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Dr. Stacey Patton

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Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, historian, child advocate, and college professor.

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 23h

Barack Obama’s got online and wrote an obituary for accountability. But take his words apart, every line, euphemism, and little moral magic trick, and you’ll see just how empire sounds when it’s pretending to have a conscience. And you’ll never be able to unsee it. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

The Elegance of Empire: How Barack Obama's Statement Turned Gaza’s Blood into Poetry

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Everyone,

Clarification about tonight's FREE event. The time is 6:30-7:30 pm PST and 9:30-10:30 pm PST.

You can register for FREE using the link below:

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Hope to see you there.

Your Brain Has Been Hacked: Rethinking Attention, Tech, and the Crisis of Digital Overload

Registration is required. Sign up below to receive the Zoom information on the morning of the event. Digital addiction is quietly reshaping student behavior, attention, and...

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning. Sometimes you write yourself into clarity. When you grow up having to earn love, you start calling crumbs a meal. And at some point in your life, you've got to push the plate away.

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The Twisted Emotional Economy of Being Loved for What You Can Give, Not Who You Are.

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 2d

"I will not hit my child. I will love my child like a REVOLT."

These words ought to be a terrible promise to white supremacy, which requires the degradation of children to sustain itself. A system that trains children to obey, fear and internalize hierarchy before they can even speak its language.

Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 3d

While we’re celebrating homecoming, a MAGA-branded tour is plotting to show up at HBCUs claiming it’s about dialogue.

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Coons for Content: Black MAGA Plan to Invade HBCU Homecomings

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 3d

Soooo, did y’all see the news story about the white tourists who went on a safari in Botswana and almost got stomped to death by a Black Mama Elephant?

What followed was mud, mayhem, and one tourist almost getting stomped to death into the Okavango.

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Some White Folks Got Jumped By An Elephant in Africa

Somewhere deeeep in Botswana, at the intersection of colonial fantasy and common sense, a group of white tourists decided to paddle their little canoes straight through the living room of a six-ton Bl...

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 4d

Let me ask y’all somethin’… what kind of country takes polls about genocide?

They’re turning slaughter into a metric. Suffering into data. Atrocity into analysis.

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What Does It Mean to Poll a Genocide?

How American media outlets turn mass murder into metric while Gazans die.

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 5d

This lecture exposes capitalism’s true origin story, not as an engine of progress, but as a system born from Europe’s trauma and perfected through American brutality.

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Lecture 13 is LIVE: From Sweatshops to Slave Ships: Capitalism’s First Draft Was Blood-Soaked

This lecture explores the roots of American capitalism and shows you what’s underneath.

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 5d

Here is my Sunday sermon. What we’re witnessing isn’t just a shutdown of government offices, it’s a shutdown of conscience.

This sermon is a call to the living, to those who refuse to die quietly in a nation addicted to death.

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When the Government Chooses Death

A Sunday Sermon on White Supremacy, Greed, and the Sin of the Shutdown

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 6d

Two predators. Two verdicts. Same day.

Diddy gets 4 years. Trump’s former spiritual advisor, Robert Morris, gets 6 months for sexually abusing a 12-year-old for years.

Both are monsters. But only one gets mercy, prayers, and a redemption arc.

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The White Christian Megapastor Who Got Six Months for Child Sexual Abuse the Same Day Diddy Got Four Years

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 7d

Troops stormed Chicago’s South Shore apartments. DHS says they arrested “37 gang members.” But there’s no list of names, charges, proof. This raid wasn’t about gangs or an immigration sweep. It was about turning fear into profit. Militarize. Dispossess. Gentrify.

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Trump’s Chicago ICE Raid: A Real Estate Blueprint To Militarize, Dispossess, Gentrify?

What if the early morning raid on Chicago’s South Shore apartments wasn’t really about crime or an immigration sweep at all?

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 7d

What happened at Quantico earlier this week wasn’t military strategy. It was a racial war game.

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Trump And Hegseth’s Quantico Meeting Was A Loyalty Test For A White Man’s Army

I’ll say what the press won’t: what happened at Quantico wasn’t military strategy.

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 8d

“Say it to my face!” 👀

We all know what that means in Black communities. It’s a dare and a line in the sand. That’s why folks cheered when Hakeem Jeffries threw it at Trump after that racist AI video.

But what happens if Trump actually does?

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“Say It to My Face!” Why Democrats Keep Losing While Fascists Keep Winning

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for your kind support, love.

Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 9d

The headlines are stuck on the “fat generals” insult. Don’t be fooled. What happened yesterday was the rehearsal of the Fourth Reich.

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The Fourth Reich Has Arrived

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 12d

Today’s sermon is about Assata Olugbala Shakur.

White America calls her a fugitive. We call her free. White America calls her terrorist. We call her a prophet.

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Pharaoh Couldn’t Hold Her: Assata Shakur and the Gospel of Liberation

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 14d

What does it mean to teach Gen Z how to see?
In a world drowning in selfies and distraction, I challenged my journalism students to turn the camera outward, to frame, to compose, to witness.
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On Teaching Gen Z Journalism Students How to "See" In a World That Rewards Selfies But Punishes Witnessing

Teaching Gen Z How to See

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 14d

Here is my latest podcast episode for NewsOne. newsone.com/videos/covfe...

Covfefe Chronicles | Ep. 10 - Why Trump’s Tylenol Panic Is About Whiteness, Not Health

Donald Trump recently said Tylenol causes autism when taken by pregnant women, a declaration that has been debunked by medical experts.

Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 14d

She died FREE. She belongs to the ancestors now. She is ETERNAL.
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RIP, Assata Shakur. She passed away yesterday in Havana, Cuba. She died free! The U.S. government, after decades of pursuit, never got the satisfaction of putting her in a cage. They wanted her bound...

Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for sharing, love, and for your support. Really appreciate you.

Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 15d

First they cried. Then they canonized him. Then came the tattoos. Now MAGA wants to put Charlie Kirk on a U.S. coin.
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Republicans Want to Add Charlie Kirk to America’s Racist Pocket Change

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 15d

Here’s a little chuckle before y’all go to bed. I got my hands on the classified memo from inside the UN, and it confirms what we all suspected: the escalator and teleprompter didn’t break on Trump. They quit!
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Leaked Internal Report: Trump UN Escalator & Teleprompter Catastrophe, September 2025

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 18d

Laura Loomer called Jasmine Crockett a “ghetto Black bitch.” But when you line up their lives, it’s clear who really fits that label, and it ain’t the congresswoman writing laws. 👀

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Laura Loomer vs. Jasmine Crockett: Who's Really the "Ghetto Bitch?"

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 21d

Megyn Kelly is spiraling, Charlie Kirk is a martyr in her head, and somehow Barack Obama is to blame for both. Come go to therapy this evening and watch a racist white woman’s fragility get an exam.
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Megyn Kelly on the Couch: A Shrink Explains Why Obama Still Lives Rent-Free in Her Head

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Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social · 22d

Dirty old judge. Same old America.

The Charleston magistrate who called Dylann Roof’s family “victims” just got busted on child exploitation charges.

They always tell on themselves. Always.

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Dirty Old Judge Who Coddled Dylann Roof’s Family Now Busted On Child Porn Chargers

Case reveals a pattern of powerful white males being racist in public and deviant in private.

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