Harlem, NYC, 1971
(Photo: Jack Garofalo)

In a sane world, being a traitor to your community would involve concealing unflattering truths because you're more concerned about how your group is viewed than the problems facing those you advocate for.

Jim Jones' People's Temple was 75% black, and Angela Davis supported it. A year before the mass-suicide, she said to the people in Guyana in a phone call:

'I know you are in a very difficult situation right now and there is a conspiracy. A very profound conspiracy designed to…

I stand with you Tezlyn Figaro

#RogerFortson #justiceforrogerFortson

MIT recently banned diversity statements. People opposed to this move argue that diversity statements are not ideological litmus tests. But this argument plainly obscures the difference between 'diversity,' 'equity' and 'inclusion' as VALUES, and DEI as a packet of ideologies. 1/

My latest, for COMPACT, says all I have to say about the encampment protests.

Before going into that, I think it's important to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in #Gaza that the protests are 'about.' The Biden Administration has belatedly joined most of the rest…

Katherine Dunham (1909–2006), the 'Matriarch of Black Dance,' was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She formed Ballet Negre in 1930 and the Negro Dance Group in Chicago in 1933. In 1939, she became the dance director of the New York Labor Stage, and in 1945 opened the Dunham School…

'NYPD prevented a lynching today' but we should totally defund the police or send social workers in their place.

Incredible NEW convo with friend of the pod Dr Erec Smith (Erec Smith Likes Rhetoric) who is expertly pointing out the damage that modern DEI policies are doing on campuses and in corporate America. If you don’t know Erec, follow him now through his org Free Black Thought.

'You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers...and you can have a black guy's gun when he complies with a police officer's request to open the door and happens to be holding it at his side in a non-threatening way.'

[Watch the video:]

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All kudos and congrats to my friend and colleague Connie for bringing our Free Black Thought podcast thru two seasons and 50 episodes (and she's already deep into recording season 3)!

'There's no such thing as 'the black perspective,' just black people with perspectives.'

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'Contemporary Mississippi is better than this. We all know it. But you wouldn’t know it unless you’d spent time here. And now the latest Battle of Ole Miss has happened, and Faulkner’s ghost has risen once again, as it must—'The past is never dead. It’s not even past'—and…

Race is not the default definition of what it means to be human.

'There is a certain kind of story, a big loud violent story of racial antagonism gone rogue, that makes Mississippi, and Ole Miss, legible, graspable, to the rest of America.'

NEW in the Journal of FBT:

'THE FREEST THING ON EARTH: A black woman, white men, and the latest battle…

It's amazing how many folks who claim they support the Second Amendment believe people should never answer their door holding a gun.

Don't miss out! Episode 08 of #TheContrarian features a compelling conversation with Eric Kaufmann on political bias in academia.

Join us for insights and thought-provoking discussions.

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It still astonishes that cops and college officials believe this type of force is necessary to deal with unarmed students. Who is the snowflake now?

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We are rushing headlong into a hell of our own making. This is evil and this woman is evil. These freaks are determined to algorithmically strip mine every last scrap of your personhood so that engaging in basic human conduct without technical mediation becomes anxiety inducing.

This might seem like a dull topic but it was one of the most interesting conversations I've had on the pod.