Not the Only One

Unsurprisingly the west continues its colonial mindset in the Israel debacle. Insofar as anything the west and its allies does is justified, even so far as murdering an entire ethnic group, whereas if any action is done by any group not aligned with Washington, it is unjustifiable. [ #israel #iran #yemen #colonialism #internationalRelations ] #SideBySide

I was notified today that I now join the list of Black professors at Texas A&M University who have been targeted by the Texas Scorecard, a conservative news outlet that have weaponized the open records laws against the likes of Dr. Kathleen McElroy and Dr. Arica Brandford. In my case, the Texas Scorecard have filed an open record request for my employment file, course syllabi, and email communications. They are more than welcome to contact me directly and I will consider personally providin...

I think it’s worth noting that it’s really hard for consultants to present meaningful recommendations to executives as really good recommendations tend to be counter-intuitive. Why are they counter intuitive? Because if they were intuitive, the company would already be doing that. But that’s not what executives are often looking for. More often than not, they want to feed their confirmation bias and paying someone a lot of money to tell them they’re right is a lot more satisfying.

What cops and military learn doesn't apply at all to most of us. Their role is focused on being the attacker, the violator, the oppressor, in a context where they're backed by state resources. Why would I trust a cop to teach me how to protect myself against abuse when most of them are domestic abusers themselves? What would they know about self defense when they only know how to be on the other end of violence?

They are often in the Indigenous-identified job carrying much of the responsibility for engaging with and being accountable to community while cleaning up the daily damage the institution inflicts upon mob & dealing with daily racism from colleagues.