Recent discussions about Black male college matriculation have shifted the focus onto individual choices rather than systemic barriers. Instead of asking, ‘Why aren’t Black men choosing to attend college?’ the more accurate question is, ‘What socioeconomic and political forces have stripped these opportunities away from Black men? These discussions rests on a false assumption: that because Black women and girls navigate the same systemic terrain as Black men and boys, any disparities in educational outcomes must stem from deficiencies in focus, ambition, or intellect among Black males. This is flawed. The idea that Black men and boys experience systemic oppression in the same way as their female counterparts is not true. Both face anti-blackness and systemic racism; however, that does not entail that it is of the same qualitative kind or impact.

I’m proud these rappers are speaking out & making it clear their experiences with older women were not okay. Rather than mislabeling his encounter as enjoyment, YG is helping other Black boys understand it’s okay to acknowledge discomfort and speak honestly about what happened.

https://twitter.com/gothamhiphop/status/1905636282509713688

Three studies—these are, to my knowledge, the first empirical investigations (not just mentions) that seriously examine Black male sexual vulnerability, specifically in relation to older women and girls. The first study challenges the idea that even when Black boys are raped, they desired the “sex” with older women. The second centers on interviews with Black boys who were raped by older women, giving voice to their experiences. The third counters the stereotype that Black boys don’t value intimacy or care in choosing sexual partners. It shows that, contrary to the belief that they’ll sleep with “whoever they can,” many Black boys actually choose to lose their virginity with someone they trust—friends or girls they feel safe and connected with.

Anyone who continues to cite Olúfemi Táíwò’s review of The Man-Not as an example of intersectionality either fails to keep up with the evolution of these debates or is unaware of the numerous responses that have challenged that claim. For starters, Taiwo contests Curry’s rejection of intersectionality, arguing that Curry’s critique does not invalidate intersectionality as a theoretical framework. He argues that Curry’s book misrepresents intersectionality by treating it as a fixed ideology rather than a flexible analytical tool (This will be important for later).

I came up with this thought experiment about why applying present ideological labels doesn’t work and it lowkey came to me in a dream. So, imagine a historian from the future, let’s say the year 2415—travels back in time to the present day. This historian has been raised in a world where a new, ideology has completely reshaped society’s understanding of justice, power, and identity. Let’s call this ideology Equo-Symmetrism.

One notable aspect of Steinem's connection to the CIA is that she openly acknowledged it during her younger years but later began to deny it—leaving reporters to uncover the information themselves. Here is what blows my mind though: from the outset, Steinem’s connection with the CIA was to engage students and young scholars from around the world, to create a network of liberal/anti-communist groups who could further American interests and ideology during the Cold War. umsl.edu/~thomaskp/pfp.…

Here are 4 premises for the logical coherence of Anti-Black Misandry (ABM)

Premise 1: As defined by Dr. Tommy J. Curry, ABM uniquely targets Black men and boys, birthing race & gendered cultural caricatures underpinned by historical, societal framework, as well as institutions.

https://twitter.com/flutterrbat/status/1792268605620474299

Premise 2: The unique targeting of Black males through policies like disproportionate rates of incarceration and the enforcement of the war on drugs is not solely racial but also distinctly gendered. This targeting is evident in the sexualization of their bodies and the historical and contemporary portrayal of Black males as hypersexual threats, which fuels and justifies their excessive punishment and surveillance.

In Ilan Pappe’s text “The Ethnic cleansing of Palestine”, he demonstrates how, Israel deliberately and systematically expelled Palestinians from their homeland to establish a Jewish majority in the newly created state of Israel. 1) He shows how, through ethnic cleansing,

https://twitter.com/robhimsis/status/1711746998590923258

or what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (meaning catastrophe) they were able to solidify their project. For example, Pappe shows how a military plan drawn up by a Zionist organization was the basis/model used to remove and displace Palestinian people with

Here come the ahistorical “I wish the Black community would move like this if it happened to Black women” takes. Entire movements and riots have started due to Black women being harmed in our communities. Just because you don’t read or have the knowledge don’t mean it isn’t true. One of the motivating factors for why Robert F Williams started his Black armed guard was specifically because he couldn’t convict white men for the rape of Black women.

It’s fascinating how progressive Black male leaders have been on issues of gender and sexuality when you actually read history. 1) The league revolutionary Black workers were the first Detroit organization to run a transgender candidate for political office in the 70’s. 2) Robert F Williams started his Black armed guard specifically because he couldn’t convict white men for the rape of Black women.

