The College Fix reports that in addition to paying the humanities professor roughly $583 per minute for the "Keynote Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi" ($35,000 for an hour-long Q&A session), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also covered his first-class airfare, hotel accommodations, and travel to and from the event.
Kendi has made an estimated $300,000 over the past several years off of what Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute calls a "money-making scam."
"In another I don't know how many years, it'll be over," the cultural issues writer submits. "These people better make all of their money now, because already it's being exposed for what it is. Whether you think it's a scam or not, it's certainly arguable whether this has any value."
She says the promotion of racial division is what keeps Kendi's sort of scheme going.
"His ideas are fallacious; they're evil at best," she argues. "They're not going to do anything to mitigate racism. They're not going to do anything to help black and Hispanic populations."
Kendi, a humanities professor at Boston University, is author of "How to Be an Antiracist." In his book, he argues that the "only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
Many agree with Higgins that such a position only fuels racism.
