Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A Black Professor Trapped in an Anti-Racist Hell

Thanks to moses for posting this piece. It was very disturbing. Maybe we need to hear from Keisha, the villain in this piece. But the impression one gets from it is that we are in the times of the Cultural Revolution, chinese style, where ideologically driven students are now prosecuting a war against established authority—in this case vincent lloyd, the author of the piece, the one who describes all the events to us.

We are in the grips of a new political age, i believe. The argument against the students and their leader, Keisa, is framed by republicans as a fight against wokism, and we have republican states' governors in florida and texas seeking to destroy the university stronghold, that is its intellectual capital, with brutal authoritarian control. In the counter to this we have keisha and the students equally adamant that they are facing racist patriarchs who are blind to their own compromised authority.

Since moses sent us this piece, and unlike me is still teaching at a prestigious university, i would love to hear his take on the piece. I imagine he is, like myself, sympathetic with the perspective of the author, who seems to represent a reasonable, decent anti-racist position. But is there another side to this that we cannot hear? I suspect i would have a very difficult time crediting such a position, but still i know i want to hear it from one espousing it, and not as reported by its opponent.

Ken

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