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You could teach AN ENTIRE COURSE just unpacking this little project. "Tip Your Mask" to prevent racial profiling...as offered up by black clergymen...and supported by the police...during a public health crisis that requires we mask so people don't die. wandtv.com/news/public-as…
The project and police response takes racial profiling not just as right and proper but *efficient* for the proper functioning of business. Then it transmutes that racism into civic duty. It's perfect racecraft. PERFECT.
All the moreso because the racecraft is internalized and promulgated by black community leaders! It's a perfect set-up. Not a single white person is made uncomfortable in the entire endeavor.
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I am 100% positive that this framing can be traced to a single consulting firm or university presidents group. Real reporting would find it and put it in context.
No one cares what I think and I’m just fragile enough right now to break professional face so let me let ‘er rip.

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2. It is better for institutions to die than for people to die and it is unconscionable that anyone in a position of authority should suggest otherwise.
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I went to read the scholarship on universities during and after Katrina for some speculation. A brief thread.

1. (I wasn't the only one. This by @andreperryedu) brookings.edu/blog/the-avenu…
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3. Matriculation agreements were done quickly, suggesting lots of red tape can be efficiently crossed out when there is will. higheredtoday.org/2015/08/19/as-…
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I decided I needed something real and grounding, unlike the news cycle. So we are settling in to see what this #LoveIsBlind is all about. Some good nice moral wholesome television.
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