Of Hesitance - W.E.B Du Bois [Josh Myers - Of Black Study] w/ Nathalie Frédéric Pierre

Africa World Now Project · Jul 5, 2023 · 1h 5m

"“We are surrounded. We who are in the academy, looking for community, like June Jordan and her students in 1969, are still surrounded. We have also made it inside the gate, but we are now cornered. This place, the university, is the destination, they said. We were told that we had to be inside or else. And now that we are here, they lie to us. Just as they lied to Jordan’s students. Just as they lied to the Black professors they hired when they demanded teachers less likely to lie. Just as they lied to the Black teachers who went to college in order to teach those Black professors long…