{"id":109413,"date":"2022-06-21T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=109413"},"modified":"2022-06-21T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T01:43:47","slug":"ibram-kendi-links-freedom-to-enslave-with-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/ibram-kendi-links-freedom-to-enslave-with-gun-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ibram Kendi links &#8216;freedom to enslave&#8217; with gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>There are some who fight for &#8216;freedom to exploit, freedom to have guns,&#8217; Kendi said<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a link between the &#8220;freedom to enslave\u201d and the &#8220;freedom to have guns,&#8221; according to Boston University Professor Ibram Kendi.<\/p>\n<p>Kendi (<em>pictured<\/em>) told host Margaret Brennan that \u201cthroughout the nation\u2019s history, there\u2019s been two perspectives on freedom, really two fights for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uUG8x09uENY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnslaved people were fighting for freedom from slavery, and enslavers were fighting for the freedom to enslave, and in many ways, that sort of contrast still exists today,\u201d Kendi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people who are fighting for freedom from assault rifles, freedom from poverty, freedom from exploitation, and there are others who are fighting for freedom to exploit, freedom to have guns, freedom to maintain inequality,\u201d Kendi said.<\/p>\n<p>Kendi did not further elaborate or explain the connection between white supremacy or \u201cthe freedom to enslave\u201d and gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2017\/06\/22\/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling data<\/a> shows that while the percentage of gun ownership compared to the general population is highest among whites (36 percent of white Americans say they are gun owners), 24 percent of blacks and 15 percent of Hispanics also say they own a gun.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kendi: We must teach our children to identify white supremacist ideology<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kendi described how parents can explain racism and white supremacy to their children and protect them from its effects. Despite protective measures, however, Kendi likens white supremacy to an inescapable danger like car traffic which can only be prudently managed, not challenged or entirely avoided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that we protect our kids from [white supremacy] is ensure they can identify white supremacist ideology and the way they can identify white supremacist ideology is to teach them about it,\u201d Kendi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s no way they&#8217;re going to be able to protect themselves from it just like they can&#8217;t protect themselves from cars. They have to understand to look both ways whether they&#8217;re teenagers or young people so they won&#8217;t get harmed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kendi\u2019s ongoing efforts to equip children for an allegedly white supremacist world include two new books &#8220;aimed at counteracting racism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/ibram-x-kendi-new-childrens-book-goodnight-racism\/\"><em>CBS News Boston<\/em><\/a> reported June 13.<\/p>\n<p>One is a parenting book called \u201cHow to Raise an Antiracist,\u201d and the other is a child\u2019s book called \u201cGoodnight Racism,\u201d a play on the classic text \u201cGoodnight Moon,&#8221; CBS reported.<\/p>\n<p>The author told CBS it&#8217;s wrong to assume that &#8220;kids don&#8217;t see color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 3 years old, kids are attaching skin color to positive or negative traits,\u201d Kendi said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want us to counteract that as parents,&#8221; he told the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/daughters-blue-eyed-white-doll-alarmed-ibram-kendi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kendi alarmed by daughter&#8217;s &#8216;blue-eyed white doll&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Face the Nation\/YouTube<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some who fight for &#8216;freedom to exploit, freedom to have guns,&#8217; Kendi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":109418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[38465,45462,45461,5060,31148,41023,45460,8073,6401],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ibram-Kendi.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-ssJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109413"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109448,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413\/revisions\/109448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}