I worked at Davis Polk for two years (at one point as one of two Black people in the litigation department firm-wide). I worked on the 27th floor, where there was a floor-wide art installation centered around Black people picking cotton, entitled "Heritage of the South".
Top US law firm Davis Polk announces in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard University and Columbia University who signed on to organizational statements regarding Israel.
French racism is somehow even more embarrassing than American racism.
Anyway, a solution to the problem is to simply have Aya and Meg perform at the Olympics TOGETHER.
Megan (
@theestallion
) has become a trending topic on X/Twitter in France.
— In France, efforts are being made to prevent black French singer Aya Nakamura from performing at the Paris Olympics. However, Megan's photo was used in a racist French petition & several hate speeches…
The way helicopters have begun flying overhead and sirens have begun wailing since the announcement about a verdict having been reached—in Minneapolis.
I live in Baltimore.
This country is so afraid of us. Because it’s profoundly aware of its collective guilt.
Just listened to Dr Fauci talk about “the African Americans” while blaming us for our high
#COVID19
death rate and failing to acknowledge the role of structural and institutional racism. Wow.
What happened to Imani Perry's Twitter account is punishment for yesterday's op-ed, and that makes my blood run cold. It's worse than cyber-bullying. It actually feels like a form of terrorism, and it seems to be a sign of things to come.
Being a Black woman professor means receiving an email from a 1L to tell you that you haven’t taught a topic in sufficient depth when, in fact, you only begun the chapter in question.
Unpopular opinion: y’all need to read that manifesto. I read it last night. It was incredibly unpleasant, but provides a crystal clear look at what the Right has been doing to renegotiate the racial contract, how successful it’s been, and why what Dems are doing ain’t cutting it.
Folks, this is more of a call-in than a call-out:
I’m watching some prominent progressive white folks on the timeline posting video of Aretha Franklin and John Lewis singing and dancing and referring to them as angels “protecting” us.
Please stop this immediately.
The adultification of Black girls continues. This actually grieves me. She should be at home watching Doc McStuffins, not working. Not fighting. I refuse to celebrate a society that forces its Black children to serve as child soldiers. 😞
What’s spectacular about the draft opinion is that it’s much bigger than reproductive rights. The draft makes clear that any right not explicit enumerated in the US Constitution, implicitly covered by the Due Process Clause (subjective), or rooted in nat’l traditions/concepts of
That photo of
#JohnLewis
as a bridge folks are walking over? It is not okay for white people to keep posting it. His back is, and never was, for y’all to walk on.
Please read the room. Please see yourselves.
Don’t do, “benevolently,” what the Right does to us maliciously.
Clarence Thomas's consistent use of the term "blacks" and his refusal to capitalize the B tells so much of the story.
We are Black people. We are not "blacks". We are not a horde of ants or a group of goats. We are people.
My heart breaks for the Nichols family & Memphis community. I'm outraged to see yet another life taken by police brutality in this country.
This system is deeply in need of repair & I stand in solidarity with those demanding better as we work to build a more just nation for all.
Barely hanging on. I'm shocked, gaslit, terrified, enraged, disoriented, and depressed to the point of paralysis. I cannot believe what I'm seeing and I cannot believe that I can now be punished for acknowledging what I'm seeing. I am stunned by the uselessness of law. I despair.
Even if this rule change were acceptable, how would any Bahamian apply for a visa right now? And how would anyone be able to process and approve such a visa application?
Or, is that the point? This is beyond cruel.
#Bahamas
That’s it. We’re leaving — all Bahamian evacuees without a visa taken off. The Bahamians who remain are in shock. No one understands why the rule was changed at the last minute. The parents and kids now stuck on the island.
Did a round of rapid tests after dinner. Everyone is vaxxed except the 3 year old. Parents boosted. 5 year old’s 2nd dose was 12/10; she was fully vaxxed as of 4 days ago.
EVERYONE IS POSITIVE. Omicron does NOT care.
We’re all symptomatic, but doing okay.
Just got an email from one of the kid’s three schools that there is a positive COVID case. My kid is still at school.
Today is the FIRST day of school.
*screams primally*
A woman was hit by a train after her boyfriend pushed her onto subway tracks in Lower Manhattan, authorities said. She is reportedly in stable condition
This week, I joined the sorority of the millions women who experience pregnancy loss during their lifetimes.
I am shocked, I am devastated, & I know I’ll never be the same.
But I will be okay again, one day. And, importantly, I am not ashamed.
Onward.
