Black Guy Does Sociology
@blackmanbeyond.bsky.social
My most liked posts have typos. My best posts don't get likes. I have a Ph D, you don't have to explain the two-party system to me.
Racial Capitalism
I been thinking about how the entire record industry is seemingly set up to make sure Black ppl aren't properly compensated for their artistic contributions. Like, more and more I feel like that's the entire purpose.
February 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Racial Capitalism
You just don't have the range. There is actual social science research that shows racial resentment as the best predictor for support for Trump. AKA evidence that suggests racism may be the central motivating factor in support. Do you get it now? Or you about to intentionally miss the point?
How is this helpful? Trump is openly racist and uses un-couched racism in his politics. Obviously yes. So how do you get from that, to the idea that racism is Trump's 'central motivating factor' - whatever that even means, exactly - and that whoever does not agree w/you should be shunned?
February 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
You just don't have the range. There is actual social science research that shows racial resentment as the best predictor for support for Trump. AKA evidence that suggests racism may be the central motivating factor in support. Do you get it now? Or you about to intentionally miss the point?
I'm going to make sheetpan steak nachos for the Super Bowl. I should post pics huh? I'm gonna post pics
February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I'm going to make sheetpan steak nachos for the Super Bowl. I should post pics huh? I'm gonna post pics
*sideeye*
Funny how many otherwise loud people manage to act completely unaware as to how problematic substack is
no disrespect, but I'm not subscribing to your Substack for reasons that should be obvious if you google words like "substack" and "nazis"
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
*sideeye*
Because those supporters view the working class as White. That allows DEI to be understood as something that then hurts the working class as socially constructed. And this view is bipartisan, Bernie Sanders often distinguishes between the working class and POC
I think framing the idea of diversity as a corporate intervention or co-opted campaign and not protections for workers from marginalized communities is absolutely by design and it’s odd to me so many people who are supposedly in support of the working class have adopted this framing.
Extremely fair point though it was perhaps a strategic error to let the idea of "diversity" become so totally co-opted by business in this way.
February 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Because those supporters view the working class as White. That allows DEI to be understood as something that then hurts the working class as socially constructed. And this view is bipartisan, Bernie Sanders often distinguishes between the working class and POC
Does anyone use video captioning software that doesn't suck? When Canvas says their captions are 85% accurate, they mean LITERALLY 85%
February 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Does anyone use video captioning software that doesn't suck? When Canvas says their captions are 85% accurate, they mean LITERALLY 85%
I just donated here and just want to encourage others to too if they can
There is no victory without Black Victory, there is no victory without Trans victory, there is no victory without Black Trans Victory.
Please, make me have to own up and cut my hair if you can take part and just boost if you dont have anything to give. It means more than you know.
Please, make me have to own up and cut my hair if you can take part and just boost if you dont have anything to give. It means more than you know.
I'm doing charity fundraising for National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition. We need to support both the Black community & the Trans community and I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I set a $2000 goal. If we hit the goal? I'm cutting my hair and donating the hair too.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I just donated here and just want to encourage others to too if they can
Reading this book during my MA program completely changed my understanding of borders and border enforcement as violence.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose …
www.goodreads.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Reading this book during my MA program completely changed my understanding of borders and border enforcement as violence.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
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AI is a tool of fascism. Full stop. It was created for the specific purpose of stealing the work of others, demoralizing artists, and eliminating middle class jobs to push creators out of art and into the lowest paying work. When you endorse AI slop, that’s what you’re endorsing.
February 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM
AI is a tool of fascism. Full stop. It was created for the specific purpose of stealing the work of others, demoralizing artists, and eliminating middle class jobs to push creators out of art and into the lowest paying work. When you endorse AI slop, that’s what you’re endorsing.
Until a larger percentage of White folks are willing to violate the #1 rule of American culture, "Don't knowingly offend White sensibilities", we are all just going to be stuck on this fucked up hamster wheel.
It always comes down to "But THAT would mean that my partner/uncle/boss/pastor is RACIST"
It always comes down to "But THAT would mean that my partner/uncle/boss/pastor is RACIST"
He's racist, we been knew that. That's what the conniptions over "woke" and "DEI" and immigrants and everything else has always been about.
You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership.
I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.
You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership.
I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.
February 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Until a larger percentage of White folks are willing to violate the #1 rule of American culture, "Don't knowingly offend White sensibilities", we are all just going to be stuck on this fucked up hamster wheel.
