From the Free Beacon:
Boston University Loaned $600K to a Mysterious Trust Run by Ibram Kendi’s Brother-In-Law
Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research faces allegations of financial mismanagement
Andrew Kerr
October 6, 2023In September of 2020, just weeks after Ibram X. Kendi launched the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, the school approved a $600,000 mortgage to an unnamed professor. The university won’t say which professor that loan went to, but it was doled out to a trust controlled by Ibram X. Kendi’s brother-in-law, Macharia Edmonds.
The mortgage helped to cover the down payment for a $4.56 million luxury penthouse triplex that boasts the ”best of sophisticated Boston living.” Public real estate records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the trust is controlled by Edmonds, a former Obama campaign official and attorney who now serves as a Global Content Policy Lead for YouTube in San Francisco.
Edmonds’s only apparent affiliation with Boston University is through Kendi, who is married to his sister, Sadiqa, also an associate professor at Boston University. Edmonds controls the trust on behalf of its unnamed beneficiary. While it’s not uncommon for universities to provide sweetheart loans and mortgages with below-market rates to poach star professors from their competitors, experts told the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009 that the IRS strongly discourages such transactions.
You can’t say he’s not a good family man. He almost died of cancer a while ago. Ever since he has strived shamelessly hard to pile up a big estate that would take care of his loved ones if the cancer came back.
