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@TrevonDLogan
Aug 10, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Many people have strong opinions on the @bigten decision to cancel football this year. Why would they do it? I think there are several factors involved that fans, coaches, administrators, and players have different perspectives on. Let's review. #CollegeFootball
First, we've had a few outbreaks of the virus so far this summer in college football. Rutgers is just one of the most recent outbreaks. nj.com/rutgersfootbal…
Michigan State's team was put under quarantine a few weeks ago after an outbreak. If this happened during the season they would miss two week of play. cbssports.com/college-footba…
Alabama also had a "small" outbreak of coronavirus this Summer. The players recovered and they have continued to push for football this year. wsj.com/articles/alaba…
South Carolina football has seen a 5% positive rate among their players in the testing they have done this Summer. Note: this is the rate with very low density on campus. charlotteobserver.com/sports/college…
College ADs and Commissioners have been watching MLB and NBA closely to see how playing during the pandemic is working. College will be much closer to MLB than NBA (there is no college football bubble). nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/…
The MLB example is very sobering. The number of postponed games is high. Players who have been diagnosed have had serious complications, most notably Eduardo Rodriguez of the Red Sox. usatoday.com/story/sports/m…
What does all of this mean? The implication is pretty clear-- there will continue to be outbreaks during the season. The likelihood of cancelled games and games with last minute roster changes would be high. si.com/college/2020/0…
Also, even with limited fans, football could bring together groups that are far larger than public health experts would warrant. And then there are the off campus parties to consider as well. usatoday.com/story/news/edu…
The high likelihood of cancelled or altered games due to outbreaks, the already shortened schedules, and the relatively poor example from MLB, it does not look like this is going to work without a strict bubble. And college football does not have a bubble.

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Jul 9
During the family reunion, I walked through downtown Coffeeville, MS with my family, and the history of #segregation & Jim Crow was everywhere. First, a new mural depicts the segregated Hamblett Hotel in town, (long closed). It shows a Black butler attending to White guests 1/N
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Walking with my uncles, they recall the simple things of childhood, like getting an ice cream cone when they came downtown on a weekend. But as Black children, they were served from the side of the creamery, because Black people were not served at the front door. 2/N
In those days, car dealers were downtown businesses, but they were not allowed to enter the showroom. They could look through the window and dream about driving, but that’s it. They couldn’t touch the new cars, lest their Black hands infect the shiny new automobiles. 3/N
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Nov 5, 2023
My opinion: I think the decline in the humanities due to the exact opposite of “lack of exposure.” Students are actually saturated with the humanities. High school requirements are typically 4 years of English, several history courses, and years of foreign language. 1/N
Humanities courses are typically the most likely to be transferred in with AP and with dual enrollment (taking college courses in high school). For better or worse, we have designed secondary education in a way that selects the humanities first due to the existing exposure. 2/N
Where do we see humanities enrollment growth? In creative writing. In technical writing. In military history. In media and film. In gender and sexuality. All of these are largely unique to college-offered humanities courses. There isn’t a high school/AP substitute here. 3/N
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Aug 6, 2023
Recall “the habitual be” and how Black people are mocked for a sophisticated linguistic structure that includes a conjugation of the verb “to be” that goes beyond the limits of English and has tangible, identifiable meaning. They use it instead to humiliate our children. 1/N
Evidence is clear that Black children understand the conjunction of “to be” at a point in time versus “to be” as a normal state. For someone to say “Trevon be on they necks” does not mean I’m doing so right now, but is something I do habitually. It’s sophisticated and nuanced 2/N
This is not grammatical standard English, but is part of the grammatical structure of AAVE. English doesn’t have a habitual conjunction of “to be,” but some other languages do. It’s not made up, strange, lazy, nor invalid. It’s language and is easily discerned by its users. 3/N
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Jul 31, 2023
The bottom line: Elite private universities do NOT have a land grant mission. They were not created to be engines of social mobility, provide opportunity to disadvantaged students, or serve the broader public. They are exclusive finishing schools.

Stop asking dogs to fly. 1/N
Elite schools educate a very, very small number of college students, but have an outsized impact on perceptions of higher education. Most higher education in America is open admissions (or nearly so) and the best of these DO serve as economic mobility engines. 2/N
If we invested more strategically in universities that are serving a broader public, providing world class education, producing cutting edge research, and changing lives we’d all be better for it. I’d settle for better community college funding. 3/N
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May 2, 2023
Watching Black conservatives confront the naked racism of their fellow travelers is fascinating. Murray is upset at teenagers because they’ve defied his belief that Black people are incapable of high cognition. Yet Black conservatives must give him the benefit of the doubt.
The level of naïveté required to believe that Murray is anything other than a racist who is so angered by any evidence of Black achievement that he argues it must be (1) not true and (2) a product of media manipulation is mind boggling. But here we are.
Murray now wants to attack the entire “Hidden Figures” movie as a false narrative that White NASA scientists could not correct because of wokeness. This ignores the source material from Margot Lee Shetterly’s book because facts do not matter here. Where is his evidence?
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Apr 27, 2023
Recently, I've been working on gender and American enslavement. Inspired by @sejr_historian's brilliant work, I want to quantify the propensity of White women to be active as economic agents in the market for enslaved people. Preliminary results are in! Buckle up!! A 🧵 1/N
We know that enslavement was an area where White women overcame coverture. For example, Mississippi was the first state to allow married women property rights in their own name in 1839. Four of the 5 sections of the Act specifically referred to rights to own slaves. 2/N
Key curiosity: Mississippi partly passes the Act because of Fisher v. Allen, in which a Mississippi woman of bi-racial Chickasaw heritage claimed property rights as Chickasaw practices for property ownership were matrilineal. Mississippi needed to extend this to White women 3/N
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