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Mark Naison

@badasspapamark.bsky.social

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Professor of African American Studies and History at Fordham University. Founder and Director, Bronx African American History Project. Most popular course: "From Rock and Roll to Hip Hop." Defender of Public Education. Lover of Sports and Good Food.

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · May 15

As we can see from which books are being banned and whose portraits are being taken down, attacking DEI and Critical Race Theory is just a new way of attacking Black History and Black People.

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · May 9

Columbia Protesters and Gaza
For those upset by protesters who seized a room in Columbia's Butler Library before they were removed by police-Whatever injuries they inflicted on people or property at Columbia is dwarfed by the violence Israel is inflicting on people and the built environment in Gaza

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · May 9

No major university will voluntarily relinquish control of admissions and faculty hiring. This is a battle the Trump administration will lose, even if it inflicts unimaginable hardship on the universities it targets.

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 28

We need a 24 hour vigil outside the National Museum of African American History and Culture to prevent Trump Administration officials from trying to shut down any of its exhibits!
#saynotofascism

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 24

Some Good News!
The Trump Administration is so Incompetent that it’s giving Fascism a bad name!!

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 24

Every morning when you wake up say
NO!
Then say it again
NO!
This is what Canada did!
This is what China did!
This is what Harvard did!
You can do it too!
Every day!

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 16

I jost posted this article on #TheEducatorsRoom, for whom I will now be a regular columnist on higher education issues.

theeducatorsroom.com/dei/

Resisting the rollback: How select universities maintain DEI programs despite federal pressure - The Educators Room

DEI programs are under attack. Here's what private institutions like Fordham University and Georgetown Law are doing.

theeducatorsroom.com

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our universities are far from perfect institutions- but resisting fascism requires a strong civil society, so we need to defend their autonomy from government edicts which seek to control what people teach and what subjects professors and students focus their research on

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 8

Some people will lose everything
Many people will go broke
But in the face of all the madness
I wont stop being “woke.”

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Apr 6

Some people are about to discover that rage and hate don’t pay the rent and put food on the table.

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 30

I don’t feel like I am living in a dictatorship.

I feel like I am living in a toxic environment produced by would be dictators who can’t achieve their ultimate goal. but are willing to inflict unimaginable pain in a desperate effort to get there

Do not concede defeat.

They are not going to win.

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 29

Food from Johnson’s BBQ is making my students very happy!!! They ate all the ribs, chicken and mac and cheese!

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 29

I will not give an inch to racists and fascists, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
I am not sure that makes much of a difference.
But I had to say it anyway just to clear the air!

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Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 24

://forward.com/fast-forward/706834/palestinian-director-of-no-other-land-beaten-and-arrested-in-the-west-bank/

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 24

Will historians of the future say:
“The liberal arts, and the historic mission of great universities, died at Columbia without a whimper.”
Is there any resistance to what just happened?
Where are the leaders?
If Columbia held out longer, it would have given other universities time to prepare

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 24

It’s really quite simple. There are too many of us to control if we refuse to obey.

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 23

Just watch! We are about to head into the Springtime of Anti-Fascism!

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 23

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 22

Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · Mar 21

Every morning when you wake up, look in the mirror and shout "I'm Not Dead Yet!"