I don't know if there should even be black studies.

I don't know if Black History Month should exist.

I see identity politics where my blackness becomes the main thing about my political life, becoming identity pedagogy.

Now we have to teach in virtue of the identity of the person to whom we're teaching.

We have to take their lived experience on board, it structures how they encounter the intellectual enterprise and then the identity pedagogy somehow transmuted into identity epistemology.

Now there will be a way of knowing that is determined and embedded in the historical variants of domination, a way of knowing a truth.

It's not just narrow.

It's wrongheaded.

It's small-minded.

It's a power move.

It's ironic because the whole thing is supposed to be about race, power, and privilege.

It's a weapon of the weak.

It's a kind of a power move.

What it does to those who are on the butt end of it, presumptively anti-black racist.

I'll stop.

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