Dr. T. Anansi Wilson JD/PhD
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Law Prof: how law/society dis/orders Black & #BlaQueer life. RT isn’t endorsement. #FurtiveBlackness views are mine, not employers or affiliated orgs.
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🧵I want to remind you all. This is my personal twitter, as noted in my bio. My tweets are my own do and not indicate or imply any endorsement, knowledge or awareness from my employer or any affiliated organizations. My voice is my own. My thoughts are my own. My politics, ever…
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The thing they don’t tell you, about being first gen and making six figures? That shit don’t hit the same when your whole family poor & disabled and you the bank
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I know my law students is sick and tired of me and my draft comments 😂😂😂
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hi. 15 years olds cannot have *sexual relationships* with adults. Robert Davis was the victim of a rapist, a pedophile, a groomer, who manipulated, drugged, raped and blackmailed him, that resulted in the rapist's--Josh Kruger--death.
BREAKING: Josh Kruger, the left-wing Philly journalist who was murdered in his home last week by 19-year-old Robert Davis, had been in a sexually relationship with him starting when Davis was 15 and had threatened to post sexually explicit photos of him online, per the family.…
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I have a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies. I assure you, you are not schooling me on chattel slavery with your little google search and YouTube experts. Sit. Down. And. Read.
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Do not overcommit. You deserve more leisure, pleasure, peace.
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When they killed Trayvon Martin, it was the Palestinian students—out of all those students of color on campus—that immediately got it. I’ll never forget the moment of not needing to explain the problem of deputized white supremacist violence, or the hugs and solidarity that…
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I understand the need to conduct a door by door search—if that’s what is happening—during an active shooter situation but
I’m just overwhelmed with imagining what it feels like to have maybe survived an active, unknown random shooter, and then have police open your door, w/guns…
Video from inside a freshman student’s dorm room at Morgan State University following the shooting last night:
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Because business professors are rarely students of history lemme be clear:
1: African American men were often lynched for speaking out of turn, protesting or attempting to exercise constitutional rights
2: lynching was a tool of deputized white men, against Black people, used…
“Is a student organization celebrating a lynching of an African American male free speech? I'm not asking for restrictions of free speech. I'm asking for equal treatment,” says Columbia Business School professor Shai Davidai, who grew up in Israel.
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"Educating the conqueror is not our business."
—Toni Morrison
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Gentle reminder. Trump did not have the grace to pardon her—wiping her slate clean—as he did with Sheriff Joe. But instead, merely commuter her sentence, releasing her from jail. As a drug felon, she cannot get fed student aid, she cannot live in low income housing ect ect
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I could write an entire dissertation on how the “othering” people are talking about and lamenting speaks to a (anti-queer) desire to slide into cishetero normativity and hegemony; I could
But instead, i want us to think about how Monique is modeling and mapping accountability,…
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Dear Black People, A free, Pro-tip from a constitutional & criminal law professor:
NEVER EVA EVA EVA TRUST THE POLICE
ALWAYS, ALREADY ASSUME THAT THEY ARE LYING
YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY EXPRESS YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT
IF YOU ARE ARRESTED OR TAKEN INTO CUSTODY,
#1
ASK IF YOU…
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We did it!!!!!! THEE Dr. Wilson, JD/PhD is IN! DISSERTATION DEFENDED!!!
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🧵 Too often “professionalism” is the silent demand to conform to white, class-specific culture. It often means to be silent about your mistreatment, to smile when you are slapped, to do as you are told, to bend to whims, fears & fragility of others. It means white over everyone
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But I’m also NOT complaining about giving back, because giving back is investing forward. It’s a privilege to be in this space, but also a systemic terror that intergenerational poverty exists
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Black people will always be Blacklisted and pay the price.
White people will always celebrate the public lashings.
Speech has never been free for Black people, not even in schools.
The freedom to disagree, the right to be wrong, has never attached to the Black body, the…
NYU Law student Ryna Workman loses prestigious job offer after penning a horrifying justification for the murder, rape, and kidnapping of Jews in a school newsletter.
