Critical Trap Theory
@dr_kunta23
I stir up negroes for a livin. Assistant Professor @UCLALuskinSW. Organizer. Educator. Husband. Friendly Neighborhood Abolitionist. Tweets are mine. DCT III
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I hope faculty who are removing race, gender, and other targeted topics off their syllabi understand that: 1) cowardice will not save you, and 2) you are increasing the scrutiny on your colleagues who cannot or will not abandon these research areas. Have some damn solidarity.
Five years after George Floyd was murdered, the state isn’t just doubling down — it’s building an entire war machine to crush our communities. Some say Trump is borrowing from the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s authoritarian playbook. But the truth is, these tactics…
Check out our new piece in the Guardian! Has America learned anything from the George Floyd uprisings? | @Ericangelo_ms and David Turner III theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“What makes me mad is that the rules were fake.” 🎯 tiktok.com/t/ZT6169qYx/
The Black Panther Party wouldn’t “sit this one out” or tell our people this isn’t our fight. Just saying.
THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed in the House, but there's something that isn't getting attention, that is difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.
Marc Lamont Hill’s presence on the JBP is about more than just standing up for Mel or arguing with Ish. The most important thing about his presence there is that he is doing what a lot of folks aren’t willing to do, and that’s slowly help your friends unlearn ignorant babble.
Everyone’s a point guard until that trap comes.
The homie @Ericangelo_ms said this in class today!
Any time I speak at a college, a student activist asks “How do you have hope? How do you keep going?” and they mean well but Girl, Mumia Abu Jamal is in a jail cell dying from Hepatitis and he still does everything he can to support the struggle. Who tf are we to not have hope??
We are so thrilled to introduce our new FAJI Fellows--seven early-career scholars whose work brings activism and the Abolition Reparations Investment Safety (ARIS) framework into the academy. Read about their projects here: bit.ly/3WXHonE
Congrats fam!!!
I’m excited to announce that I've accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Law at @USCGouldLaw, starting July 2025! None of this would be possible without my community of mentors, and the colleagues I’ve met along the way. Go Trojans! #USC
The radicalization of Macklemore is exactly why they are trying to censor everything white folks read and consume. They don’t want regular “Americans” starting to think like this.
I’m excited to announce that I've accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Law at @USCGouldLaw, starting July 2025! None of this would be possible without my community of mentors, and the colleagues I’ve met along the way. Go Trojans! #USC
Political symbolism =/= Political Organizing Political commentary =/= political organizing Political art =/= political organizing. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
It’s not lost on me, that two white men who inherited, stole, and finessed their enormous wealth and power are now leading a crusade against “Diversity” based “merit.” They didn’t “earn” any of that shit. It was literally handed to them with “small loans of a million dollars”
the united states has convinced do many people that MLK day is a day of service. MLK wasn't interested in "service," he was interested in the redistribution of wealth to render poverty obsolete. Less service, more redistribution
We gotta develop a healthy relationship with discipline. For many of us, it’s been forced upon us in punitive ways, leading people to see it as oppressive or useless. But there’s a healthy and positive side to discipline that isn’t about punishment - it’s about building habits,…
Is that… class consciousness?
holy shit they’re finally realizing it
Bruh it’s so damn hard 😩😩😩
Quiet as kept, it’s actually pretty hard to be a Lakers fan