It always comes down to "But THAT would mean that my partner/uncle/boss/pastor is RACIST"
It always comes down to "But THAT would mean that my partner/uncle/boss/pastor is RACIST"
People need to really ask themselves why analysis that connects present conditions to the historical legacy of this country makes them so uncomfortable
February 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
People need to really ask themselves why analysis that connects present conditions to the historical legacy of this country makes them so uncomfortable
You're missing the point that "we've always been this way" is about us not caring what happens to "criminals". So the only way to stop this is to unpack our thirst for punishment/criminalization. Otherwise we are just debating about which groups end up being mistreated in these institutions.
And I get the carceral state of America is not a new issue, but I think when they’ve set aside an enormous amount of money to build concentration camps that seem to be worse than the worst prisons, I’m not sure “we’ve always been this way” is the most helpful way to motivate righteous outrage.
February 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
You're missing the point that "we've always been this way" is about us not caring what happens to "criminals". So the only way to stop this is to unpack our thirst for punishment/criminalization. Otherwise we are just debating about which groups end up being mistreated in these institutions.
All my homies support PBS
February 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
All my homies support PBS
Wait, you mean the most famous person to push birtherism might be a fan of anti-Black racism?!? Why didn't anyone say anything about this???
February 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Wait, you mean the most famous person to push birtherism might be a fan of anti-Black racism?!? Why didn't anyone say anything about this???
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Weren’t these the same people who wanted everyone fired who said anything disparaging about Charlie Kirk?
During the week after Pretti was killed by DHS, Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence.
Study: Fox News smeared Alex Pretti dozens of times following his killing by federal agents
On January 24, Customs and Border Protection agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minnesota intensive care nurse, during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In the week tha...
www.mediamatters.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Weren’t these the same people who wanted everyone fired who said anything disparaging about Charlie Kirk?
It's why so many students of color start in poli sci but end up as soc/ethnic studies majors
Just thinking again about all the white fools & gaslighters in political science who said widespread white supremacy wasn’t a thing any more, or refused to teach about it.
Don’t want to repost the image but G. Elliot links to this great piece from Jardina and Piston to help understand dehumanization and racism. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
It's why so many students of color start in poli sci but end up as soc/ethnic studies majors
Circling back here today for no reason in particular
I feel this but also I'm Black
Important perspective from Greenland.
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Circling back here today for no reason in particular
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Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
February 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
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the national voter ID push should be perceived in light of all this, btw
the Trump admin has spent the first week of Black History Month erasing public acknowledgments of slavery, whitewashing Medger Evers' murder, and posting the kind of vile imagery that would fit right in to the outro montage in Bamboozled
Trump shares video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in late-night Truth Social posting spree
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February 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
the national voter ID push should be perceived in light of all this, btw
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
If the Lakers lose Reaves this summer I will be heartbroken
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
If the Lakers lose Reaves this summer I will be heartbroken
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And I really don’t mean to upset people when I share this but it’s just a perfect example of the phenomenon, I’m sorry.
February 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
And I really don’t mean to upset people when I share this but it’s just a perfect example of the phenomenon, I’m sorry.
A negro like me will never let that shit go
And a lot of your favorite thinkers, writers, and leaders decided they didn’t have to care about Black people anymore because it was déclassé, we shouldn’t let that pass without comment.
February 6, 2026 at 12:17 AM
A negro like me will never let that shit go
So in other words people should have.... stayed woke. *sees self out*
A lot of the op-ed writers who influenced thought, votes, national media, culture wars & policy, snuffed out cultural movements like MeToo, Black Lives Matter, who gets taxed & who doesn’t, the list goes on… were just saying shit to cover their own tracks.
We got our asses completely handed to us.
We got our asses completely handed to us.
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
So in other words people should have.... stayed woke. *sees self out*
I'm still forming this thought. But basically everyone has "these" kind of guys. But like the Black versions of these guys get big on social media, maybe make it to Breakfast Club. But there's also a lot of pushback.
White people take the White versions of these guys, & put them in charge of shit
White people take the White versions of these guys, & put them in charge of shit
It's super, super weird that these guys have about the same influence on what discourse happens on Twitter any given day than Walker Cronkite had on the American viewing public.
February 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I'm still forming this thought. But basically everyone has "these" kind of guys. But like the Black versions of these guys get big on social media, maybe make it to Breakfast Club. But there's also a lot of pushback.
White people take the White versions of these guys, & put them in charge of shit
White people take the White versions of these guys, & put them in charge of shit