Inye Wokoma

I make media that i hope makes a difference in the world.

[Inye Wokoma @InyeWokoma]

That moment when your reparations check is $55.72 and the U.S. Department of Treasury charges you $67.20 to cash it. #TrumpCheck

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That moment when your reparations check is $55.72 and the U.S. Department of Treasury charges you $67.20 to cash it. #TrumpCheck https://t.co/uZbgGdeOeQ

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@yerbasuena allowing for acknowledgement of pov and bias while balancing this with a mandate to give authority to another's pov/experience

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@yerbasuena IMO objectivity as a premise is fatally flawed. Empathy, compassion, humility, equanimity are more sound values.

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@yerbasuena those who administer policy, yield policy authority will always insert pov and bias. judges, police, social workers, etc.

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@yerbasuena consensus in policy making is still position making. it will have a pov.

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@yerbasuena institutions are made up of people with POV and bias. Policies reflect the bias (individual and group) of the policy makers.

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@yerbasuena No.

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@yerbasuena kinda like saying "I can understand anything from anyone because I don't have a particular place, i am universal"......false!

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@yerbasuena kinda like intellectual 'super-positioning' to pull a phrase from quantum theory.

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@yerbasuena objectivity erases the question: what are the limits of my ability to truly understand what I am about to learn (information)?

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@yerbasuena it allows for something you may not know but inflates your ability to implicitly understand interpret new knowledge.

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@yerbasuena the notion of objectivity undercuts the process of self-doubt. it absolves journos of responsibility for implicit POV & bias.

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@yerbasuena just look at foundations of objectivity in journalism. who practiced it when where how. what social/economic order did it uphold

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@zwickelicious that is my point. real interaction reveals what you don't know. true communication is =parts inquiry & statement #Talkthearts

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@eyesonthestorm Objectivity is the ultimate hubris of white male intellectual superiority. Always was a myth. We all have a POV #Talkthearts

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8.This is endemic in writing about artist of color, IMO. #Talkthearts

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7.But ultimately reveals its own limitations when confronted with informed discourse. #Talkthearts

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6.Generally white-centered thinking eclipses cultural and social inquiry. Positions self as authority. #Talkthearts