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Free Black Thought
@FreeBlckThought
Honoring black viewpoint diversity for the sake of our democracy; 501(c)3
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Sep 17 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 5 min read
Remember when the neo-segregationist left told you that white doctors were killing black babies?

Turns out they were either incapable of analyzing their own data or outright lying to you.

A new study demolishes the failings and falsehoods in that first study. We unpack it: 🧡 Image 2)
The original study claimed black newborns had lower mortality rates when cared for by black physicians. This got a lot of attention and influenced legal discourse, despite its, ahem, limitations. Classic 2020: it was as if they wanted you to think black people and white people couldn't live together.

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…Image
May 30 β€’ 15 tweets β€’ 9 min read
Academia is a stronghold of totalitarian thought-control.

A librarian made the resources in our Compendium of FBT () available to his university campus.

His colleagues "did not feel safe" and attempted repeatedly to have him fired.

His story, this 🧡 bit.ly/36FTtDQ
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"In December of 2022, I published on our university library website a research guide consisting of a bibliography of black writers with heterodox views. By May of 2023, five months later, I had been labeled a racist, placed on administrative leave, and targeted for firing." Image
May 13 β€’ 16 tweets β€’ 8 min read
"How could it be that the university is zealous about policing pronouns but blasΓ© about the advocacy of hateful violence?"

Roland Fryer's latest for the WSJ, "Anti-Israel Protests and the β€˜Signaling’ Problem," reproduced here in full. 🧡 Image 2)
"The anti-Israel protests on college campuses present a puzzle for observers of academic norms and mores. Today, even relatively minor linguistic infractions, like the failure to use someone’s preferred pronouns, are categorized as abuse at many elite institutions, some of which even define potentially offensive speech as 'violence.' One need not even speak to run afoul of campus speech codes; I recently participated in a training in which we were warned of the consequences of remaining silent if we heard someone 'misgender' someone else.Image
May 8 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 6 min read
"I understand the ethics underpinning the protests to be based on two widely recognized principles:

1. There is an ethical duty to express solidarity with the weak in any situation that involves oppressive power.

2. If the machinery of oppressive power is to be trained on the weak, then there is a duty to stop the gears by any means necessary.

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"The first principle sometimes takes the 'weak' to mean 'whoever has the least power,' and sometimes 'whoever suffers most,' but most often a combination of both. The second principle, meanwhile, may be used to defend revolutionary violence, although this interpretation has just as often been repudiated by pacifistic radicals...Image
Apr 16 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
The ORIGINAL original "woke":

The Wide Awakes was a youth "marching club" formed in 1860 to support Abe Lincoln.

Slave-owners feared them: "One–half million of men uniformed and drilled, and the purpose of their org to sweep the country in which I live with fire and sword."
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Wide Awakesβ€”the ORIGINAL original "woke":

Our cause is Abolition,
And for the Nigger we do cry;
For we do love the Nigger,
And will love him till we die.

'Tis honest Abe and Hamlin,
We want to rule our nation,
And for the Nigger we do claim
Equality of station.

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Apr 2 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 5 min read
"By requiring academics to profess β€” and flaunt β€” faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom."

β€”Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law) 🧡 Image 2)
"DEI statements will essentially constitute pledges of allegiance that enlist academics into the DEI movement by dint of soft-spoken but real coercion: If you want the job or the promotion, play ball β€” or else." Image
Mar 6 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 3 min read
"Tonight, I learned the name of Alderman would be removed from Alderman Library. I became a student scholar at Alderman Library. ... This is not the first time a part of me, my cherished memories, have been 'disrupted' by ideologues.

β€”Winkfield Twyman 🧡 Image 2)
"When you change parts of my memory, you are sending a message to my generation. You are signaling the awesome positive race stories of the 1970s and 1980s are less important than dishonoring 18th century slaveholding families and segregationists before the Civil Rights Era. Image
Feb 18 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 7 min read
Guys like Kareem will never stop pretending that there are grave doubts about Roland Fryer's study showing lack of racial bias in police shootings.

