We asked black students what they would like to see in curriculum that would better support them in their education and here are their answers. (thread 🧵)

I can't lie. I'm tired of tipping. Everywhere I go I'm tipping somebody and I'm a good tipper. I'm just tired of making up the difference of what an owner should be paying they're employees.

Too many scholars have co-opted intersectionality in an effort to not fully engage with their own whiteness. The long arm of settler colonialism works in many ways.

It’s almost like a moral panic was entirely manufactured to advance a political agenda.

I know I invoke James Baldwin a lot. Too much. But he was so right: “white folk” can’t believe what Black people say is happening to them, because to believe it requires that they confront themselves.

Every four years, people who don’t know politics suddenly become experts on how we should vote.

For all those who think DEI hiring in academia is a significant threat.

Renaming "accent reduction" to "intelligibility enhancement" is still problematic as it frames intelligibility as a speaker trait rather than a joint responsibility of speaker and listener.

One of the interesting responses to this article is all the white liberals pretending they don’t call the police on their Black and Latinx neighbors for having parties during regular hours, as well as calling the police on homeless people for simply yelling. 🙃

If W.E.B. Du Bois were alive today to write about “colonial imperialism” as racial domination and capitalist exploitation, rest assured there would be a bunch of reactionaries trying to discredit his work, just like they did when he was alive.

In retrospect maybe it was bad to have nine unelected officials who decide our most important laws behind closed doors with total immunity and a lifetime appointment while gladly and openly taking bribes.

Many people are fine jettisoning democracy if it has to be a multi-racial democracy. Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.

"Giving voice to the voiceless" needs to be rephrased as "listening to those who have historically been silenced."

STFU, Atlantic.

Title 1 is not an adjective that should be used to describe kids. Hope that helps.

Whenever someone says they’re a child of immigrants, they should have to disclose whether we’re talking about like a child of asylum seekers or a child of the reason someone else had to seek asylum. I feel like that gap is pretty important.

The worst kind of language policies are those that prevent people from communicating what needs to be made public.

White students protesting integration.