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@thurgoodhamer
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation is out! Historian and professor on weekdays. Ororo Munroe been my homie. These tweets are not my employer's.
Dec 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
"Misandry doesn't exist."
- Because feminism has taught you that "woman" is an ontological category.
- Even tho "black feminism" emerged because "woman" was not an ontological category.
- But you still believe the former in your heart even though you deny it with your words. - So because "woman" is an ontological category to you, defined by a universally oppressed status relative to "men," "man" is also an ontological category to you.
- And because "woman" is defined as that which is oppressed by "man," "men" can't experience oppression.
Sep 6, 2023 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Okay, I guess it’s time for me, a historian, to address this. I’m going to keep this thread short and sweet because I gotta get back to work. But this tweet (and several others like it) is an example of a lack of literacy. The first image is from Cleaver’s Soul on Ice. It is a memoir—Cleaver’s reflection on who he *was.* If you read the whole book, you’ll see he’s not proud of any of this. At the end of the book, he dedicates a chapter to black women and notice his contrition.
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Aug 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Overall, our results contradict the popular belief that black men prefer white women over black women and white men prefer Asian women over white women. Black men in fact demonstrate the strongest homophily tendency among male daters." Image "[A]n implicit suggestion of gendered racial formation theory is that Asian men's marginalization is equivalent to that of black women. Our results, however, make a strong case that the discrimination against black women is the single largest marginalization of note."
May 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Eboni K. Williams: black boys attend college at half the rate as black girls

Charlemagne: isn't the real problem the system?

Eboni: That's what I'm saying! You can't bring home bad grades and then go to college seeking higher skills.

Me: that's not addressing the SYSTEM, boo She's yelling about the "bigotry of low expectations"

BUT

Research shows that black parents have the highest expectations for their kids educational attainment

AND

Teachers have low expectations for black boys

AND

Black boy suffer highest rates of exclusionary discipline
Aug 26, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
"Black women are uniquely burdened by student debt"
fox13memphis.com/news/local/bla…

I keep seeing this everywhere, but it doesn't make intuitive sense. Why would black men come out of college with less debt than black women?

I'm thinking out loud... According to the report, black women graduate college with an average of $38,000. Black men graduate with an average of $35,000. That doesn't seem to be a big enough difference to say that black women are *uniquely* burdened. It seems black *people* are especially burdened.
Aug 25, 2022 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Public college and trade schools should be free.

It's no secret that I completed my undergraduate degree at an Ivy League school--Princeton. I only bring this up because of Marjorie Taylor-Greene's dog whistle that loan forgiveness will pay for fancy ivy league degrees. Just before I begin my freshman year at princeton, the University switched to a need-based financial aid program. So financially wouldn't be based on your grades, your test scores, or your extracurriculars--just the university's calculation of what your family could afford.
Aug 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When we talk about Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman, suffocated her baby to death to spare the child a life of slavery, we (rightfully) don't try to hold her "accountable" for infanticide. Instead we talk about the impossible choice she made, often in heroic terms. I do not think of Garner as a hero nor as an abuser. She, like (anti)blackness in general, presents a problem for thought itself.
Aug 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"Accountability" is the word of the day? Dope. Read more Saidiya Hartman (always). Liberalism demands accountability from individuals--even individuals with limited means of political and economic power--by displacing the state's responsibilities onto the atomistic person. Or, more simply, you segregate, economically oppress, under-educate, over-police, under-protect, and over-expose a community to psychic, libidinal, and material violence and instead of *accounting* for that, you pathologize the community as if its woes are endemic and hereditary.
Jul 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Ok, so this tweet was in response to that whack T.D. Jakes sermon. But this is kind of a typical response and... well, I'll offer an observation in the next set of tweets below... Image I've already made my snarky tweet about Jakes and his sermon. He ain't shit and neither is his message.
Jul 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Breathe in...
"These authorities... have spread a message 'so egregiously misleading it amounts to misinformation.' That message? Anyone can get monkeypox."

Breathe out...
"On its face, the 'anyone can get monkeypox'
messaging is true." Yes, anyone can get MP. Yes, it appears to be spreading most quickly among MSM.

