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4 WoC FACULTY WERE PUSHED OUT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER’S SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
I recognize that our “silence will not protect us” (Lorde 1977)
Here is our response to hold the School to task:
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You dont petition the plantation, you burn it down.
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Roses are red. Violets are blue. All empires will fall. Like I have for you.
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You know what the Israeli “left” won't do? Denounce their citizenship.
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Her name was Ma’Khia Bryant.
Ma’Khia Bryant.
Ma’Khia Bryant.
Ma’Khia Bryant.
Ma’Khia Bryant.
Ma’Khia Bryant.
Please spell this baby’s name right. Please don’t erase her name. She was 16. She was not a young woman. She was a child.
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Colonialism must be discussed today as an ONGOING project. It is not some relic that we reminisce on. It’s something we actively fight now.
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Academic language is supposed to be precise, not inaccessible.
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Boycott fatigue? Allyship fatigue? Y’all fatigued about everything but being/other people being oppressed.
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People don't set themselves on fire to inspire discourse. They do it so we move to action.
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White people do organizing that “feels good”. When it gets too hard, off to the next thing that brings entertainment, access to space and joy. It’s painful to sit through education sessions, grief circles that are in response to your ancestors (and now your) unwillingness to
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People could just make beautiful things, we could take care of each other, we could study what we wish, we could go where we want to go, and we could share.
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Not y’all back on the defund the police train. It always was and always will be abolish the police.
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Do you think revolution will require nothing of you?
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Is this a safe space? Are the nap ministers asleep?
Pleasure politics has done a number on the ability to effectively mobilize and organize.
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I wish for less emails for all of us in 2024. Please hesitate to reach out.
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I haven't heard anyone talk about in the case of Palestine, Netanyahu referencing “the children of light and dark” is straight out of the “dark continent” handbook of the white mans burden. An unambiguous dichotomy is always set up for these conquests: dark versus light (1/
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You don’t attempt to endure the plantation, you burn it down.
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Again what happened to Black Americans was and is a genocide.
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Tear it down, tf?
Ben Franklin Statue finally has its keffiyeh.
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Joy is endurance, not resistance. Rest is rejuvenation, not resistance. Resistance is resistance.
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Universities are useless and are intellectual arms of the state. Go to the library.
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The four elements of killing a movement: neoliberalism, respectability politics, cooptation, and joy in the imperial core.
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Afropessimists been trying to tell y’all appealing to “humanity” doesn’t work when you’re rendered nonhuman.
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I think more people should get cussed out in academic spaces.
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If the police’s only language is violence, y’all might want to consider talking back.
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There is no solidarity to be had where there is antiblackness.
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The real reason education is under attack is because they don't want the people to recognize the patterns. They certainly don't want us to connect the dots between our oppressions; how their tactics never change.
Education is the first line of defense against fascism.
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The way y’all’s politics fold like fresh laundry for music will never not disgust me.
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I am not rooting for all black people. Some of y'all are for the empire.
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How the readings used to have me before I learned how to read scholarly articles and books (a thread):
TL;DR no one reads the whole book/article and if they say they do, they are lying and/or burnt out. Become a master skimmer. Protect your spirit.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but… there’s also no reforming the university.
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Stop using organizing as a disguise to have sex with people 2021 challenge.
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Y’all letting the police snatch up your “comrade” while you’re standing there recording?
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I have not prayed in over 10 years. But I prayed into my sheets tonight to make these genocides stop. I cried. I threw up. I stayed. These are babies. These are people. These are entire lives being wiped from the map. It is too much. It is so much that I have begun to pray again.
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Our collective inability to imagine worlds where our “progress” and “advancements” do not require the suffering, pain, and enslavement of other people is deeply disturbing.
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Hey so poor people/ unsheltered people/people on government assistance deserve nice things.
They deserve access to art and performances, and nice hot meals, and music, and laughter and joy. Some of y’all don’t get that mutual aid isn’t just handing shit out and going home.
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The academy seeks to keep things in stasis so it can study it into oblivion and irrelevance. Dr. Joy James is absolutely correct in saying that “the academy has no revolutionary desire”. If you must be in the academy, use the resources and funnel them into the community.
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The United States who
Kept Africans as chattel
Stole Native land
Refused to end segregation for years
Integrated as slowly as humanly possible and still is dragging their feet
Banned Native ceremonies
Burned cities to the ground
Killed civil right leaders
Supported dictators
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If the oppressions are connected, why are the protests separate?
