I make $16hr packing boxes at the Amazon distribution center. I'll be damned if niggas that's flipping burgers make as much money as me doing skilled labor.
After graduating from XU, the department used to ask me to come back every year for orientation to speak with incoming sociology majors. Now I get to speak with them as their professor. Life is good.
Yesterday, I completed a task that took all of 6 min. In part due to anxiety and fear, I put the task off for THREE months. When I completed the task, all I could do is cry. Life has been whipping my ass but I am still here and I’m still moving forward.
Fining students, especially those who support themselves, should be criminal. The cost of school is a burden for many. Universities should not be adding to the weight. Universities can and should find better ways to encourage and deter particular behaviors without fining students
One of my students always call me Dr. White. One day, I reminded him that I hadn’t received my phd yet. He said, “I know, but you will. So I’m speaking it into existence for you.” AND that’s why there’s no place like home, Xavier University of Louisiana!
I truly love my career. I love being a professor at my beloved Xavier University of Louisiana. I love being a bridge..a stepping stone..a resource for my students, my fellow Xavierites.
It’s heartbreaking seeing Xavierites having to warn
#xula25
about predators on and around campus. I continually pray for y’all’s safety and stand with y’all in this fight against sexual violence.
Xavierites have a reason to be proud everyday, but today our hearts are beaming! Praise be to our foundress Saint Katharine Drexel and to all the (future) Xavierites who will benefit from this milestone.
Today, we are extremely excited to announce that we are in the planning stages of establishing a Graduate School of Health Sciences & Medical School!
#XULA
#XULAeXcellence
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The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) is reporting its first probable case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Louisiana.
The case involves an individual in Region 1, the Greater New Orleans area, who recently traveled within the United States.
A hard lesson that many freshman Xavierites has had to learn over the years is that Xavier is not their high school. Xavier is an elite university, even in the middle of a pandemic. While the the rigor and dedication taken to succeed at Xavier may be modified it will not diminish
I tell my students consistently that I am not concerned with grades. I am not concerned with keeping up a syllabus. As long as you are showing up to learn, my main focus is that you do just that. The rest will fall in place.
I know xavier wasn’t perfect when I attended but I hate that the current students hate it so much! I loved XU while I was there. It was truly a different world.
A student didn’t show up for a meeting that they scheduled. I made time in my schedule to accommodate and they didn’t show. I had to remind myself that we are in the middle of a panny and my students are all stressed out. I chose grace and understanding today.
I started crying during my lecture today as I discussed mass incarceration and the effects it has on the Black community. Part of me feels embarrassed but a greater part of me feels vulnerable and transparent.
I went out for drinks with some of my favorite students and we celebrated the end of the semester and of my journey at XU. We shared good stories, memories, laughs, and most importantly real love. My heart is full and I am beyond blessed and honored to have been their professor.
I talked to my dad for the first time since the super bowl and he was like where you been son. I told him I was going through some things and had to see myself through. He said and I quote, “As long as I am here, you will never have to see yourself through anything alone!”
Today makes 3 years that I’ve been working at XULA as a Sociology Professor. I am thankful for the opportunity to educate the next generation of revolutionaries.
White people (as a collective people and a system) believe that humanity is theirs to pass out and retract at their will and convenience. They believe they are the judges and gatekeepers of humanity.
Come take a class with your favorite XULA professor this Spring! I’ll be teaching Soc of Education, Race & Ethnic Reltions, and Intro to Soc. Also, check out the rest of our class listings! 💛🤍
My therapist told me, “Grinding that doesn’t include the whole, healthy self is chaos.” I needed that word, today. As the pressures of the 20 somethings, work, school, and lifestyle begin to overwhelm me. It is important to make sure we are taking care of ourselves.
A student wrote in a reflection paper, “this led me to believe that white people are literally the root of all evil” 😅phew they keep their FOOTS on these folks necks lol
As I’m on the job market, I sometimes worry that my “internet activism” might hinder me from landing a good job. Then I just continue to pray that I never find a job that muzzles me in to submission, silence, and cowardice.
Yesterday marked my 4 year anniversary at XULA. It’s been an honor and a pleasure to serve at my alma mater to help bring forward the next generation of servant leaders who strive to create a more just and humane society!
Students will really skip multiple classes, not turn in assignments, don’t try to do anything meaningful to help their grade during the semester, and still turn around and ask at the end of the semester “what can I do to pass your class.” Baby, nothing. Re-enroll next semester.
Im newly employed at my alma mater, have 3 streams of income, have about a yr left to get my PhD,a great man who reciprocates healthy love, and I’m surrounded by people who genuinely love me and have my best interests in mind. I’m blessed! My heart is full!
Covid update: keep on praying, my prayer warriors! I woke up in better shape than I was yesterday. Have a lot more upper mobility and less chest pain than yesterday. The vax, booster, and prayers are working double time!
Before the day is over, I want all my young scholars who are in the community to know that my office is always open and you can always find community with me. ✊🏾❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎✊🏾
After fighting with corona, unemployment, racism, family death, and a range of emotions, guess what I started working on again today: my dissertation prospectus. The road to a PhD isn’t always linear and definitely isn’t cute. Thankful for the support along the way though 💜✨
That acting like you don’t like somebody because you don’t wanna seem desperate or don’t wanna sweat somebody is dead. It could all be so simple. Wanna see em? Say that. Wanna link up? Say that. Wanna go on a date? Say that. Wanna fuck? Say that shit!
The way that I am about to forgo Tulane’s graduation so I can have my own individual graduation at my party though. Baby I EARNED tf out this degree and I ain’t sharing not a lick of the spotlight...especially with dusties
The “unprofessionalism” y’all swear is only at HBCUS is also at PWIs! At least with the HBCUs you get a little culture for your pain and suffering. The PWIs just leave you with micro aggression and gas lighting. 🤨
I went to Tulane today to handle some bidness, right. Tell me why these motherfuckers had me jumping through hoops, calling Black Jesus on the mainline, calling in favors from Olivia Pope, and crossing the Red Sea to get shit done.
All skin folk ain’t kin folk. And when those skin folk who ain’t kin folk get in hot water, I let their ass stay there and call on the folk they pandered to.
I’m currently grading quizzes from my Sociology of Gender and Black Masculinities classes. My students are engaging with complex ideas and are able to critique and apply many of them. They are so bright. My heart is full!
As I finish my last semester at XU, I pray that my emails are only filled with timely letter of recommendations and well wishes on my future endeavors. I bind emails requesting grade bumps and last minute attempts to save the semester and I move them to JUNK. Let me go in peace.
Covid update: chest pain is nearly nonexistent. I feel well. I am blessed. I feel almost like my “normal” self, whatever that means in a pandemic. Again, s/o to God, Pfizer, and my prayer warriors!
If you’re a praying person with good intentions for me, I ask that you join me in praying for two things over the next few months:
1) I graduate on time-May 2020
2) as I begin this job/postdoc search that God leads me clearly where God wants me and that I follow God’s will
I really don’t want to work for a living. Like I don’t want to have to have a job. Ya know. I don’t mind working. I enjoy the work I actually do now but I don’t want to have to do it to support myself. It’s ghetto. Beam me up Scotty!