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Feb 28 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Black people, do you know what Red Dawn is? Because white people are lighting my ass up about it. You’d think it was John Hughes the way they’re carrying on…
I’m getting a few things. One, y’all had paid for cable. Fancy fancy. Two, I am clearly the child of a half Black nationalist Panther who didn’t think the commies were so bad. Three, I went to a Black school. Four, I should watch I Love The 80s more closely. 😂
I know a lot of white stuff! I’m mildly surprised I don’t know anything about this. But then can anyone truly know the wizard??
(I think white people think I’m 30 years old.)
Okay, so some Black people know this movie. I have reflected on this and I am 100% certain that I have NEVER discussed this movie with Black people. And I have known a lot of Black people. I’m going to start mentioning it and report back.

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Feb 25
I just ran into an old college professor at the coffee shop. Let me tell you how memory works. I was looking for my car. I cohost where I parked it. Yet, I saw the profile of a man in a mask from 500 feet and shouted, “Larry Nessler?!” Same person. Same brain. 😂
What a treat! Not only is it one of the small joys of being home. It is also truly awesome to see your old teachers when you turned out okay 💅🏿
I haven’t seen him in nigh on 12 years or so. I remember his classes like they were yesterday. His was the first class where I could *see* the craft of teaching. He was this middle aged white guy teaching at an HBCU. That can go wrong lots of ways, trust me.
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Feb 24
You may laugh but one place I have seen this on the ground? Research about online dating and visa marriages over the last decade. There is marked uptick in white western men AND women desiring former Soviet country partners because they are “traditional”.
(This doesn’t matter at all.) I remember seeing a presentation on this about six years ago. I logged on to some of the discussion boards to follow up. It was like a Trump rally but before Trump. A lot of reverence for Russian leaders as a cultural pinnacle.
It was clearly about race. And once Trump was elected, there was a lot of reflection about Melania as an avatar, with her ethnic origin as a white credential. (Again, none of this matters. It just came to mind.)
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Feb 22
Possible! But they're going for a strong black excellence talented tenth campaign so I'm going with she married the stockboy and has been trying to find him to get an annulment, i.e. something that will keep her socially in play.
a baby takes her out of play, imo. But it's tv and they're pretending she would even be there so anything is possible.
(I really think they're too invested in Peggy and them to give her a secret baby. BUT, given all the drama that made Peggy's storyline even make it this far, they could slip it in there.)
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Feb 17
And there it is. Every hire and every denial in academia comes down to this.
Listen, I’m a nobody in the grand scheme of academic things. But I am a Black woman with — depending on who you ask — a touch of the sight OR keen attention due to trauma. Nothing was more clear to me a few years into the game than this.
Winning or losing was always gonna be zero sum to somebody and if that somebody has any power over you, you will feel it. Your wins can be turned into losses and vice-versa.
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Feb 15
I totally get that the vast majority of people think this way. I easily concede. I’m just too old and/or tired to be uncomfortable for a long time so we can hang-out when we are…traveling to a place to hangout.
This is just the way that I am. I don’t need all that much watering and feeding. And I look at transport as utilitarian. I get it done as efficiently as possible and see you at the destination.
In my view, we need to line up single file, have our boarding passes ready, not change seats once boarded, sit quietly, and get there already.
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Feb 15
I am going to tackle this one quickly for a couple reasons. One, these replies have been going steadily for a couple of days. All from men. All of them. So let’s do some light discourse analysis…
The primary document features a woman’s first person account in an area that overlaps with her professional expertise. Based on what that document provides, this woman is a trustworthy subject.
Nowhere in that primary document does the woman describe her actions as fraught.

A non-expert but generally trustworthy reader assigned “incredibly fraught” to the primary text.
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