LJ Randolph Jr

Language Education professor dedicated to justice, abolition & liberation | 2024 ACTFL President | Past President of FLANC & AATSP-NC | Views = mine | He/Any

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@marclamonthill As much as I love C and D, based solely on play rotation I’d have to go with A

[KEY @67ATEE]

No because why are you black in Wisconsin….

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@monty_avo Outside 💯

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@GroovyBruce What a great memory! 23 years later, and I’m still trying to “stay groovy” 😎

[Dr. Monica Cox @DrMonicaCox]

Using marginalized people to recruit other marginalized people & discarding them because they expect diversity, equity, & inclusion to be a real focus in an organization is a form of academic exploitation.

Marginalized people are more than optics, checklists, & convenience.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

Required reading. My god.

[@DrBritWilliams on 🦋sky @DrBritWilliams]

I don’t want to scare yall, but this is basically every US college right now. Across the board. Even the so called liberal states. We are expendable. And that’s the story.

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@aagrooms 🥳 🖤

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@VictoriaTheTech 🫠

[Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 @JeanJacquesDes7]

They once tried to ban bachata for being ‘too Black, too poor’ in the Dominican Republic, until a whitepassing musician made it popular in the 1980s. Now it fills stadiums worldwide 🌎🎶

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[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

Policies like this are so unnecessary and only serve to promote broader ideologies rooted in discrimination, racism, colonialism, and xenophobia. Friends, please continue to support multilingualism and stand up against all forms of linguistic oppression in your words & actions🖤

[Scott Turner @SecretaryTurner]

HUD is ENGLISH only.

Before: After:

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

—Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico?
Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico.

—To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery.

—Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento.

—Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

I miss late-night coffee shops. They used to be so abundant (especially in college towns). Now you might find one or two that are still hanging on.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

What never came back after the pandemic?

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@UjuAnya I’m so glad this showed up in my timeline. Brought an immediate smile to my face. 😃 Happy birthday to you. What a wonderful time!

[ACTFL @actfl]

Today at the ABLE Institute: ACTFL's Immediate Past President, LJ Randolph, joined students, DCPS world language educators, DC’s WL Supervisor, and Gregory Jones, retired WL Supervisor from Fairfax County, for a powerful day of language learning in action! @LangConnectsFdn

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants https://t.co/2cKNnWYxnM

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@big_business_ It’s like that ice-breaker where people ask “if you could give an unrehearsed lecture on any subject, what would it be?”

https://t.co/we1RTrH4n7

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Hunter Biden passionately breaking down the difference between crack vs cocaine felt like Ryan Coogler talking about the film formats he uses to shoot his films.

[Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco]

Para mí, preparar una hora de clase me toma de 4 a 6 horas de trabajo. Una sesión de 3 horas implica 12-16 horas de preparación. Un curso de 15 horas como mínimo tiene 60-90 horas de trabajo detrás.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Sure thing: Rural hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid payments, because most people in rural areas do not have much money, so the uninsured population is higher; also, the population densities are lower, so fewer people to support the hospital.

But thanks to Medicaid expansion (the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), those uninsured people were able to get coverage, which allowed rural hospitals to recover costs for care. Otherwise, they just eat the costs.

North Carolina lost 11 rural hospitals across the state in the 2010s, because Republicans refused to expand Medicaid. It was (and is) a disaster. If the GOP kills Medicaid expansion now, as the OBBB budget does, a major financial pillar for those hospitals disappears again.

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

@MattLaoshi