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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor

Princeton University

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

6 months

“It is ‘in the going toward’ that salvation can be found…. To be vulnerable, to tend and to love, to rip off the mask that blinds us to the beauty of the human being right in front of us. To recognize…disfiguring effect of hatred and fear, and the exacting power of love.”

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4 years

I wish some people were as unsettled by white nationalists as they are by democratic socialists.

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3 years

This country is in deep trouble...

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4 years

Pence lies with impunity and the veneer of religious piety.

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4 years

Reporters need to start handling Trump differently—more aggressively. I know we want to respect the office of the presidency, but he (the man) is fundamentally undermining the fourth estate.

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3 years

I am so tired of stupidity masquerading as reasonableness.

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4 years

It has become increasingly clear, at least to me, that the majority of Republicans in Congress and in the White House are an existential threat to this Republic.

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4 years

There is NO middle ground. Choose a side.

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4 years

I am so tired of this damn ritual of black grief in public. I am so fu*king tired of this.

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4 years

Ok. I am a professor and I shouldn’t say this. But, my goodness, some of these folks are just stupid.

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2 years

I need a freaking drink. This country is drowning in ideological idiocy.

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2 years

This man embodies the bad faith at the heart of American politics.

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Mitch McConnell: “After studying the nominee’s record and watching her performance this week, I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

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5 years

It took all of my power to remain relatively calm.

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WATCH: Eddie Glaude Jr. says White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney can't "acknowledge" that shootings in El Paso and Dayton are domestic terrorism because of the shooters' race. @esglaude : "I can give less than a damn what Mick Mulvaeny thinks about what I say."

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3 years

This is Time Square! I am trippin’, and you know I have to send this to my momma.

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2 years

I tested positive for Covid this morning. Fully vaccinated and boosted. Symptoms range from minor body aches, bad headache and scratchy throat. Be careful and get vaccinated and get your booster shot.

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2 years

I am stunned at the anti-vaxxer response to my tweet. We are awash in stupidity.

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3 years

We cannot separate what happened on January 6th from the racial reckoning we face as a country. We MUST see the two as inextricably connected.

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3 years

“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.” -Warsan Shire, “Home”

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2 years

This country is broken.

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3 years

Mom...look what happened! LOL

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Dr. Eddie Glaude ( @esglaude ) is the 2021 Stowe Prize winner! He receives the award for Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Visit for more info & updates. #StoweInspired

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3 years

It feels like the country is unraveling at the seams.

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4 years

After last night's event in South Dakota, we should stop using euphemisms to describe @realDonaldTrump 's campaign rhetoric. He has made explicit what lurked underneath the "southern strategy" all along: a white nationalist strategy.

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2 years

Some days, and this is one of them, I struggle to hold on to the faith that this country can be better.

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1 year

I still can’t believe that Walker is even competitive. Speaks volumes.

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4 years

I really think it is a bad idea to exclude @JulianCastro from this convention.

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3 years

Our world is exhausting...maddening.

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3 years

I flew to Mississippi to see my parents for the first time in close to two years. This is a bit of heaven.

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6 years

It is now official. I am the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton.

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3 years

"I would like us to do something unprecedented: to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy." -James Baldwin

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4 years

Stupidity plus power is killing us.

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5 years

Building “the wall” is like the building Confederate statues in the 1890s and 1950s. It would be a monument to an ideology. It has NOTHING to do with border security.

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2 years

I don’t know how this country is going to survive. Greed, racism, and selfishness are hollowing it out.

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5 years

This is a completely manufactured crisis driven by the racism of POTUS. It enrages me.

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A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, runs away from tear gas in front of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico. (📷: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

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I’m furious this morning after watching the video and reading some comments that he should have just complied. Comply with humiliation. Comply with the police’s refusal to answer basic questions. Comply with the real threat to your life. Comply with being treated like an animal.

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4 years

Just received the key to my hometown of Moss Point, Mississippi. My mother was able to join me on stage along with Mayor Mario King. Seeing the joy on her face made my heart leap!

