Boston University hosts annual '21 Days of Unlearning Racism and Learning Antiracism' event

Boston University launched its second annual month-long event of "unlearning racism and learning antiracism." Anti-racist texts and multimedia material will be made available during the three-week period to "better prepare" the campus community for "a more diverse, equitable academic environment."

During the free "21 Days of Unlearning Racism and Learning Antiracism" event launched last Tuesday, participants will be provided "an opportunity to engage directly in antiracist texts and multimedia each day for 21 days."

The event's registration form states that the initiative intends to support "a continued commitment to the work of becoming anti-racist allies and advocates" and to hold participants "accountable" for engaging in the anti-racist work.

The yearly campus-wide event open to the general public is hosted by the university's Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs (PDPA), which offers programs, resources, and services that are tailored to meet the specific needs of doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and its faculty mentors.

PDPA has updated last year's curriculum "to look beyond anti-black racism and include resources related to racism in other communities of color." The virtual event touts "a special focus on issues of racism in higher education," inspired by season four's themes of the "supplemental" doctoral journey-driven Vitamin PhD podcast produced at Boston University, which serves intellectual nutrition. Virtual "community spaces for conversation" will also be held throughout the program.

The university's Center for Antiracist Research, founded by How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi, convenes researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to "figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice."

"We foster exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives. We are working toward building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all," the Center for Antiracist Research's website explains.

Dan Treacy, the vice chair of the university's Young Americans for Freedom chapter, said via press statement to The Post Millennial that "Ibram X. Kendi's Center for Antiracist Research has yet to produce anything of note other than events like these that simply teach people to hate themselves."

"We should be asking where all the money that's been poured into the center is going while Kendi continues to build his own brand," Treacy stated.

"We are choosing to be antiracist. My colleagues and I are choosing to use the blocks of thoughtful and exhaustive public scholarship to build an antiracist future for America, for humanity," the founder's statement reads. "There is no better base of operations to found our research center than Boston University, a community of researchers and learners founded in, and still committed to, inclusion."

Kendi and other far-left academics have created an ultimatum between being anti-racist and being a blatant racist. "History is calling the future from the streets of protest. What choice will we make? What world will we create? What will we be? There are only two choices: racist or antiracist," Kendi wrote for The Atlantic.

Last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gave $10 million to the Center for Antirasict Research. Dorsey said that the research will "inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change" as he praised Kendi's work and expressed gratitude.

Accepting the generous donation, Kendi said that the money will allow the organization "the resources and flexibility to greatly expand" the center's "antiracist work." BU Today noted that the money from Dorsey's own foundation Start Small came with "no strings attached" for the fledgling organization.

Boston University president Robert Brown said that because the funds are unrestricted and can be used for any initiative that Kendi's organization deems fit, the unlimited nature of the funding "gives the director endless discretion about how the income from the gift will be used over time to advance the center."