Thank you
@WinstonLaw
for doing the right thing and breaking ties with this atrocious antisemite.
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Sexual violence under slavery was not about sexual identity.
It was about power and brutality and it was persuaded by white men and women, against Black men and women, in same and opposite gender encounters.
Enslaved men were raped, just like women, but such violence was never…
Buck Breaking—The Use of Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men as Punishment for Wrongdoing. Reports suggest the massive popularity of the practice of buck breaking may have been utilized as an outlet for homosexual slaveowners to act out their sexual desires on men, without…
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Using “ghetto” as synonymous with “bad” or “low quality” is casual antiBlackness.
The gag is, the best of our culture, our community organizing, our political and social thought, has come from the ghetto and other poor Black peoples.
The Black middle class—and those deluded…
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I accepted my offer to teach constitutional law in December 2021. In April, i received my PhD. In my i began my position. This is my first full semester of courses. Today, the faculty unanimously voted to promote me to associate professor of law. What a life.
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The more i speak to older Black folks, assigned male at birth, and hear their stories about childhood “sexual” experiences w/older women, the more i realize the conversation about rape is gendered in ways too perverse to articulate. gender norms don’t allow one to identify w/rape
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You can DEI your way into equality, maybe even equity, but you cannot DEI your way into justice. Justice is not inclusion (into a violent system), but r/evolution into a new way of organizing living and dying; resources and care; power and deservability; accountability & rest
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All African Americans are Black. However, not all Black people—even in the United States—are African Americans. Black is a race, African American is an ethnicity. Ted talk complete.
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Also, equally struck and disgusted and shocked, by y’all “just say no” people. Like, who tf raised y’all? No community care politic? Like, you just get yours and go have brunch and let your nieces and nephews be hungry or go without school pictures, or your momma not have dental?
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I’m so proud of her, those who raised her, those her poured into her, the beautiful powers of self fashioning, dignity, autonomy, self witnessing, testifying, truth telling. An ancestral praxis lost to respectability. Bless you sister. Let us all protector her, in the name of the…
Angel Reese rejects First Lady Jill Biden’s apology: ‘We’ll go to the Obamas’
(📹
@IAMATHLETEpod
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"What does it mean to be a citizen of a country on the wrong side of every liberation struggle on this earth?"
— Audre Lorde
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@uglysquirtle
@tryna_be_famous
@55mmbae
You’re not about to slingshot a 400lb count by the tail homie. This ain’t the Old Testament lol
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I wish people would read more. Intersectionality is not based on Marxism. It’s *actually* based on Black Feminist theory and is best understood as a cross disciplinary application of Patricia Hill Collins “matrix of domination. Further, this is one of the simplest ways to show…
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A wise man said to me: “they want diverse people, without diverse perspectives”
And they ain’t neva lied
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The time to complain about being underpaid and undervalued is always, always, always right now!!!
Taraji should have waited until after the Color Purple hype was over to speak publicly on her pay being too low.
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In the end, antiBlackness will always win; no matter how adept you are at playing the game.
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism, antisemitism scandals: Crimson
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Woke up this morning to read that Doug Blackmon, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book “slavery by another name”—the documentary i teach in crt, criminal procedure, con law—is advising the mayor on cop city and refusing to sign a ballot petition bringing it to a vote.…
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It’s always something…without a link or book.
Though I must say, the use of sexual violence was a facet of life for all enslaved people. The notion that “homosexual” rape was any different than heterosexual rape…or that rape during chattel slavery had anything to do with…
Buck Breaking—The Use of Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men as Punishment for Wrongdoing. Reports suggest the massive popularity of the practice of buck breaking may have been utilized as an outlet for homosexual slaveowners to act out their sexual desires on men, without…
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Shoutout to the Jewish folks offering critiques of the Zionist project, while also in the throes of deep trauma, whilst both pushing against war crimes and fending off threats & curses from community and enemies alike. Do some care work today. We see you and know justice work is…
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I’ve officially accepted an offer to become an assistant professor of constitutional law.