When you do this, you are making minstrels out of Black people’s ancestors. You are playing into the trope of the Happy, magical Negro. You’re engaging in a fantasy that they work for you and that they continue to work for you posthumously. It’s much worse than condescending.
@KatAMacfarlane
This has filled me with rage. Wow. I'm sorry you went through that and am really grateful to you for shedding light on the experience so we won't repeat it.
In the draft, the majority also notes that the right to privacy is also not mentioned in the Constitution.
Also not specifically mentioned? Right to public education. Right to unionize. Right to healthcare. And so on and so forth.
And stop participating in
#digital
#blackface
more broadly. We are people, not pawns, not toys, not mules, and we are NOT your slaves. If you truly believe that Black votes matter, you’ve gotta believe that
#BlackLivesMatter
, too. And THIS means you have to treat us like PEOPLE.
When
@POTUS
calls the shooting “racially motivated” instead of what the shooter himself says it was—a white supremacist, anti-Black act of terrorism, he makes combatting racism—which is DEADLY—more difficult. He doesn’t want to alienate the Right, but the Right wants us gone.
The idea that Black people should be doing acts of service on MLK Day is a scam. This country tries to beat us into and under the ground every single day; please check your blood pressure, eat a long, late brunch, drink water, and take a nap.
The
#optimum
outage reminds me that I’ve been wanting to say this for a few weeks now: The
#internet
should be free, extremely fast, and universal across the United States and certainly in New York City, where the cost of living both merits and demands such an amenity.
Literally thousands of homes lack running water because the City ordered the water shut off for nonpayment. Detroit is the poorest big city in the
#USA
and the
#Blackest
. And
#water
is a
#human
#right
. HOW WILL PEOPLE WASH THEIR HANDS WITH NO WATER?
When y'all celebrate "first Black woman this" and "first Black that" and all of the First Blacks are being elected and appointed to do the devil's work, it makes me wonder exactly what our goals are... liberation? Or is it equal access to power to do evil that you're after?
US vetoes Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza
Favor: 12 (Albania, Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland,UAE)
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 2 Russia, UK
There is no way to be moderate about a radical agenda like Replacement Theory unless you are willing to sacrifice a score of innocent Black people to a gun-toting racist with a vision of (more) White Power and a stated allegiance to Dylan Roof every couple of years.
There is no singular Black community, Black people are not a monolith, the fact that some Black people traffic in antisemitism has nothing to do with the rest of us, and also you're a big racist. I'd put this comment in your replies so we can "talk" bug you've turned them off.
Hey, so with Kanye, Whoopi, Jamie Foxx and Carbi B all exposing themselves as antisemites, is now a good time to talk about how I was cancelled for saying that there's an antisemitism problem in the Black community? I'd like my reputation back.
For those unfamiliar with NYC, it is literally impossible to "run up through Central Park in Harlem." The northern border of the park, 110th street, is the southern border of anything that *might
*be considered Harlem. The Park divides the UES from the UWS. Period.
Today on my run up through Central Park in Harlem I saw four teenagers smoking weed. As I passed them I shouted in a firm but friendly voice: "Smells like failure!" and kept going. I said it as an act of love, honestly. I hope that at some point one of them might think about it.
No exaggeration—watching Surya Bonaly skate and be gaslit on international television when I was 8 is what taught me about racism, its brutality, its absurdity, and its costs.
I will never not be angry for her.
surya bonaly, the only olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one leg. she won silver at worlds 1994 instead of standing on the podium, she stood next to it because she believed she had been robbed of first place.
So, anyway, and in conclusion, I would like to sum my rant up in language that conservative and liberal people alike can understand:
All (of Kanye's) Violence Matters. 🙃😑
“Ordered liberty” (very, very subjective) is no right at all.
Nowhere in the text of the Constitution, any of the amendments thereto, or in our nation’s traditions/concepts of liberty are Black women contemplated. Nowhere.
The last thing I’ll say about this for now is that Justice Ginsburg was worth more than her job and her public service. Her value is not tied to her labor. Her family and friends are mourning her as their beloved, and not as someone who owed us all good health and longevity.
This issue has ALWAYS been about preserving a Black underclass for labor and proximity to death. Racial capitalism doesn't WORK when too many Black people go to Harvard.
They left it in military schools. Judge Jackson says: “The court has come…to the…conclusion that racial diversity in higher education is only worth potentially preserving insofar as it might be needed to prepare Black Americans…for success in the bunker, not the boardroom…”
Either you are fully committed to anti racism, or you are fertilizing the environment that made yesterday’s racist massacre possible.
