/15\/navy-chief-defends-putting-book-on-racism-on-navy-reading-list-we-have-to-understand-ourselves\/\">U.S. military<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/08\/24\/how-to-be-an-anti-racist-author-ibram-x-kendi-launching-hollywood-production-company-to-push-content-on-racism-equity\/\">Hollywood<\/a>, among other entities.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Race Theory proponent and\u00a0\u201cantiracist\u201d millionaire Ibram X. Kendi was reportedly paid nearly $45,000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to promote his books and train faculty and students, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}