Anti-Black Misandry is specific to Black males. How is it that it doesn’t exist but Black boys have the highest rates of child abuse ending in death? Highest expulsions & suspensions? Black men have highest incarcerate rates & death by police. Patriarchy targets racialized males!

https://twitter.com/RVAReid/status/1556639793039253505

SDT have shown this empirically. patriarchal societies with an economic surplus, use arbitrary set discrimination (race) which is conditioned on gender. This means that dominant groups (whites for example) target out group males (Black men for ex) with lethal extermination.

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective (Chetty et al 2008) This was the explosive longitudinal study which documented that controlling for parental income, Black boys have the lowest social mobility of all groups. This inter-generational study shows that once u condition on parental income (focus on groups at the same income level) there is very little gap between white females & Black females as it pertains to social mobility. The disparities are driven almost entirely between WM & BM.

Anti-Black Misandry (or Racist Misandry) isn’t real according to this app, but you look at the majority of socioeconomic indicators which violently undermine our communities i.e. Incarceration, police killings, umemployment, social mobility, etc, & they all target BM primarily. every once in a while, you’ll get some1 who believes they’re sophisticated to say, “well bc of BM’s race, not gender!”, then you have to ask: if you’re comparing intra-racial groups, how is it that BW (race+gender) have lower rates in these categories than BM with just (race?)

Prof Nicola Graham-Kevan speaks about how her initial research into patterns of intimate partner violence was not sufficient enough and based on faulty data methodology. (“Cont…) Prof Nicola Graham-Kevan talks about how she realized she biased her own data (which had already been cited multiple times) by seeking out already know perpetrators and victims without even accounting for the possibility of male victims and female perpetrators.

Respectability should not be conflated with having no standards at all, particularly, for politicians who should be attempting to covet your votes through specific policy and engagement with your community. When Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1993) wrote Righteous Discontent and coined the “politics of respectability” she was speaking to how Black women out of the Baptist church organized programs to resist racism by teaching middle class white norms to women in an attempt (cont)

Support for egalitarian society by race and gender: These were the three survey questions asked:

Dr. Tommy Curry was asked about intersectionality: Many of the intuitions we have about intersectionality are false, but it has taken on a kind of “obviousness” within the cultural lexicon of the public:

Why would this assume Black women are stupid? I find it odd how Black men can be said to be perpetrators of harmful ideas birthed from white folks, but somehow Black women are immune? How does that work?

https://twitter.com/kyla_lacey/status/1541757759565271040

It’s never been that Black feminist are “too dumb or too stupid.” And it’s NOT that Black women haven’t dealt with their own contradictions with men in Black communities: rather how some BF have conflated, codified, & reused the template WW have with their men, for Black men.

This not even a point of contention that BM are the most progressive group of men. The data shows Black men are actually more progressive than Black women in some categories. Here are a few points. 1) Stances on Abortion 2) BM on Black feminist beliefs 3) BM on gender equality.

https://twitter.com/hireblackppl/status/1541823385747034113

Anti Black Misandry is such a feature of prominent discourse that, showing actual evidence to the claim of BM progressive causes dissonance amongst people who don’t even study this literature or speak to Black men about their beliefs. They go off viral twitter post, embarrassing.

I thought folks would see it; I thought the contradictions would be self evident. But during the pandemic, your government said fuck you. Millions of people died and millions more have chronic illnesses for life. Rent is high, gas is damn near higher. & you have no healthcare. It’s not enough to be mad. But it should definitely anger you that the very same politicians who are nonchalant about your life will probably outlive you because they have access to basic necessities and you don’t. You already die more and they laugh in your face about it.

Giving a historical and intellectual genealogy of intersectionality which is very distinct from the “Triple Oppression” that many Black women communist have articulated for over a century. Intersectionality has never been revolutionary.

https://twitter.com/rznwamedia/status/1514450963624517632

Cont… Part 2 the conflation between intersectionality (based on juridical tenets) & other modes of thought from Black women socialist/communist is problematic bc intersectionality has always disallowed the sexual vulnerability of Black males based on “Sameness and difference”

Uh oh y’all. It’s the BM privilege checklist.

Look at #1 😂

It assumes that racism and sexism are necessarily distinct, and doesn’t account for the fact that all racism encompasses sex based oppression.

https://twitter.com/bemobrown/status/1485023346790223872

#2 pretends we all don’t all learn about the same 5-6 people in grade school (MLK, Corretta, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks). Pass grade school, Black men don’t even matriculate anywhere near the rates of women. So what privilege?