I’ll also be the founding executive director of my own center focused on the study of Black life and law.
I/?
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1/2 Without an inch of irony,
#SCOTUS
has found that affirmative action, violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. A reconstruction amendment meant to make full citizens of African Americans and help undue the legacy of racism and chattel slavery. Throw the…
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And i want to remind people that responding to violence in kind, is not “violence.” It is a response, a rejoinder and a demand to never return such a violation to this body, this people, in this way again. It is an offering to the offending body to never forgot, to keep score and…
To all the violence isn't the answer folks..
How much more should Black folks tolerate? Some folks only understand the laying on of hands.
There's a time when talking isn't the answer. This ain't 1823, where white folks can just whoop a Black man with no repercussions.
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It was a different time.
But this was certainly me when the yt boys hurled that n****r or f****t shit at me. I would legit walk out of the class, calmly to the office, call my grandma, walk back into the room and throw hands.
It got worse when we moved across the street from…
Dude called his mom telling her he finna get suspended
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@NairobiTimess
We should all be reporting you for inciting harassment and invading privacy creep!
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Thankful to the solidarity between students for justice in Palestine and the Pan African Alliance. We really changed the campus.
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Y’all, i need y’all to sit with the extent of American empire
Hold on, the United States Air Force controls the entire GPS that everyone in the world uses?
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I did not expect this to become a jump off point for privilege folks complaining about being asked to support family & community. Sheesh.
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Also, a lot y’all keep talking about the “Black tax,” no, it is the antiBlack Tax. It’s also ridiculous that we cannot write off these care expenditures & that dependent status is only triggered at 50%
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@lilibethegarcia
@FutureDrDukes
Yes and that’s it! It doesn’t “start” at six figures, it’s starts at that first job—often while still living at home in high school—and continues, forever
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@qtsooya
@schLEEpington
Authenticity in a politician—that doesn’t amount to racism, sexism, classicism, homophobia etc—a rare treat
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Just marveling. I just turned 34. I have a law degree from Howard. A PhD from UT Austin. A scholarly center of my own, founded by me. I'm an associate professor of law. An author. A highly sought after speaker. A fiance. First generation everything. And my soul is still in tact.…
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion
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As we have long known, Black folks are often the first to stand up against state violence and the first to pay the price. The Black non-binary head of the Student Bar Association has lost her job offer, is likely being investigated by the school for “hate speech” and has been…
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The crazy thing is, mugshots as we know them began as fliers for runaway enslaved people & later antiBlack propoganda after reconstruction . They also disproportionately continue to mark Black people as criminal, long before and after any criminal proceedings or findings of guilt…
I’m not a fan of public play. Especially, in the middle of the day or places where people may frequent. Do your thing, but do your thing in the privacy of your own space. I don’t want to be walking in the park and you getting fucked behind the bushes. I hope they continue to…
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When i finish this book, I’m going to write a book about rural, Midwestern Black folks. Too much Black Studies assumed we are either a southern or urban people near or at the heart of mega cities. Life in the great expanse of the Black Midwest is different and that is why you…
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@iamdebbiehines
no, it should not be. This is how I talk in and outside of the classroom. The point of this method of engagement with students is to show up authentically; not to antagonize culturally specific dialetcs/grammar, to invalidate AAVE or apply white conventional speech to a tweet.
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Black folks: post a true, non-humble, flex about yourself that you’d never say out loud because you have couth.
I wanna see Ya’ll BRAG on what your Ancestors have rendered!
Me: I’m one the best thinkers, writers and speakers of my generation.
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When Black people talk about “generational curses” we often mean the manifestation and effects of both structural racism and the afterlives of slavery.
It ain’t demons we’re fighting my loves, but antiBlack policy choices, laws & customs that order & disorder the way we live and…
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Just received my first tenure track law professor offer! Whew! It’s been A LONG TIME COMING! Who would’ve thought this lil Black, queer nigga from rural Kansas would be a prof of constitutional law?! With a jd, PhD and second book on tap? To a single, striving teenage mom?! BLESS
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I love Black people. I love Chicago.
