assistant professor | ethnographer of da black south | wrote vibe | Patricia’s son | ΚΑΨ

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I once heard @tressiemcphd say that the best scholars are good storytellers. All of my favorite sociologists were ones who wrote the South. I wanted to follow in that tradition & use storytelling to bear witness on NC to use words honestly, beautifully . upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/V…
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Yes there are bots on this site but don’t let that force you to underestimate the amount of white people who spend hours a day on this site behind anonymous profiles carrying on their grandparents legacy of racism.
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you can instill hard work without performative labor. the issue isnt even just about money, it’s about kids access to good schools, healthcare, clean food, educational support, clean air, etc. no one should recreate the conditions of poverty under the guise of character building
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Shaquille O’Neal says his kids need three degrees to touch Daddy’s cheese “In order to touch Daddy's cheese you gotta have three degrees because I believe in respectable nepotism” “I was with the Miami Heat one day and this article came out. The grandmother leaves the son $250,000,000” “This kid's on his knees scrubbing the bathroom floor and I'm looking at him. I'm like, hey man, didn't your grandmother just leave you $250,000,000?” “Yeah, but Dad wants me to start from the bottom. Once I saw that I was like, you know what, that right there is respectable nepotism” “I also have to teach my kids we're not rich, I'm rich”
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You know you played bad when a white dude post your salary after the game
Chet Holmgren’s five-year, $239.3 million extension kicks in this summer for the Thunder: 2026-27: $41.3 million 2027-28: $44.6 million 2028-29: $47.9 million 2029-30: $51.2 million 2030-31: $54.5 million
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I don’t care who better but if you were born late 80s and early 90s and saw lil Wayne progression, you have to respect it. It’s not even something you want to compare just enjoy the fact you were a witness.
It’s really people who believe Lil Wayne is a better rapper than Prodigy because of their biases towards wordplay punchlines.
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do academics even like research, reading, and thinking or just publishing
Replying to @michaelbilleaux
To be a successful PI in bio it usually (not always) requires writing 10-20 high profile papers a year, each one with ~80 citations. No bio PI reads each one of these citations cover to cover. That would be absurd.
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so white Americans were so committed to injustice that it required activists to organize and stage an ideal scene for white Americans to see that segregation was wrong? This isn’t about Rosa Parks story being fake but white Americans inability to see injustice in the real world
We have literally been lied to about everything Matt Walsh “The Rosa Parks story you were taught in school was fake too. This was not just some woman on her way home from work. Civil rights leaders thought Parks would make a sympathetic face for their lawsuit and then told her, a longtime NAACP volunteer, to create a situation where she'd be arrested. This gets sold to the public as totally organic when actually it's playacting to create ideal conditions for a court case or scandal. The iconic photo of Parks on the bus was staged months after the incident as part of a press campaign. (The photo is shown in the clip) The white man, sitting behind her in the bus photo was a journalist, which you probably didn't know.” Let’s fact check this. It’s 100% true What Actually Happened on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was a longtime NAACP volunteer and secretary of the Montgomery chapter. She had been deeply involved in civil rights activism for years (including work on cases like the Recy Taylor rape and voter registration efforts). She was not just a random tired seamstress on her way home from work who spontaneously refused to move. Local civil rights leaders had been looking for a strong test case to challenge bus segregation. They even had people cast for the role before Rosa Parks. Earlier attempts include 15 year old Claudette Colvin were passed over because leaders felt Rosa Parks, a mature, respected, married woman with a spotless reputation, would be a more sympathetic plaintiff in court and to the public The Iconic Photo was 100% staged The famous photo was taken on December 21, 1956, this is over a year after her arrest and on the first day the buses were integrated after the Supreme Court ruling It was deliberately staged by journalists, Look Magazine and UPI, for a press campaign to dramatize the victory The white man sitting behind her is Nicholas Chriss, a UPI reporter, not a random angry passenger or segregationist
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ROUND 1 ✅ Boston, please be classy my friends! I still love and respect you!!
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Y’all said football was harder to play than basketball. This wouldn’t even make sense in the NBA.
The Philadelphia Eagles drafted a 21 year old Nigerian who has never played football but stands 6’5”, 306 lbs with 6% body fat, a 39” vertical, a 10’10” broad jump that is 14 inches longer than any other defensive tackle at the HBCU combine, and a 4.63 40 yard dash
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no more funny than analyzing survey data from people you have never had any interaction with and passing it off as objective knowledge while you claim to be an expert on said group
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Looking at the "racial capitalism" debate and once again thanking my lucky stars that white leftists don't care about Asian American shit
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As universities close departments & programs in the social sciences & the humanities, reactionary “leftists” are convinced that any theory focusing on race vis-à-vis capitalism is hegemonic in academia, which echoes the rhetoric & policy of conservatives restructuring Higher Ed.
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A peculiar time to be launching a “left”attack on “Black Studies” and “racial capitalism.”
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The AAS Faculty‑Graduate Seminar is an intimate intellectual community bringing together faculty and graduate students to discuss interdisciplinary works‑in‑progress. Learn more about the AY26 seminar aas.princeton.edu!
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don't nobody hate the work that you do more than a white man who thinks he deserves your job
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New research dropped where I explore how black Americans emotionally deal with the contradiction in being a “free” citizen that’s constantly policed. I suggest that black slang isn’t simply about sounding cool but making sense of our complicated emotions.
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Chasing an academic career is just believing the stripper really likes you.
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white men on the left are racist too. it’s almost as if y’all can’t imagine black men caring about policy, history, and making complicated choices that aren’t simply one dimensional responses to white bigotry
If white men on the right ever understood that the only reason black men don’t join them politically is because they are racist and decided to make a real peace with them, I don’t think Democrats would ever win another election for a while
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