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3 years

Should the FCC reinstate the Fairness Doctrine?

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4 years

Despite the craziness of this world, blessed to wake up for another year. #virgopower

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3 years

Merry Christmas. Say a prayer for those who have lost loved ones and have to face this holiday season without them. Lift them up. Say a prayer for those children separated from their parents. Pray that one day soon they will feel their embrace.

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2 years

I just voted and, honestly, I feel depressed. The fact that Republicans have any political standing at all… Anyway…

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3 years

The so-called moral outrage around Trump’s presidency did not produce any substantive shift in his Republican support. In fact, he expanded his base among white voters. Trump continues to flourish in the intersection of greed, selfishness and racism. 1/

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4 years

“Faith is being so sure of what the spirit has whispered in your heart that your belief in its eventuality is unshakable.” -John Lewis

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3 years

I just have to say this: @TuckerCarlson is an idiot and he is dangerous. I happened upon his show and was horrified.

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4 years

This is beyond irresponsible

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4 years

Polls open in minutes. Here’s a look at the line in Waukesha, the city’s only polling location

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2 years

I know it’s naive, but I really want our political leaders to respond to the serious crisis we face as a country without concern for their political futures. I know…naive/wishful thinking.

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3 years

“The country will not change until it re-examines itself and discovers what it really means by freedom.” -James Baldwin

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4 years

Unemployment dropped in May for white Americans from 14.2% to 12.4%. For African Americans it now stands at 16.8%. In April it was 16.7%

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3 years

When I hear talk of centrism and criticism of progressives, I hear the old politics that got us in this damn trouble. If Dems choose to retreat on the issues that matter to the people, especially Black people, who helped get them the White House, they should be held to account!

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4 years

It’s funny when progressives protest from outside of the political process they’re reprimanded for not understanding how politics works and urged to get in the game. When they get in the game and begin to change how we do politics they’re condemned for not falling in line.

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3 years

To paraphrase James Baldwin: the trouble is deeper than we wish to think, because the trouble is in us.

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5 years

We are in a cold civil war. No middle ground. Choose your side.

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4 years

“Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. He was 14 when he was killed, and I was only 15 years old at the time.... In those days, fear constrained us like an imaginary prison....” -John Lewis

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4 years

The president did not condemn white supremacists. He simply told them “to stand back and stand by.”

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3 years

Keep the pressure on Coca Cola, AFLAC, UPS, and Delta. Also include the S.E.C. Look at how they help bring down the confederate flag in Mississippi!

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4 years

Just had a thought: @JoeBiden should be conducting a series of public Zoom/webinars with experts across a variety of sectors about a broad/bold vision of America post Covid-19. 1/

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3 years

This is just too much...Damn...just too much.

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4 years

Let me be clear: if I am alive in November I plan to vote for @JoeBiden . That does not mean that until then I have lost all my critical faculties. I don’t approach politics like a sports fan.

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2 years

We face a choice as to what kind of country this will be. If you sit by quietly, you have made your choice. If you worry that we are going too far, you have made your choice. Either you fight for a just America or you side with the evils of our time. No middle ground!

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3 years

I am still thinking about this James Baldwin sentence: “We are still governed by the slave codes.”

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3 years

Admitting that America is a racist country isn’t a death sentence; actually, it is an admission/acceptance that may very well give the nation new life.

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I was feeling a bit down. And then I sat down for dinner at home. 10lbs of crawfish. Fried white trout, shrimp, oysters. And Jameson. I am happy.

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"[Cops] wanted me to beg. And I couldn't beg, so I got my ass kicked.... I learned there were very few who were humane; they just wanted you to say what they wanted you to say. They wanted to be confirmed in something by you. By your face, by your terror of them." James Baldwin

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2 years

Remember: @Sen_JoeManchin did the same thing with efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to $15hour.

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4 years

As we try and make sense of the brutal killing of #AhmaudArbery I can’t help but think of all the Black parents in this country who are filled with terror thinking about the safety of their children (whether they are an adult or a child). 1/

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3 years

This was surgical...

