Now that the easy money from 2020's racism scams has dried up, one of Big Racism's CEOs is turning to a new business opportunity: the war between Israel and Hamas.
Ta-Nehisi Coates began his career speaking out against racism. Seeking compensation In 2014 Publish a new book The Messenger, published in October, focuses in its longest chapter on a trip to Palestine and the racism he witnessed there. The new book touches on racism in America, but the author seems to have found something a little more newsworthy than the death of George Floyd, the perfect subject to tickle the erogenous zones of guilt-ridden white readers and critics in the upscale neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
But Coates is not the first race-obsessed intellectual or activist to pivot his career away from the glamorous summer of 2020. Indeed, he is just the latest example of Big Racism’s waning cultural influence, and its declining profitability. (Related: Bush, Bowman, Gay, Kendi. They've all collapsed. What do they have in common? Woke followers are on the run.)
Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be Antiracist Raised In 2020, the university committed $55 million over three years to the Center for Anti-Racist Studies at Boston University, only to have the center collapse a few years later in 2023. One staff member at the center said it was “mismanaged at a really fundamental level,” while another said they had no idea where the money was going. Shocking.
TORONTO, ONTARIO – SEPTEMBER 9, 2023: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi speaks onstage at the world premiere of Netflix's “Stamped From The Beginning” at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival. Tomaso Boddy/Getty Images, Netflix
Shaun King, a self-described civil rights activist who falsely accused a man of murdering a 7-year-old black girl in 2018, rejection He supports Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate. King converted to Islam and, like Coates, Changed priorities Instead of bullying people online who would later commit suicide, he focused on the plight of Palestine. He's awesome!
Robin DiAngelo, the self-hating race lecturer Recently humiliated During the filming of Matt Walsh's satirical documentary Am I Racist?, producers tricked her into being interviewed and offered her a $15,000 payoff. In that scene, Walsh convinced D'Angelo to give one of the producers $30 in reparations to repent for past injustices committed by white people. She has since Atomic bombing Her Twitter account.
And of course, we can’t forget the racist Death Star, the giant of fraud itself: Black Lives Matter, which made $90 million in 2020. Funding slows significantlyAccording to its 2023 tax filings, the group raised just $9 million in the previous fiscal year and cut its operating expenses by 55%. But between July 2022 and June 2023, BLM leaders had enough cash on hand to pay themselves and their families. (RELATED: BLM leaders used charitable funds to enrich themselves and their families, new documents reveal)
All these signs point to a much-needed market correction. The Big Racism Inc. scam is nearing an end, if a little late. The scam will go on forever, but at least the rest of the year will give us something fresh. And congratulations to Mr. Coates. I'm not going to read his new book (I'd rather read The US Tax Code). The seamlessness of his transition, and the way he convinces elite liberals that he's an elite thinker, is almost admirable.
