Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD

Africologist, Negra Soy 🇳🇮 🇯🇲, Africana Womanist, God & Ancestors, Imagining and Manifesting the Future I Want ❤️🖤💚✊🏾 #LetsGetFree

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

@_TARYNitUP right! I bet she is like “Why I gotta...okay, when is it!”

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

The Klan has always used religion to maintain legitimacy.

[I appreciate you. @DeeLaSheeArt]

Apparently, The New Yorker ran a story with an illustration of Wunmi Mosaku that was obviously not intended to represent her well, so I redid it real quick in a similar style. Took 15 minutes & a love of Black women ❤️

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

@DeeLaSheeArt @rrandolphjr Yes yes yes!!!

[Shefon N. Taylor @shefontaylor]

I have learned that the most important and radical thing you can be is a Black woman thinking about herself.

[💞 @lowkeyenergy_]

How do men grow up with single moms & don’t have respect for women

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

@OJPhilly @LiLiReynolds Surprise surprise! I just look like 🤢 Paper towel on door handle EVERYTIME!

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

And as a NYer living in Phillyyyyyy legggoooo! 😝💪🏾🙌🏾🍾

[Barstool Philly @BarstoolPhilly]

The Giants really let this guy join a division rival LMAOOOO

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

HAVE YOURSELF A PHILLY DEBUT, SAQUON 😤

He's the first Eagle to finish with 3 TDs in his team debut since Terrell Owens in 2004 🦅

[Barstool Philly @BarstoolPhilly]

Will watch this video at least 100 times

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

THIS!!! Also, what is the punishment for this crime?!? 👀☝🏾

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

@netflix How do you say triggered without pretending to be interested or hooked. Ill pass! ✌🏾

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

10. The real size of Africa.

Most people are shocked when they see the real size of Africa because the most commonly used map of the world, the Mercator projection, features a significantly distorted size of countries and continents.

[Johnetta Elzie @Nettaaaaaaaa]

“Delayed but not denied”

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

@HerMamasChild Yes! Gotta love lofts!!!

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

I am seeing people question whether Kamala Harris is “really Black.” I don’t think these people know the origins of judgements of who’s “really Black.” Let’s dive into history.

Beginning in the 15th century, human traders not only constructed what we now call Blackness—combining the different peoples of Africa into one race, one inferior race, worthy of enslavement. These human traders also judged who was “really Black“ based on whatever ethnic groups in West Africa they imagined made the best “slaves.” Different human traders from Portugal, France, Holland, and England expressed various ideas about who were “really Black,” meaning who made the best “slaves.”

Human traders created a hierarchy of peoples of African descent, what I call ethnic racist ideas in my work, where ethnic groups from regions like Senegambia were imagined to be superior (“slaves”) than ethnic groups from regions like Angola. These ethnic racist ideas contributed to different ethnic groups across West Africa being priced differently in the transatlantic human trade. So, originally, to be considered “really Black” was to be considered really servile.

By contrast, racist theorists constructed White people as the “free” race. These racist ideas became so widespread the anti-slavery resistance of biracial people were attributed to their “partial” Whiteness, including in books like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tim’s Cabin. Which is to say, both White enslavers and White abolitionists suggested biracial abolitionists, like Frederick Douglass, were not “really Black” because biracial people were not completely servile.

Today, these racist ideas of Black people as servile justifies Black people disproportionately still having to work in service jobs. When Black people become leaders and have the audacity to give direction, the attacks are regular and toxic and personal since racist ideas socialize people of all races, including Black people, to resist taking direction from Black leaders. Today, like two centuries ago, the servant, not the leader, is “really Black.”

Over the last few centuries, antiracist Black people have reconstructed Blackness by eradicating the “slave,” by decolonizing the mind, by making Blackness equal to Whiteness (and other racial identities), by making Blackness a global identity of solidarity, of cultural diversity, of resistance that includes biracial people who identify as Black. After these radical reconstructions of Blackness, it is easy to not know that human traders were the first group to judge who was “really Black.”

[Dr. Monica Cox @DrMonicaCox]

Hello to all the people who used to be bold, yet academia made you afraid.

May you find your voice again one day.

[Alonge O. Clarkson, PhD @G0DsTavy142]

@TheReclaimed 🤯🤯🤯 She aint saying nothing but the N word!

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

My fellow Black women:

Let’s talk self care.

We have a tough 3 months ahead of us where we’ll be attacked everyday. We know this.

Here are some tips to get ready:

[soulPhoodie @soulphoodie]

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands https://t.co/UvAZ6b00FD