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20 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I don’t need the location to know that wherever this is, is exactly where I am from. I understand everything happening here. 😂
A white dude called Bear in a vintage rock t-shirt singing country soul because a Black woman in the c-store where he spends approximately $28 on chips told him to as a Black dude hypes him up like Flavor Flav? Absolutely. I’m home.
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20 Jul
This x 1000. Part of the challenge is how young some people are when they start gunning for academia. We shouldn’t expect any 22 year old to have the kind of clarity you need to make these kind of distinctions, but non-trad students have to make them to survive it.
I absolutely would have made far more disastrous choices and trade-offs had I entered grad school at 23 years old, like I was “supposed” to. Absolutely.
At 29, you couldn’t lie to me about who I was. And you couldn’t get me to accept that you were always right. And you couldn’t convince me not to trust my own sense-knowing.
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15 Jul
Belly is unwatchable.
No human eyes are actually equipped to watch a 70 minute Hype Williams music video pretending to be a film.
Writing? What writing. It’s just six Five Percenters and a string of random sexism talking about a deal down south. Wut.
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13 Jul
This is always so condescending. Not only does it ignore the fact that I have had 198 jobs but also? I know what a job entails.
I didn’t even say I was talking about work. I wasn’t, by the way. I was responding to some conversations with young friends. But even if I was talking about work, shut up with this “I live in the real world!” You live in Iowa or whatever. Chill.
And as a general rule, scolding Black people about “the real world” will always make you look like a fool.
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10 Jul
THIRTY AMERICAN DOLLARS
These comments think I cannot multiply and don’t know how streaming works 😂😂😂
It amazes me how deeply…stupid so many people think I am.
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9 Jul
Adopt the 4profit enrollment machine and the degree upsell machine but keep your prestige. It was the hustle as far back as 2005.
When I talked with elite uni presidents and administrators, they weren’t so much dismayed by what I detailed in #LowerEd as much as they were interested in HOW THEY COULD COPY THEIR SUCCESS. Masters degrees decreased regulatory risk, increased revenue, & made for pretty charts
I could have made a lot of money had I been willing to brand the right language for adopting for-profit enrollment forms, online degrees, and masters degrees for elite and selective institutions. To them, the crisis was competitiveness.
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9 Jul
I know this much, I’m not buying crawfish in an airport. I don’t even buy the airport sushi unless said airport is on the water. And I eat gas station food!
Airport employees are subcontractors of subcontractors twice removed. No sir and no ma’am.
You gotta eat seafood that’s as close as local as is possible and prepared by people whose house you can run up on if the seafood ends up being spoilt. These the rules.
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