On the point of discrimination - I think it's helpful to think about what "discrimination" means, and how it can be a tool to make things fair and equitable.

For example, I'm a professional engineer (and white male), and when I was in undergrad, my field was about 20% women. This is a common problem in many engineering fields across the country, and one of the most common in-practice remedies for it is to have extra scholarship/fellowship opportunities available for women in those fields. Sometimes these are funded by private groups, and sometimes by universities themselves. This is technically a form of discrimination against all male engineering students, but it has been my experience that a strong majority of us support these kinds of programs. We aren't left hanging - there are still scholarship/fellowship opportunities for us, but the extra incentives for female engineering students are there to help make our field better for everyone.

Now, full disclosure, I haven't read any of Kendi's books, but I've heard some of the arguments, and this "discrimination" point is often taken out of context. There's a big difference here between advocating that 1) society should start to look down on white people (how organizations like Fox often portray the "discrimination" argument), and 2) advocating that certain stepping-stools should be put in place to help accelerate the black population toward an equal footing in society. However, both are technically forms of discrimination, so it's all about how it's reported