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Aug 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The same people obsessively tweeting about @AHAhistorians editor's column fallout as evidence of "wokeism" run amok completely ignore the column that ran after the #1619Project published. They're ok with ideology if it affirms there's. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/12…
This has been the tell frm the beginning of those who camouflage their bad-faith critiques of the #1619Project & the from-the-bottom historiography tht undergirds it -- while decrying a "lack of objectivity" they only acknowledge critiques & ignore all the historians tht affirm.
Forgive typo in first tweet: *theirs
To pretend the field has not always been rife with identity politics is, frankly, ridiculous.

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Aug 6
Fascinating thread for many reasons, but as a journalism prof I'll use it as a case study in how I find reporting that treats Twitter as a primary source to be unacceptable, and also that I would never accept DM messages as the sole means of trying to reach a story subject.
Rigorous efforts to reach a subject where claims have been made against her is not only the fair and ethical thing to do, but it also protects you as a journalists. If I had these accusations made against the subject, I'd not rest until I tried every possible avenue for comment.
This protects YOU as a journalist. For example, when someone says a subject has refused to join DEI committee but source has EMAILS disproving claim, ensuring you reach the subject before publication avoids you printing something easily refuted.
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Jul 19
The University of North Carolina has confirmed the dollar amount of my settlement over my tenure in media reports, but my settlement was about much more than that. I and my @NAACP_LDF team fought for concessions that wld support the work of faculty & students of color on campus.
The settlement includes UNC committing to training 20 faculty and staff as (paid) search and selection process advisors to help diversify university hiring.
The settlement includes UNC posting a position by July 31 for an additional trauma-informed therapist within the Multicultural Health Program, and hiring a qualified applicant for this position.
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Jun 4
This is one of those interviews that brings instant clarity to thoughts you’ve been grappling with. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
This on the contradictions of white Christian nationalists: the holy trinity of freedom, order and violence.
Freedom for straight, white, Christian men (and I’d argue their white women enablers) and order for everyone else.
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May 26
Absolutely. Then the gunman only has to breach a single door & can hold the entire school hostage with no other means for students to escape or law enforcement to enter. We will argue for anything, anything, other than remove the weapons of mass death that cause the mass death.
Just turn schools into prisons, restrict all the freedoms of families and children to go into places of community and learning and love without being slaughtered so that we can protect the rights of people to own military-grade weapons.
The response to a paranoid, armed society is not to disarm but to turn us all into prisoners. When do we say enough.
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May 16
Hard to be especially disgusted on a platform that disgusts daily, but the so-called intellectuals justifying GRT on the heels of a white supremacist massacre,particularly those who are among the groups allegedly doing the replacing,are a sign of a moral bankruptcy that astounds.
The idea that there is some justification for white fears of being demographically replaced coming from the very same crowd that pretends those who focus on race and racial caste are consumed by dangerous race essentialism and identity politics is the height of hypocrisy.
More importantly, it, per usual, demonstrates a shockingly bereft understanding of history. The threat of non-white immigrants overcoming the numeric/power supremacy of wp is nearly as old as the Republic. It’s why the confines of whiteness (a power construct) hv always expanded.
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May 16
I’ve avoided tweeting about the white supremacist massacre so not to dishonor the dead in anyway. But I keep obsessing over the constant drumbeat of the last year abt the dangers of CRT when the literal violent danger of the white supremacy CRT exposes has been downplayed/denied.
I keep thinking of all the so-called moderates, so-called progressives, so-called intellectuals and deep thinkers who equated CRT and diversity trainings and college student protests with book bans, and nationalism and racist dog whistles as two sides of the intolerance coin.
One side has a centuries-long track record of terroristic violence to maintain the racial order. One side was using media and the law and fascist techniques to stoke racist fears. The other was being overzealous in its push towards inclusiveness. THESE WERE NEVER THE SAME.
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