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If you walk away from this thinking the university can be reformed or petitioned, you’ve missed the point and you’ve failed. Anything less than new sites and models of knowledge sharing is insufficient.
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I’ve seen people get into teaching not because they love education, but because they locate the classroom as a place of domination and control.
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Y’all want libération without the world ending and that’s where you fuck up. Every. Single. Time.
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Decolonization is not going to happen through publishing articles.
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I want you to be released from the shackles of “non violence”
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Mastered it ❤️🌱✅ next up: commencement.
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Universities are neither progressive, nor are they liberatory.
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The “we failed you” absolution is getting really old. You do not get to resign or retreat. Tenses matter and the past isn't here yet. It is more apt to say “we are failing and we are going to do more”
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My ancestors did not put everything on the line for me to be a coward.
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I want us to remember our collective power in this lifetime.
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How in the fuck do you “reclaim the American flag”
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A society that actively builds technology that rips through the human body, relies on slavery and extraction, destroys the earth and completely decimates and uproots people from their land (including unborn children) has nothing to teach me about morality.
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You learn from black struggle but don’t *checks notes* include Black struggles in movement expansion.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but you are not a Colorado “native”
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^^^ Resting indefinitely. I’ve known people in my communities when something gets hard all of a sudden rest is needed. There are some people utilizing language around real rest to escape accountability and just to overall do no work. Which is what I might call its weaponization
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We have a lot more books now, baby. Cheers to 25
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The most revolutionary thing you can do in the academy is to leave it.
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It’s a genocidal STATE. Not regime. Not administration. Not person.
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Argue with yourselves; you’re dense.
Get a library card. Do community teach ins. Go to highlander. Start a freedom school. Value knowledge outside the ivy tower. Share your syllabi.
If you must be in uni, for god sake have at least one foot out the door at all times.
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Colonial powers will not solve colonial problems.
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Recognition from community >>>> recognition from the academy, the state, organizations.
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If we are liked by our oppressors we are doing something wrong.
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Poor people deserve preferences.
Poor people deserve privacy.
Poor people deserve kindness.
Poor people deserve compassion.
Poor people deserve for the bar not to be in hell.
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Revolution comes from us. It does not happen to us.
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I hope that the Columbia organizers are also extending the mic to Sudanese and Congolese organizers.
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I think the thing I hate most about the overuse and misunderstanding of the phrase “late stage capitalism” is the assumption that the state will collapse on its own. It will not. It will claw for its life until we intentionally steal away our lives back.
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The university has always been the third pillar of empire (Wilder 2013). It will always comply with the state as the state apparatuses of violence are always at its disposal. There are no “progressive universities”
Academia that suppresses the freedom to protest against blatant oppression is no longer academia, but a school of empire propaganda.
Columbia has the choice between the freedom of thought academia represents and the tyranny of authority the state does — and it is choosing BADLY.
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There is no polite/correct way to speak about oppression.
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USA has all the characteristics of a collapsing empire. It hasn’t happened yet of course but it’s happening
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Universities are complicit and actively involved in weapons manufacturing, research and design.
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I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLICITLY STATE THAT WHEN MY MASTERS DEGREE IS CONFERRED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER IN MAY, THAT WILL BE THE LAST TIME I STEP FOOT ON THAT ANTI-BLACK, ANTI-INDIGENOUS AND DENIGRATING CAMPUS.
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Anything less than the end of this world is insufficient.
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Being in solidarity does not mean you tolerate everything under the sun.
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Wait til I tell you the US is illegitimate too.
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Real Black radicals and people who are trying to completely overhaul these conditions don't believe in nations, borders, black faces in high places of oppression, saviors, vanguards, reform, propping up other forms of oppression for their own survival, abuse, ____ is resistance.
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I think people want a revolution but don’t want to sit across from their community for dinner—to talk about the hard things, our desires and what makes us scared.
There are few things that are possible when there is not a level of care and recognition in organizing.
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When people reference antiblackness as being foundational to the building of the world in no way are we trying to exceptionalize our suffering; instead, if people cared to interrogate their antiblackness, they would have a more robust critique of conquest and colonialism
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Lynched people and sent postcards
Kept Asian Americans in internment camps
Broke treaties
Poisons the earth
Dropped an atomic bomb on innocent civilians and children
Overthrow democracy when not aligned
That's your moral compass? That's who you're going to follow?
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Writing is a communal practice. We must return to it.
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Community is not simply being in proximity to people.
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Palestine’s only “crime” is not being willing to submit to their occupiers.
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DEI makes institutions steeped in white supremacy feel better about the work they aren't doing.
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