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As someone who wrote a book on campus racism, I need everyone to bookmark this tweet. Once the heat gets hot on Ole Miss student, this will happen.
a. Media/his allies will infantile him. They will call him a 'kid' or a 'boy'. That is to create a narrative...
I hate this video because it reinforces this idea that Black parenting is centered around violence. This ISN'T good parenting. This is lazy parenting where you haven't set expectations, and now YOU are the one acting out. We need to get rid of this.
That's too young to understand what is racist.
b. He will issue a mea culpa where he pretends to apologize for his action. May even have a press conference with Black people behind him.
c. He'll say...that wasn't the real me. And that he hates being judged by that one moment
Funniest thing: White folks hated affimative action, so they used it as a slur against Black folks. When the SCOTUS got rid of it, they were happy, but missed their slur, so they were sad again. But they found DEI, and voila, they could use it as a slur, and were happy again.
Didn't take more than a few days of Trump, but the brother who has done my locs for 25 years and who I argued up and down about how Kamala & Trump weren't the same but texted me to say I was right.
My response? No shit.
The undereducation of Black men is fucking alarming.
Auburn Men's Basketball Coach Bruce Pearl on Barack Obama:
"Rather than uniting us as a country... he divided us! Everything was black and white... everything was [about] the obstacles that were against my players from being successful!"
@dandakich@coachbrucepearl
Kamala is a classic case of what happens when you don't let losing stop you from getting better. She's a much better politician today than she was four years ago. Keep going. Get better. You WILL get the prize.