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Wow. Just... wow. @RepKatiePorter is so unbelievably good at this.

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I need a damn drink.

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4 years

I have to take a break from twitter for the day. Some of these people have lost their damn minds.

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3 years

Abolish the death penalty!

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6 years

It is about to get real ugly in this country. Buckle up.

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3 years

This moment is exhausting—physically, mentally, and spiritually.

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7 months

“We have yet to understand: that if I am starving, you are in danger." -James Baldwin

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2 years

Progressive caucus held out as long as they did, because they didn’t trust these people. And they were right!

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4 years

For two days straight I have been harassed by Biden/Clinton supporters on this platform. It's fascinating to experience this in this moment. Revealing...

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1. Some quick thoughts: The death of Rep. Elijah Cummings brings home that we don’t have many statesmen/women in our politics these days. Selfish and cowardly partisans dominate our current moment. Decency is rare. We’ve lost another giant in a time when we need his shoulders

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3 years

My anxiety levels are off the charts.

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3 years

Who believes that $600 is a sufficient response to what is happening around this country right now? I know there are other much needed elements in the bill. But what is going on in the minds of legislators to think that $600 is sufficient?

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3 years

"No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences...." -James Baldwin

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4 years

Not sure how to respond to @TuckerCarlson ’s commentary about me last night. The argument was so bad that it made me laugh. But then there is the ugliness of the phone calls and emails.

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We have witnessed 40 years of policies that have, in effect, shredded the social safety net and divested in the public sector. We now face a crisis that shows that the role of government involves much more than maintaining the economy or providing for the national defense. 1/

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3 years

Looking forward to joining the board of this very special institution!

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Morehouse College has elected alumnus, famed academician, and award-winning author Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ph.D. ’89 ( @esglaude ) to its Board of Trustees. Read more:

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I mean...damn...these people lie with impunity.

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This...is unconscionable.

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Tucker Carlson: "How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"

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Such an admission speaks volumes about who Tim Scott is.

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Bret: I want to ask you about the January 6th hearing. Have you learned anything new, is it troubling, and can you support Trump if he runs for president? Scott: I have not taken the time to watch the hearings… I think if trump is the nominee, of course we support him.

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Fearless @Yamiche

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Fascinating. @JoeBiden opens his speech quoting Ella Baker!

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We must be mindful of “the seduction of normalcy.” There is NOTHING normal about our current moment. Acting as if it is would be the equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns.

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What does it suggest that millions of Americans support this man?

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4 years

Placing shackles around the feet of Jacob Blake amounted to a physical reminder that he was still, no matter the protests, a n*gger in the eyes of these policemen. Baldwin was right: when it comes to policing in this country black people still live under the slave codes.

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Just an observation: this country is more tolerant of radicalism from the right than it is from the left. Why is that? I have an idea, but what do you think?

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I am sitting here in tears. Damn it!

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3 years

America is more than an idea. It is argument had over time. Not about perfection, but about the scope and reach of democracy. And I refuse to cede that argument to those who believe that I really don’t belong here.

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Momma look what happened! This tickles me.

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This election cycle, we finally have the chance to break the back of Reaganism. I hope we don’t squander it.

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"I would like us to do something unprecedented," James Baldwin wrote in 1967, "to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy."

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With my parents as I prepare to speak to the Mississippi state Conference of the NAACP. Excited and nervous.

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Fascinating: it is clear, at least to me, that some people didn’t disagree with the substance of “Trumpism,” but with the way he behaved/talked.

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“a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people, it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” -James Baldwin

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There is something fundamentally broken about this country. We have to face it, if we are going to change it.

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4 years

Don’t watch that video. Monstrous cruelty.

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4 years

I said it before and I will say it again about @realDonaldTrump and racial dog whistles: He doesn’t know how to whistle. He just ends up spitting on everybody.

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2 years

I want to scream…

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4 years

We have to change the frame. Fighting over who is more committed to “law and order” reproduces a way of thinking that undergirds a problematic view of policing in this country.

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