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13 Aug, 6 tweets, 3 min read
This week's @Slate #AWord podcast really hits home. We discuss the serious and underreported impact #COVID is having on the black family. Please take time to listen and share
slate.com/podcasts/a-wor…
Rampant greed is one of the reasons America is facing another #COVID and Variant wave despite having more than enough resources to do effective track & trace, quarantine and vaccination. But the push to re-open schools this fall is more about misplaced optimistism than greed
You've got @LSU refusing to require vaccination (but vaccinating an actual Lion mascot) and even at colleges that do require vaccination it's still dangerous to start classes full time again theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
Vaccination works in combination w/ sheltering in place, social distancing and masks. College campuses make 2 out of the 3 almost impossible. Worse, colleges are not bubbles, vaccinated students can contract #Covid_19 from non-vaxxed roommates and relatives.
Standing in a class room w/ 30 people for an hour a day is something that no epidemiologist would say is safe even if vaccinated because that kind of close contact over time allows more contagious #variants to spread. Colleges should maintain hybrid classes with opt-outs
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10 Aug
One of my favorite memories from 1st year at @UVA involves this song. Spring semester the OHill Cafeteria surprised us with a cookout (Grilled burgers/ hotdogs) instead of the usual cafeteria fare ( fried burgers/hotdogs). The D.J., food and atmosphere was very dry
Also, this the 90's at @UVA - campus was extra segregated, black and white students mostly congregated together, with AAPI and Latino students sprinkled throughout, served by almost exclusively black cafeteria workers. Nobody seemed particularly happy to be at a cookout
After like 40 minutes of lame hits, the DJ puts on "It Takes Two" and I swear, it was like a scene out of a Hollywood musical. First everybody noticed that there was a real beat playing. Then folks starting tapping their feet, then people were dancing in cookout line...
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5 Aug
I am so nervous about @Y_FXonHulu . Y - The Last Man is one of the best comic series I've ever read. One of maybe 3 comic runs where I literally cried reading the last issue. I don't want it to MATCH the source material, I want the show to exceed the source material
When Y-The Last Man ended in 08', TV shows centering women weren't nearly as well written as they are today, and shows featuring LGBTQA and Black women were still rare and often 2-Dimensional. Things aren't great today but they're better and @Y_FXonHulu should reflect that
Y-TLM comic had a huge blind spot on race, Agent 355 was the only black speaking character for 90% of the run and there was only one awkward discussion of race that was so terrible and tone deaf it should be buried forever. Hopefully the TV series will do better
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3 Aug
With all due respect to @perrybaconjr
The framing of this piece is absolutely ridiculous and is the quintessential example of inside the beltway thinking (even when it comes from outside the beltway )
Campaign to "Keep Nina Turner out of the House" sounds like it was written by a press flak. Turner ran a mostly locally focused campaign for months. But she did raise millions from donors mostly outside of the district, which makes sense given her national profile
#Ohio11 residents are NOT viewing this race as a proxy battle. Shontel Brown is the local Dem party chair & mentored by Fudge, nobody outside of the DC pundit class sees her as the establishment. Turner is a national surrogate coming back to her old district to serve
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20 Jul
Not shocked by #TomBrady yucking it up with Biden at the White House at all. Brady is, by all accounts, the exact constituency that pushed Biden over the top in places like GA & Arizona.....
Brady's politics, such as they've been revealed, are that of your typical wealthy conservative white man. He claims to be 'apolitical' but somehow his politics always lean right.
Brady had no problem with Trump in 16, likely voted for him in spite of or perhaps because of the former POTUS overt racism and misogyny but also because he promised lower taxes and greater freedom for the Uber Wealthy like Brady. Win - win.
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13 Jul
So I'm enjoying #Hacks and the Jean Smart appreciation that popped up in my TL last night has put me on to several shows I hadn't checked out - Will definitely watch @FargoFX unlikely to check out #MareofEasttown but I do have to say something about Ava on #Hacks
As a consumer of tons of movies & television I absolutely cannot stand the fascination Hollywood writers have with bratty privileged white characters that as supposedly sympathetic because of "fill in the blank" tragedy - IE: Ava is the worst thing about #Hacks
Ava's entire story arc so far (mind you I'm only a few episodes in) reeks of a kind of white woman zoomer privilege that I guess is supposed to be funny and endearing but is downright abrasive to viewers not in that demographic
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30 Jun
"Only 20 said yes"
Gotta love how massive income inequality is just glossed over in some reporting to help create the myth of the rugged individualist American entrepreneur. I know whole families that probably couldn't raise an EXTRA $50K in a year
Last semester I taught my @MorganStateU about #SocialCapital and one of the questions I asked was:
If you asked everyone you know in your personal or professional network for $1,000 how much could you raise in one week? They're college kids so most of them guessed maybe 5-8K
The question is framed that way because anybody may have that one rich relative or mentor who could write you a check. But VERY few people could draw upon MULTIPLE connections if the minimum give is $1K. Access to that kind of wealth is even more rare for black Americans
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