Esoterica: cohort
This right here? THIS IS EVERY DAY OF PHDing WHILE BLACK!!! Every day of your life becomes about anticipating, preparing for, and responding to the racial umbrage of white people who are, ostensibly, the most progressive and critical thinkers in the nation. And every day you realize that if the best and brightest of these the mightiest whitiest is this uncritical of their own thinking and deeply held beliefs? You realize there’s no hope for the less bright, less mighty, less white. You fucking realize that this is life and there is no post-racial option. Hell, there’s not even a post-asshole future possible. Because this is how deep white runs with people. It cannot be educated beyond or thought out of it. White gets deep in your guts like Wu Tang and controls you from the inside out. It is all and everything, alpha and omega. It is white and you are not and you will never not be and it will never not be and your entire faith in education, knowledge, and humanity dies every fucking day in class and people want to know why so many students of color fade out of graduate school. They assume that these students “can’t cut it” or were adversarial to the process when the truth most often is that we couldn’t stand to watch our entire faith in humanity and the fucking future die in millimeters while we chased an ever elusive tenure track job where the rest of our lives will be just like these classes.
Fuck.
ayyo, biggup to James Bliss for a rational critique of the “harmless” and “humorous” characterization. Interesting how this played out online - race “wrench”, wagon circling, dismissive commentary.
can’t wait for the school year
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double edit:
I hope I’m still invited to the Aristotle-themed dinner parties they want to have.
triple edit:
Apparently they replaced the race card with the race wrench.
quadruple edit:
A. Woodlawn is being…
Yep. Pretty much sums it up.
Signed,
A Hyde Park resident