I love the Black Midwest
In true Chicago fashion, the bucket boys gave us a juke rendition of the Free Palestine chant 🥁
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This is perhaps one of the most insightful commentaries on race, capitalism, sports, property and eroticism I’ve seen in a bit. See how the plantation reanimates itself? See how white desire is reticulated in new grammars?
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“Black excellence is the wrong answer to a racist question”
Zakiyya Iman Jackson (i think)
Ya’ll let that sit in. In a country where the mediocre are rewarded, why must Black peoples be excellent to merely get by and return home, with a body free of bullet holes.
The mediocre,…
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Professionalism is the silent demand to leave your culture, identity, truth & humanity at the door and silently fulfill the pleasures of those around you—client & colleague—until you are dead or gone. It is a type of leasing system, an innovated peonage system, existence as debt
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If you can inherit the wealth, you can inherit the accountability sweetie
“I’m not guilty for the sins of my ancestors or people who were here before me.”
If you keep their ill-gotten wealth & uphold their racists systems…
…yes, you definitely are lol
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Adding this from trans woman referenced;:
I just got done watching this whole interview with
@moworldwide
and
@clubshayshay
and I’m still in tears! As a Black Trans Gender woman i often get skipped, omitted and plain just out left out of the conversation for things I’ve done in culture or for moving the needle! And it…
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It's not difficult to sit w/both the reality of the situation/necessity of the armed response, and the real trauma and fear--the logical trauma and fear--that students must be experiencing by the armed police presence. I think it is also a call to reflect on how (public) "safety"…
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Fun fact, when i wear my mask and an updo, I’m often mistaken for a woman in the airport 😭. Then they hear my deep ass voice and nearly die apologizing. I’m like baby, calling me a Black woman is one the best compliments you could give suga. Off to MN
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When people say "Black and Brown" people, I be so confused. Bc who exactly is brown and when? Does the term have political integrity? Are we *actually* in community?
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Please to report—that despite the noise and ongoing “racial bias ‘investigation’”—the faculty has overwhelmingly voted to reappoint me as Associate Professor of Law. 17-1-3
I also remain the founding the Director of the center for the study of Black Life and the Law.
Now back…
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Last thought before I go the gym. I checked with my CRT students in class on Tuesday, regarding the violence in Palestine and Israel. My Black students had a unanimous response, they felt traumatized and gaslit, bc the coverage reminded them of everytime they tried to explain…
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me to the people tryna grammar police my tweets, who clear don't understand what i'm doing or its importance...you are literally the problem....
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25 racial discrimination & bias complaints against me for advocating for
#Palestine
and
#Gaza
. Support is needed yall. You can email the interim dean of mitchell Hamline school of law
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@thembithembi
@blurbette
Like frfr. It reminds us that antiBlackness is the fulcrum of much of the global political imagination
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Let’s be serious.
Slavery.
Dred Scott
Plessy
Convict leasing/lynching
Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration
Chinese Exclusion Act
Indian Removal Act
Tulsa Massacre
MOVE Bombing by Philly PD
Tuskegee
COINTELPRO
Internment of Japanese Americans
Cuba/Haiti immigration polices…
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For years I’ve been writing unpublished pieces about Parisitic Blackness: or how the Black middle and upper class engage in a witchcraft & theft similar to Blackfishing; where the language, culture, reality & genius of the Black poor is stolen, repurposed & profited from—as a…
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Whew. I thought they was gon' cast Cynthia for this too.
Thank you Jesus.
Regina King stars in “SHIRLEY,” a Netflix film about Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress
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Black people have been in an abusive, non-consensual relationship with the United States since before its founding.
This ain't love babes, this is entrapment.
