{"id":1400362,"date":"2022-03-25T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400362"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:15:03","slug":"crts-ibram-kendi-likens-american-house-to-racist-nightmare-in-25k-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crts-ibram-kendi-likens-american-house-to-racist-nightmare-in-25k-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"CRT\u2019s Ibram Kendi Likens American \u2018House\u2019 To \u2018Racist\u2019 Nightmare In $25K Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fcrts-ibram-kendi-likens-american-house-to-racist-nightmare-in-25k-speech%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=1400362&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>\u201cAnti-racist\u201d author Ibram Kendi spoke at Virginia\u2019s largest housing event last year on the dime of a not-for-profit housing agency \u2014 which spent $25,000 for the keynote \u2014 comparing the United States to a house with \u201cdeeply racist\u201d bedrooms, The Daily Wire has learned.<\/p>\n<p><span>The speech was made at the 2021 Virginia Governor\u2019s Housing Conference on November 10, days after Republican Glenn Youngkin won the gubernatorial race. P<\/span><span>ublic records show <\/span><span>Virginia Housing <\/span><span>spent $25,000, plus a $393 hotel reimbursement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome of us are living in that liberated closet and there are many communities and organizations who have created very nice living rooms,\u201d Kendi said with regard to restructuring America. <\/span><span>\u201cBut the actual bedrooms and basement and kitchen and attic and everywhere else is [sic] deeply racist. There\u2019s this perspective that it\u2019s impossible to indeed tear down the house and build it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kendi added, \u201cLast I checked in housing, you examine a house, and you\u2019re like \u2018you know what, there\u2019s [sic] too many issues here.\u2019 The foundation itself is broken. And so they are better for the people who are going to live in it for us to create something totally new. I don\u2019t understand why we can\u2019t do that in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Virginia Housing is listed as one of five conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaghc.com\/why-attend-governors-Housing-Conference\">partners<\/a> \u2014 two of which are federal agencies \u2014 for the three-day affair. The conference is an LLC and nonprofit. A committee composed of representatives from Virginia Housing and other partner groups selected the speakers, a spokesperson for Virginia Housing told The Daily Wire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey choose the keynote speaker every year, based on the focus of that year\u2019s conference,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 900 people registered for\u00a0<span>the conference, Virginia Housing says. Each year, attendees include elected officials, policymakers, nonprofit heads, financial institutions, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his speech, the author also called for reparations \u2014 a policy related to redistributing goods to the descendants of African American slaves. He was asked by an audience member why it is \u201cdifficult\u201d for people to consider reparations, and the author claimed taxpayers would not bear the burden for such a policy. He also said people are wrong for not thinking American is systemically racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe short answer is because of the deep well of racism,\u201d said Kendi. \u201cThe longer answer is the tremendous amount of hypocrisy. \u2026 I think people are opposed to it because first they\u2019re taught that if the U.S. government provides reparations to enslaved people that they\u2019re going to have to pay themselves. That\u2019s not the case. Secondly, [they\u2019re] taught that the reason for the racial wealth gap is not because of this sort of history of enslavement and Jim Crow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere\u2019s only one proposal on the table for the American people that has the capacity to eliminate the growing racial wealth gap \u2014 and that is reparations,\u201d Kendi also said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_357369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-357369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Virginia Housing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The weekend event was hosted in Norfolk and began<\/span><span> eight days after Youngkin beat Democrat challenger Terry McAuliffe. Youngkin rallied around education and the growing discontent of parents amid schools embracing race and gender ideologies in the curricula. On his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/governor-youngkin-signs-11-orders-on-day-one-in-office-includes-crt-ban-investigating-loudoun-county-officials\"><span>first<\/span><\/a><span> day in office, he banned the teaching and training of Critical Race Theory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor clearly won\u2019t support hiring a divisive $25,000 Critical Race Theorist to espouse division,\u201d a Youngkin spokesperson told The Daily Wire when asked what role, if any, he will play in the 2022 conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-uva-a-public-university-spent-nearly-541-per-minute-for-ibram-kendi-racial-equity-lecture\">Related: EXCLUSIVE: Public University UVA Spent Nearly $541 Per Minute For Ibram Kendi \u2018Racial Equity\u2019 Lecture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A media rep for Kendi did not respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span>Northam, who implemented much of the equity policies and programs <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/youngkin-releases-education-report-on-efforts-to-fight-crt-discriminatory-programs\"><span>that Youngkin<\/span><\/a><span> is now rescinding, also spoke at the conference. He delivered a virtual 10-minute talk during a luncheon on November 11 from Dresden, Germany, while on a \u201ctrade mission,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vhfyoHxrnSE?t=1824\"><span>according to footage<\/span><\/a><span> obtained by The Daily Wire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf we want thriving communities and we want everyone to have equitable access opportunity, then we have to create safe, affordable, and quality housing,\u201d said Northam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kendi has continued to make rounds across the country while being paid thousands of dollars to discuss systemic racism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His speech at the housing conference came <\/span><span>after the publicly-funded University of Virginia (UVA) spent around $541 per minute to host him for a \u201cracial equity\u201d lecture in April, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-uva-a-public-university-spent-nearly-541-per-minute-for-ibram-kendi-racial-equity-lecture\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> first reported. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Wire has also exclusively obtained contracts showing The University of Kansas spent $17,000 in March 2020 to host Kendi, while Oregon State University spent $22,000 in April 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span>Like UVA, Virginia Housing contracted with Penguin Random House. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This year\u2019s housing conference is from November 16 to 18 in Arlington.\u00a0<\/span><span>View the contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/565909409\/11-10-21-Kendi-Virginia-Housing-In-Person-Event-Contract-260379547-Final-8-27-21-Signed?secret_password=zzBlOwneHX0DzvXq8lAw\">between Penguin and Virginia Housing here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Send story tips to Gabe Kaminsky at <\/i><a href=\"mailto:gekaminsky@protonmail.com\"><i>gekaminsky@protonmail.com<\/i><\/a><i>. 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Support journalism that matters and join one of the fastest-growing conservative media companies in America by becoming a Daily Wire member <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today<\/a>.<\/em><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnti-racist\u201d author Ibram Kendi spoke at Virginia\u2019s largest housing event last year on the dime of a not-for-profit housing agency \u2014 which spent $25,000 for the keynote \u2014 comparing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"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-1400362","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\/1400362","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400362\/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=1400362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}