Reading the manifesto will make that clear for you. Go ahead and read it. Confront the terrifying reality that I live. Do the work.
Contracts in the fall.
Constitutional law/ International Law seminar in the spring.
Introduction to Law….TODAY.
Send good vibes, fam! Today’s my first day of tenure-track teaching! 🥳😅🙏🏾
So do we start with the orthography issues, the racism, or the fact that Mr. Biles definitely follows gymnastics and absolutely knew who his wife was?
Or can we just continue to ignore him? I liked my life better before I knew he existed.
I ask because part of the Court’s rationale in this draft is the fact that abortion is a relatively recent right, not acknowledged until the latter part of the 20th century. Same-sex marriage? 2015. Laws banning sodomy judged unconstitutional? 2003. Racial segregation? 1954.
I remember when Pat Robertson said that God punished Haiti with the 2010 earthquake because it made a "pact with the devil" for freedom from France. He also called the earthquake, which killed countless Haitians, a blessing.
He was vile.
Hello. I need to brag. *ahem*
One of my newest essays, “Ukrainian Refugees, Race, and International Law’s Choice Between Order and Justice” is forthcoming in the American Journal of International Law this October. I am SO excited.
When I was in the 8th grade, I tied for the highest grades in my class. white principal at my parochial school changed policy about who could be valedictorian and salutatorian so that I would not qualify to be either.
After watching the women's NCAA basketball championship from the stands, Jill Biden says she wants Caitlin Clark and Iowa to join victorious LSU at the White House.
I’m over the idea of “Black girl magic” the way I’m over all magical Negro tropes.
Black women are human. We want to be respected, appointed, elected, PAID, and left to our own devices, accordingly.
This is why I constantly remind people against the conflation of the Israeli government and Judaism and Jewish communities. So many people of Jewish heritage and faith are (and have always been) aligned with justice, and they need our love, understanding, and support.
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of Jewish New Yorkers are flooding the entrance to
@SenSchumer
's home protesting genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
50+ are blocking the entrance to his home, including rabbis, elders, youth, and NY state electeds
@ZohranKMamdani
and
@MarcelaForNY
.
Yesterday, my very wonderful colleagues at
@URLawSchool
voted to promote me to the rank of Associate Professor. I am overjoyed and look forward to continuing to grow as a teacher and scholar. 🙏🏾❤️☺️
Before I pull my blanket up around my ears, I just want to let y'all know that the new Wizkid album is a solid 15 out of 10. No skips whatsoever. Layered, sophisticated musicality. Sensuality. Confidence. Gratitude. 🤌🏾 Give that ti h little man his flowers NOW.
#MoreLoveLessEgo
Today is my first day as a tenure-track professor. I can’t believe this day has finally come, but I’m glad it has, and I’m grateful to every single person who encouraged me along on this long, rich, memorable journey. 🥳
We have been yelling that he's a monster for the LONGEST time but because of who we are and because of who he usually attacks, you don't hear us.
Not misunderstood. Not eccentric. Malevolent. Hateful. Dangerous. And he regularly targets the most vulnerable and underprotected.
Someone I adore died suddenly this morning. The hospital she visited dismissed her respiratory symptoms and sent her away. She returned later and died, just hours ago. She was in her 30s, full of life and laughter and love. There is no comfort to be had.
The clerkship with Judge Johnson, mentioned in the Times piece, saved my career and my life. DPW destroyed some of my coworkers of color and didn't leave me unscathed, either.
After the fashion show with the horrendous whites supremacist shirts, he sicced his stans on a Black woman editor, clearly with the intent to use his platform to do her harm. We yelled.
Yall. Did. Not. Care.
@AneesaSM
He blamed the death toll on asthma, diabetes, and obesity and said everyone knows that those comorbidities are prevalent in the African American population. He said it was unfortunate and that there was nothing the government can do. I shit you not.
Sending all of our love and deepest thanks to American hero Senator
@tedcruz
for encouraging us to purchase this book by
@DrIbram
! Just arrived in the mail! 🥳🤓
He feels free to exercise his bigotry when he knows the bigotry shared by many others. He knows what he's doing. He knows the MAGA folks are antiSemitic. He also knows that no one cares about violence against women or misogynoir. He knows you'll say nothing in our defense.
There’s no need for additional suspense.
I’m exceedingly delighted that my newest Article has found a home at the
@CalifLRev
!
What a journey I traversed to arrive at this moment. I’m grateful for all of it, and for the friends who encouraged me along the way. On
@ssrn
soon!