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theorizin' on the cheap since '09. for more about me, go here. e-mail: lowendtheory [at sign] lowendtheory [dot] org.

Before someone asks me about this Cornel West-Melissa Harris-Perry Beef

Two thoughts, in the slenderest form I can muster.

First: I can only pray that someday, the stakes of public beefs between card-carrying members of the Negroscenti will have less to do with the struggle of who gets to land the television contracts, speaking gigs, etc., in which she or he can position her or himself expertly as The Highly Celebrated Explainer of Black People to Audiences Primarily Populated By Non-Black People, and much much more to do with actual substantive contestation over, like, ideas and agendas and strategies with the communities they ostensibly expertly represent. 

Second: I think we need to see both of their (and Tavis’s, and Michael Eric Dyson’s, and the list goes on) tax returns this year.  We need to know just how lucrative the industry of representing black folk is: that should be the absolute lowest common denominator of accountability for folks who get to take up public discursive space that could—and um, really should—be easily repurposed for other means.

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    cornel has a lot of truth and clarity to offer this world, but i’ve heard him reinforce sexism in the same breath that...
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    well, there’s that.
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    shots have been fired. and…i must agree lol
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    Bold is mine. That. Right. There.
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