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28 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If COLLEGE EDUCATED MARRIED White women have anywhere from 2 to 12 times the wealth (depending on age) of COLLEGE EDUCATED MARRIED Black women, tell me what supposed "race culture" traits account for that persistent delta? Is it the music? The food? C'moooon, get off it already.
There is SO much wrong with the stupid "it's the culture!" argument that I can only believe it persists because it's the current legacy of the "inferiority due to climate" type arguments of the past. They didn't think that was racist then either. Bleh.
And upon ANY level of inspection, it becomes immediately clear that they really just mean that supposedly race-wide inferior BEHAVIORS are to blame; "culture" is just the wave of the hand word to make it all seem sociologically grounded. But it's not. It's BS.
And if you're still arguing that case--despite the last damn 400 years of racialization and race exploitation!--then I've got no time for your pretend intellectualism, and neither should anyone else. SMH

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28 Nov
Was rereading a section of Kendi's How to be an Antiracist and was reminded of this section on personal responsibility:

"Indeed, I was irresponsible in high school. It makes antiracist sense to talk about the personal irresponsibility of individuals like me of all races. 1/
2/ "I screwed up. I could have studied harder. But some of my White friends could have studied harder, too, and their failures and irresponsibility didn’t somehow tarnish their race.
3/ "… How do we think about my young self, the C or D student, in antiracist terms? The truth is that I should be critiqued as a student—I was undermotivated and distracted and undisciplined. In other words, a bad student. But I shouldn’t be critiqued as a bad Black student.
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3 Oct
Brother, when you say such things as in the attached image, you show your hand. It is clear you haven't yet even been persuaded by MLK's original message, nor the Civil Rights Movement itself.

For example, Dr. King wrote,

"Our hope for creative living in this world house 1/
2/ "that we have inherited lies in our ability to reestablish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice."

Or how about,

"Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. There is no other answer. Constructive social change
3/ "will bring certain tranquillity; evasions will merely encourage turmoil. Negroes hold only one key to the double lock of peaceful change. The other is in the hands of the white community."

Or,

"We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical
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1 Oct
@D_B_Harrison Along with Critical Race Theorists, I believe race is a biological fiction and a social construction. But you are Biblically incorrect about genos/ethnos, entirely incorrect in fact.

Genos comes from the word ginomai, denoting birth or origin, and thus has to do with 1/
@D_B_Harrison 2/ solidarity of people groups by common progeneration. As an example, we read of Pharaoh in Stephen’s speech that,

"He dealt shrewdly with our race (genos) and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive." (Acts 7:19)

This word is commonly
@D_B_Harrison 3/ used in the New Testament when referring to the Jews or Hebrews as common “race” of people. But we see the same applied to other people groups as well. E.g., Mark 7:26:

"Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth (genei). And she begged him to cast the demon out
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30 Sep
Best short description of Marx's project:

"Throughout history men have struggled, suffered and died to free the oppressed. Their efforts, when they did not remain sterile, have never led to anything except the replacing of one oppressive régime by another. 1/
2/ "Marx, who had observed this, thought he was able to demonstrate scientifically that things were different in our day, and that the struggle of the oppressed would now lead to a true emancipation, not to a new oppression.
3/ "…In his ponderings over this resounding failure… Marx finally came to understand that you cannot abolish oppression so long as the causes which make it inevitable remain, and that these causes reside in the objective—that is to say material—conditions of the social system.
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28 Sep
Interested in some long, boring Sunday night tweeting? Here you go:

I suspect that one major problem, especially affecting laymen who believe themselves to be experts in critical theory, is the attempt to integrate and unite Marx, Gramsci, Critical Theory, Critical Legal 1/
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3/ each camp.

For example, Critical Race Theorists (CRTs) have consistently noted the tension between their own set of ideas and that of postmodernism (PM) and poststructuralism (PS), from the very outset of the movement. Angela Harris described the CRT project, some thirty
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26 Sep
1/ Okay, this is the immediate context of my screen shot from Kafi D. Kumasi, as found in Levinson: ImageImageImageImage
2/ And I don't think it is a quote from Bell, as suggested, but is from and old version of Delgado & Stefancic's Introduction. (It does not appear at all in the newer editions!). Here is that context: ImageImageImageImage
3/3 In their relative contexts, I don't see anything particularly objectionable. Pretty consistent with this:

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