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Unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as an LGBTQ community. We have almost certainly never been in community. We are ruptured and divided by race, gender identity, sex/uality, politics, orientation toward normativity, apathy and enmity. Rarely have we ever shared the same…
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Being Black doesn’t make you an expert in Black Studies, Black Political Thought/Theory, Black Feminism, Black Queer/Quare/BlaQueer or Sexuality Studies, Slavery Studies, Race and the Law etc. Lived experience is exquisite but you gotta read, write, intervene, commune, create.
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And of course to answer the question, yes, that is indeed legally protected free speech.
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I see why y’all be pot heads.
Reality is nuts
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No one should be fired, suspended or harassed for critiquing a genocide. Yet, that is where we are in American academia.
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There are folks out here make $7.25 an hour or less (for farmhands and some waitstaff) with gas $4 and a car that only gets 20mpg or bus/train fair that is $2 each way.
Average haircut these days is at least $40, biweekly.
Groceries $100 a week.
And we expect people to have…
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The Queen has returned to her throne.
The GOAT back on floor!!!!! 🐐 obsessed with this routine!!
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Last thing, pay attention to these people responses…bc if they’ll do this to folks who fed & raised them, who sacrificed their life for theirs, imagine what they’d to you/yours, whether you’re their neighbor, partner or random citizen. Theirs is the politics killing us all now.
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@TheFireNexTime
Yes and I’m not encouraging anyone to “look beyond” language. I am pointing attention to the question of what it means to be offended by the rhetoric, to be othered and therefore have a desire for normativity and not queerness.
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I remember being advised to remain quiet and apolitical until i received tenure, lest I risk my career.
I did not.
I cannot.
I will not.
Not because of arrogance but because the Ancestral moral code in my bones.
Nevertheless, I persist and continue to succeed because of my…
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Racism should be expensive, particularly antiBlackness.
As I’ve always said, throwing hands is an abolitionist intervention and a racial justice praxis
These white people jumped this black security guard at the Riverfront. The staff got off the boat and it turned into WWE Smackdown. I’m so proud of Montgomery 😭😂
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Yo...I'm literally being considered for early promotion to associate professor of law...six months in. HUMBLED for the encouragement and consideration. Hoping for an early bday present, but also blessed to even be here.
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Colleagues are colleagues not family.
Colleagues are colleagues not family.
Colleagues are colleagues not family.
Colleagues are colleagues not family.
Colleagues are colleagues not family.
Colleagues are colleagues not family.
Colleagues are colleagues not family.
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@jarildy
The students deserve and, you know, these are the folks who are going to reading, enforcing, creating and undoing laws in the future. I need them to know how to tell the truth and find the lie.
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didn't realize i could directly upload my law school commencement address that I gave on Saturday. Here ya go sweets and remember to always "interrupt, intervene & inconvenience" in the name of justice and the children who come next.
#lawtwitter
#AcademicTwitter
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Black teenager suspended over dreadlocks in Texas heads to court in CROWN Act case
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Black = Race, includes a global diaspora
Black American = race + legal citizenship (can be any Black ethnic group)
African American = ethnicity
(referring those who descended enslaved Africans—and those free as well—in what is now the United States)
Hope this helps!
Happy…
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Muting this thread bc some of your politics are deeply disheartening. Please develop an economic praxis that is based in love ethics. I recommend hooks’
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I’m still shook. Associate professor of law. A JD and Phd. At 31. Six months into the gig. Let me tell you something about my Ancestors, caring community and the seeds I planted even as a child whew….it is time to reap and sew some more. Excited to launch my research center!
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Jail is more expensive than an adequate social services.
Jail is more expensive than an adequate social services.
Jail is more expensive than an adequate social services.
Jail is more expensive than an adequate social services.
Jail is more expensive than an adequate social…
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I would like to remind us all, that “intersectionality” is a theoretical framework, not an identity to be identified with.
It is merely the realization that systems of power interlock and compound, to hit multiple pressure points and choke the life out of folks with multiple…
@DAPWrites2
Again, what your stating is only for those that identify with intersectionality….but it does not take away from those who are pro-black and only choose to identify as pro-black and fight the pro-black battles. Does not matter how you feel, you can’t just maneuver the facts
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