Thinking a lot about how the day I got into Harvard three different white kids told me I only got in because I am Black, how after I won a litany of awards a faculty member called me a diversity hire and after I earned tenure another one let me think everyone felt that way, about
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how Black faculty and students and kids are being subjected to a national normalization of being called diversity hires and admits in the press and on social media How these are our conditions And how absolutely fucking nasty everyone who watches this and says nothing is
Better to be a diversity hire than a violent white supremacist colonialism hire