Amid a hot national debate over the teaching of the controversial critical race theory (CRT), prominent CRT advocate Ibram X. Kendi on Wednesday led a discussion at a American Federation of Teachers (AFT) summit, likening Americans opposing CRT to those who campaigned against the end of racial segregation in public schools in 1954. Kendi, a humanities professor at Boston University, was featured as a guest speaker at a discussion session on the second day of the AFT’s biennial “Together Educating America’s Children” conference. He fielded questions about racism, laws, and rules prohibiting the teaching of CRT in K-12 education, and how teachers may react to those restrictions. When asked what the term “racist” means to him, Kendi replied that he believes a racist is an individual who “expresses an idea of racial hierarchy” or supports a policy that produces different outcomes among different racial groups. He also said that one can’t …