Peak Woke Insanity: Judge Amy Coney Barrett Attacked as Racist for Adopting Two Black Children

Headlines Politics U.S.


Judge Amy Coney Barrett was called a “White colonizer” this weekend, apaprently because she and her husband chose to adopt two Black children from Haiti.

“Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children,” tweeted Ibram X. Kendi, author and director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. “They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.”

Kendi then attempted to walk-back his comments. “And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist,” he wrote.

Users on social media however, urged Kendi to desist from his line of argument.

Barrett, 48, is a devout Catholic. She currently serves on the 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals. She and her husband have 7 children, including two adopted children from Haiti. She was nominated by President Trump for the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday.

 

Join the discussion