Here are SIX additional studies, using different data sets and different methodologies, that show the exact same result. 🧡 2)
Pre-Fryer:

"what the data does suggest is that eliminating the biases of all police officers would do little to materially reduce the total number of African-American killings.
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African-Americans have a very large number of encounters with police officers. Every police encounter contains a risk. ...having more encounters with police officers, even with officers entirely free of racial bias, can create a greater risk of a fatal shooting."

β€”@m_sendhil (Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth)Image
Dec 30, 2023 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 3 min read
"The demand that Gay resign stems from the utter lack of moral competency she displayed in her testimony before Congress, in which she said that calling for the genocide of Jews is only against @Harvard rules in certain contexts. There is also now evidence of serial plagiarism.🧡 Image 2)
"Having finally got their wish of a Black president of Harvard, Harvard seems unwilling to let her go. The racial wagons have circled around Gay, with President of the @NAACP alleging that White Supremacy is afoot and @Morehouse President David Thomas claiming in a Forbes interview that Gay is a scholar at the 'top of her profession...as qualified as any President Harvard has ever had.'Image
Dec 19, 2023 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 4 min read
🧡As part of a self-declared jihad which lasted from 1983 to 2005, Sudanese Arabs sought to subjugate and enslave the Black Sudanese of the mostly Christian South. The onslaught cost the lives of perhaps 2.5 million Black Sudanese and the freedom of an estimated 200,000 more. 1/9 Image 2/9 In Israel, Hamas burned homes to force people out of shelters; in Sudan, the terrorists set fire to train cars and then murdered those who tried to escape. Rizeigat Arabs kidnapped children; one Arab, according to the report, stabbed a woman & snatched her 4-month-old baby. Image
Dec 11, 2023 β€’ 25 tweets β€’ 10 min read
WOKE ACTIVISTS USE PICTURE BOOKS TO INDOCTRINATE BLACK CHILDREN

πŸ§΅π‘†π‘œ 𝑀𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑑 π‘‘π‘œπ‘”π‘’π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ π‘œπ‘’π‘Ÿ π‘œπ‘€π‘› π‘π‘–π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’ π‘π‘œπ‘œπ‘˜ 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘ π‘‘π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘–π‘’π‘  π‘¦π‘œπ‘’'𝑙𝑙 π‘Žπ‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘¦ π‘€π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘‘π‘œ π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘Žπ‘‘ π‘¦π‘œπ‘’π‘Ÿ π‘β„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘› π‘€β„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘’ 𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑙𝑙 π‘π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘›π‘” π‘‘π‘–π‘£π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘ π‘–π‘‘π‘¦.

The world understands how powerful black voices are. This is why the radical progressive movement targets black children. Save this list and come back to it when looking for enriching stories that won’t corrupt your children while still featuring black characters. 1/24



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Image 2/24 The criteria to be on this list is as follows:

1. No radical progressive agenda
2. Tell a good story
3. Not be about racism, woke lens or not

JUST SAY NO TO ANTIRACIST BABY!

The full breakdown drops tomorrow in the Journal of Free Black Thought. Here is your previewπŸ‘‡ Image
Dec 4, 2023 β€’ 26 tweets β€’ 13 min read
WHAT HAPPENED TO BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH

🧡If you want to get down to the bottom of the black maternal health crisis we hear so much about you must study what is happening right now and what happened in the past. Black midwives are a major piece of this puzzle. 1/26 Image 2/26 πΉπ‘œπ‘™π‘˜π‘  π·π‘œ 𝐺𝑒𝑑 π΅π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘› (1946) is mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding the current situation in maternal health. This book is no longer in print and a used copy will run you at least $200 on Amazon. We'll hit the high points in this thread. Image
Nov 9, 2023 β€’ 13 tweets β€’ 5 min read
BLACK MASCOTS FOR A RED REVOLUTION

🧡Exploring the ways in which black Americans have been the targets of Marxist rhetoric. We frequently hear commentators blame universities but this has been going on in high schools for decades. 1/13 Image 2/13 One cannot successfully assess the critical theory and Marxist ideas entrapping many of our black youth and young people generally without acknowledging Howard Zinn. Image
Oct 8, 2023 β€’ 23 tweets β€’ 13 min read
"The...utopian view of the human condition [is] the belief that there are no inherent limits to what mankind can accomplish, so trade-offs are unnecessary. World peace is achievable. Social problems such as poverty, crime and racism can be not merely managed but eliminated. 🧡 Image @jasonrileywsj 2)

