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A black sociologist walks into a HOA meeting about BLM signs and what are being called “signs not in support of BLM”.
Them: we only allow political signs

Me: “black lives matter is my political party”
They talcumbout the thin blue line flag is “decorative”.

A. Bish. Got. Time. Today.
This mofo said “the thin blue line flag is an American flag so it doesn’t count”. Whew Jesus. This is why I do not socialize.
They gone. The whites is gone.
Me: so a political candidate sign that says “vote for me because black lives matter” would be allowed?

See the faces.
I need a candidate - any candidate - to please produce such a sign. I would volunteer to distribute them in my n’hood. #chapelhill
The HOA lawyer just said she does not know what the SPLC is.
Someone told the lawyer to ask the SPLC is the blue line flag is decorative. She said, and I quite, “what’s the SPLC? Does anyone know? I don’t know.”
Me: “is a klan flag decorative?”
I'm literally a nightmare. I am one student loan balloon payment from being a free black woman and. I. got. time.

I will be writing a letter with footnotes. Can I get some collaboration and editorial help?
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This is that HORRIBLE Ruby Payne woman who has made a gazillion dollars selling this to educators and schools and oh god.
You see it in EVERY professional organization. Y'all mad at DiAngelo? You should get up on Ruby Payne. Her whole schtick is a culture of poverty for orgs workbook.
Google "hidden rules of class" and look at the list of organizations that have adopted it.
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There is no defensible formula for pricing signal versus human capital development. And even if there was, what is the benefit of pricing it? Again, reduce Harvard's tuition but don't think it is a counter to the rising cost of education or anything related to justice or access.
And why does everyone suddenly have a single definition of "quality"? Did I miss something?
There is no cost or price of signal. There is no cost or price of human capital development. There is only a rough value of labor market returns to whatever it is we do in schooling and the cost to deliver them relative to demand. There is no price of quality.
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I won't defend Harvard's tuition. But I will tell you that I wrote a book about what happens when you conflate signal and human capital. And it's not pretty. You don't really stick it to Harvard when you do that. You stick it to the rest of us.
If you want a refund for the tuition would you also accept a seal on your Harvard degree that says "online only"? If not, why not? What do you think you pay for, exactly?
And I hate it but it is the reality of the thing. You cannot turn signal into capital mid-stream. And if you did, you only hurt the student and downstream institutions who don't have the save prestige to buffer them the way Harvard does.
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