ProfYolonda
Philosopher-Bioethicist with Georgia’s red clay in my blood. Feminist. Race woman. Views are my own.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaAnd, perhaps most importantly, people grasped that if the video didn’t exist and instead King had told everyone what happened, nobody would’ve believed him. It certainly wasn’t news to everybody, of course. But it was news to a lot of people.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaPeople had been telling stories about things like that happening forever and it was always dismissed as hyperbole or worse and then, suddenly, people had to confront the reality that, yes, shit like that happened. There it was.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaCause again, what everyone is really activated by, is white people getting the splash affects of state-sponsored antiblackness. Not the antiblackness itself.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaAnd I'm talking about antiblackness because the president just made a speech last week explicitly calling for the removal and extermination of Black immigrants, full on full frontal racism And y'all still talking bout thess white folks. Bet you didn't even know that speech happened.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaBut what folks don't realize, is that an antiblack society is a society built around death. Slaughter and necromancy ass settler colony. The violence is *never* limited to only Black people, and by not opposing Black death, you give you ok for ALL manner of life to be obliterated by this society.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaEvery single thing that Trump is doing to help rig the election has been happening since before he even had his first term. Trying to steal elections is not a new concept for Black communities.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons | HISTORY share.google/MKqqnmqTwNNP... Rights in this country are always contingent on who they apply to.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaI think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.
- ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaTo reiterate from two weeks ago, how much of a BITCH do you have to be be fighting someone 8v1, and still 'fear for your life?'
- Reposted by ProfYolondaOver several decades, the WHO has played a huge role in bringing countries together to reduce death and disease at an unprecedented scale. It is by no means a perfect organization, but we can only improve it by continuing to participate. Withdrawal is reckless and makes us all more vulnerable.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaToday marks the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade—a ruling that affirmed women’s right to have control over our own bodies. Four years ago, a MAGA-influenced Supreme Court overturned it. Women now have fewer rights, and many have died after being denied essential reproductive healthcare. (1/2)
- Reposted by ProfYolondaNot knowing Fred Rogers political opinions is a total skill issue, because in addition to the famous examples that always get mentioned, Neighborhood of Make Believe stories were frequently metaphors for current events.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaSome men would rather destroy a nation and post weirdly embarrassing shit on social media than work through their childhood psychological trauma.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaSometimes it feels like we are a nation beholden to the unresolved daddy issues of scared little authoritarians like “freedom loving Patriot” Glenn Beck.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaY’all gotta stop acting like Usha not a willing participant.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaYou guys keep projecting some kind of imagined grit onto Usha, as if you haven’t seen an endless series of racist right-wing south asian americans in politics, business, and entertainment
- Reposted by ProfYolondaChuck still thinks of himself as a "minority party leader" not an "opposition party leader". He cannot see--he is incapable of seeing--the distinction.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaLiterally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
- “Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThis is why I've been saying Dems lost 2024 the moment the decided to let him run out the clock in on his first term instead of demanding removal and prosecution while the Capitol was still on fire. They told everyone the coup wasn't that big of a deal!
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe guy tried to overthrow the government and instead of throwing him in jail at the earliest opportunity they slow walked the investigation If you point out there's a fire you better act like there's a fire
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThis is *exactly* it Democratic messaging has been "Trump is an existential threat to the Republic...and here's how I'll work with him."
- Reposted by ProfYolondaRegular people hear the alarmism and respond with: “If emergency then why not emergency energy?” And they’re right!
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe problem was not labeling Trump correctly as a fascist. The problem was not treating him as one. They still aren’t! That creates a gap where you’re warning people that things are on fire, but instead of evacuating or getting water, you’re casually sitting down with a cup of tea.
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- Reposted by ProfYolondaThis backlash is usually traced to status anxiety of MAGA whites to Obama. But he represented a conventional and in ways reactionary *public* figure wrt domestic & international liberation movements, and Obama-to-Trump crossover voters suggest they knew this. I'd point to elite status anxiety more.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThere was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaone of many reminders you’ll get on MLK day that he was a radical. do not cherry-pick his quotes about love today, especially if you are white:
- Reposted by ProfYolondaMLK: "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period...was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people" The "appalling silence of the good people" has long inspired me to speak out. We need more of that today!
- Reposted by ProfYolonda“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,” MLK wrote. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-fight-...
- Reposted by ProfYolondaLove the depiction of how more multicultural and dimensional the South has been than it is usually given credit for in popular media #HATM www.npr.org/2017/03/18/5...
- Reposted by ProfYolondaWatching this scene in Sinners. It hits! It’s absolutely diabolical & sinister that white supremacy prefers to taint & twist the human connection. Preacherboy opened his mouth and everyone who was in there had an ancestor and connection to the future show up. THAT’S POWER! youtu.be/S7jo5Cr6WUA
- Reposted by ProfYolondaHonestly, the Falcons downgraded with their hire.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe Falcons are so excited about their new head coach that they announced him at 10pm on Saturday night in the middle of a playoff game.
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- Reposted by ProfYolondaBeing required to present proof of citizenship to someone not required to present proof they're actually law enforcement is one hell of a dichotomy
- Reposted by ProfYolondathis is your "white moderate" dr king spoke about...
- Reposted by ProfYolondaI gave him a chance, but that's a block. Why are these AI cultists so devoted to their golden idol? I know my own goddamn profession, trust me on this.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaNo, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaAnd one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class. If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class. Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaI have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaAn impressive number of graduate applications this year used the phrase “curiosity-driven approach” 🤔
- Reposted by ProfYolondaHow much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."
- Reposted by ProfYolondaIf ChatGPT can improve your writing it means your writing was dogshit to begin with, so much so that ai slop counts as any kind of improvement. I would be embarrassed to admit this.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.
- Reposted by ProfYolondathat shit should show up in primary ads.
- Reposted by ProfYolondalike, Newsom's 2028 strategy has been, "hire energetic people who are good at anti trump messaging to troll trump" and then ben shapiro says, "choose me or fighting trump you coward" and Newsom said, "Oh of course I pick you Ben. It's always you."
- Reposted by ProfYolondaI wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThis is a whole thing right now. Lots of people with power and privilege using the oppressed as a shield to justify their inaction—when the oppressed are actually already very much in the fight and need solidarity and support to strengthen their actions.
- Reposted by ProfYolondaThe point here is to believe people when they tell you who they are. Gavin Newsom hangs out with Republicans because he likes hanging out with Republicans. This isn't 4-D chess. He wants to hang out with Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon. When he says he agrees with them on things, it's because he does.