"Mr. Sowell begins 'Social Justice Fallacies' with a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who expressed the essence of the unconstrained vision when he wrote of 'the equality which nature established among men and the inequality which they have instituted among themselves.'
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Sep 6, 2023 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 3 min read
"Someone needs to keep pointing out that our national debate over which books to allow in classrooms, or how to teach slavery to middle-schoolers, is far less consequential than the continuing inability of most youngsters to read or do math at grade level. 🧡 Image 2)
"In FL, where DeSantis has taken lumps for a couple sentences in a 200-page black-history curriculum, only 39% of Miami-Dade County 4th-graders are proficient in reading. Who cares if kids have access to books by Toni Morrison if most of them can’t comprehend the contents? Image
Aug 29, 2023 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 6 min read
"Identitarians on the Right and the Left share a common hostility to the working class and 'radical forms of universalism.' The 1619 and 1776 projects exemplify this. They reject class struggle, the class analytic, and universal social programs." 🧡
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"The class politics that inform both projects are remarkably similar. The 1776 and 1619 projects are united in their reverence for capitalist social property relations, despite their disagreement about how the state should respond to the inequalities they produce."
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Aug 25, 2023 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 2 min read
Charles Blow's (@CharlesMBlow) column "reveals how supposed liberals, the sort that religiously read the @nytimes, can smuggle reactionary racialist ideas under the apparently progressive language of racial justice and empowerment."

🧡 on a response piece by @buffsoldier_96... @CharlesMBlow @nytimes @buffsoldier_96 2/

"Blow’s proposition assumes that 'black people' form an actual political constituency that speaks in one voice, when there are all sorts of fissures and cleavages that exist within 'black politics.' To not recognise this is to have a meagre understanding of diversity." Image
Jul 21, 2023 β€’ 35 tweets β€’ 13 min read
"I taught a class [in which we read] Shelby Steele’s objections to affirmative action. It stigmatizes Black people as inferior & fills them with self-doubt in a mostly white setting; it makes them trade on their past of victimization; it doesn't improve life for most" of them. 🧡 Image 2)
"When I asked my students what they thought, one of the more activist-minded among them said that he agreed with everything that Steele said about affirmative action, which he thought shamed Black people. But, he added, with strong emotion, 'I hate Steele for saying it.'" Image
Jul 6, 2023 β€’ 26 tweets β€’ 15 min read
"The Supreme Court outlawed the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. I’d personally come to believe that preferences focused on socioeconomic factorsβ€”wealth, income, neighborhoodβ€”would accomplish more good while requiring less straightforward unfairness. 🧡

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"As an academic who is also Black, I have seen up close, over decades, what it means to take race into account. I talked about some of these experiences in interviews and in a book I wrote in 2000, but I’ve never shared them in an article like this one.

Jun 27, 2023 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 3 min read
FBT's work has been cited in a lawsuit by former Penn State Prof. Zack De Piero, who was told toΒ β€œassure that all students see that white supremacy manifests itself in language and in writing pedagogy” and that β€œThere is a problem with the White race.” 🧡

https://t.co/YdbnXXsVdLfairforall.org/penn-state/
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De Piero's lawsuit against Penn State cites FBT's work to claim that "over 80% of Latinos and a nearly equal % of African Americans respond, 'That is not offensive' when presented with the question, 'Where are you from.'"

The post cited in the suit:
https://t.co/t5jDpOpno6freeblackthought.substack.com/p/the-best-mic…
Jun 24, 2023 β€’ 13 tweets β€’ 5 min read
"We’re going through a period of extreme despair about the situation of African-Americans. The most extreme form is a movement called Afropessimism, which holds that black Americans are still viewed, as in the slavery days, as inferior, and as outsiders."

β€”Orlando Patterson🧡 2)
"I find myself in an odd situation because the Afropessimists draw heavily on one of my books, 'Slavery and Social Death,' which is ironic, because I’m not a pessimist. I don’t think we’re in a situation of social death, because one of the elements of social death is that...