But, the data is also unreliable: there's no coordinated effort to track monkeypox infections or to do contract tracing in the United States. And comparing MP to a hurricane is silly to me.
Jul 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the replies to this thread have been interesting and helpful. the heterogeneity in black american cultures--with an 's'--is on full display. i remember suggesting in my comps that the unique experience of blackness in the united states disrupts the supposed distinctiveness of race vs ethnicity--for us, racial and ethnic and even national identity have been the same.
Jun 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is what I'm talking about, fyi. Most interpersonal violence in this country is intra-racial obscures that intracommunal violence is a symptom and function of segregation. Segregation is white violence normalized as a natural social structure. That normalization and naturalization makes it easy to focus on the symptom rather than the multivariate causes. Yes, there is homophobia in back communities, but the reason it seems like ours are "especially" homophobic is because segregation obfuscates white violence.
Apr 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ron DeSantis signed the No Patient Left Alone Act today, Florida. It's another GOP reactionary law, this time to prevent healthcare facilities from prohibiting visitations as they did during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. What's terrifying about this law is that legislators and the governor decided that they are more qualified to decide good medical practice than medical practitioners.
Apr 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Relevant reading on how prosecutors are essentially granted sovereignty--in their case, the unchecked ability to decide who will be subject to criminal law and who will be excepted from it. Read the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… This passage is exemplary of the point: prosecutors may selectively seek to enforce criminal law and SCOTUS has decided that it doesn't matter whether the result is discriminatory, only if the stated, explicit intent is. So, prosecutors just don't have to explain their choices.
Apr 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
this is untrue. people need to read footnotes. like... it's an article of legal scholarship. the footnotes are integral to the text.
Apr 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
These are the two men who decided no charges will be filed against the officers who barged through Amir Locke's door with a no-knock warrant and fatally murdered him on his own couch. Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Their rationale is that they can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the cops' actions were a criminal violation. And indeed, under Minnesota's VERY broad use of force statute, it seems impossible to hold officers accountable for cold-blooded murder at all:
Feb 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
So, she wasn't a good teacher? Students be:
- busy
- tired
- overwhelmed

Some be:
- academically underprepared
- reading but not understanding

What she decided was she was only gonna "teach" those who were already prepared and motivated. And she got paid well to do it. Smh.
Jan 19, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1. What I say below is NOT an endorsement of Umar Johnson.
2. Data repeatedly shows that black men are not more homophobic than black women. Sex has no statistical significance. Homophobia is most prevalent among straight people and folks who hold traditional gender beliefs. Traditional gender roles doesn't just mean men's attitudes about masculinity; it also includes women's attitudes about masculinity and the proper place of men and women in society. Go to your nearest Beulah Baptist Church: predominantly women, predominantly homophobic.
Jan 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
You have to not know/care about black women's history to have this take. When asked about women's lib, a black woman I study, Christia Adair, born 1893 and passed in 1989, said, "“I don’t particularly care about woman lib because the Negro woman has always had to work." This girl isn't having some great epiphany. This isn't a "cultural shift." She isn't anti-work. She isn't anti-capitalist. She's still concerned only with herself. She just wants to work without a guaranteed wage under the thumb of a man who she's romanticized in her head.
Jan 4, 2022 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
I imagine part of what's being missed here is that when Curry says "black feminist arguments" he's talking about a body of academic work and not "black women." He's well aware that black women contemporaneously held black male Panthers to task. And he's also aware that, as is... evident in the autobiographies of many Panther women, that many women were invested in the idea of male stewardship over black communities--of proving the manhood of the race by proving the manhood of its men. This had been the case long before the BPP existed, too.
Dec 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1st tweet so ironic. BMS is not intersectionality + black men, then stir. Black feminist theory has tended to treat gender as an analytical category applicable to black life, whereas BMS, following the likes of Sylvia Wynter, sees gender as a technology of anti-blackness. So, Wynter says, she is "appalled" at what "feminism... became." Feminist scholars had adopted gender as an analytic--a means by which grievances could be articulated in order to seek incorporation--rather than as symptomatic of the existing order.