Fairfax County schools defending $20K presentation from anti-racism scholar

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Fairfax County schools defending $20K presentation from anti-racism scholar

Sep 25, 2020

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - The Fairfax County school district is defending its decision to pay $20,000 for an author who spoke to its administration and school leaders about racism for one hour.

The speaker is Ibram X. Kendi – the author of How to be an Anti-Racist.

The $20,000 price tag means the district paid Kendi more than $300 a minute.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-...racism-scholar

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Coleman Hughes critiqued the book as "poorly argued, sloppily researched, insufficiently fact-checked, and occasionally self-contradictory".

In The Washington Post, Randall Kennedy, praised Kendi's book for its candor, independence, and self-criticalness, but also critiqued it as having major flaws—especially being internally contradictory and poorly reasoned.

Andrew Sullivan criticized the book as having the character of religious tract with overly simplistic distinctions between good and evil that cannot be falsified, and being sparse on practical suggestions.