Aboriginal scholarship: probably the best two works on “racism & the academy” today. Thankyou Thankyou @debbiebargallie @BronwynCarlson my colleagues I am posting below my brief response after reading both simultaneously over this week as to honor and engage your work

1.Drs Carlson & Bargallie are right about the problem of the 21st century knowledge production. The knowledge production academy chooses whose ontoepistemic knowledge is valid and whose is excluded.

2.They are right the color line divides us still. Most visible evidence low mob employment. More insidious is the constant erasure of our black decolonising theories from public policy arena.

3. At the center of these debates- The academy makes choices on including us without us. Cultural competency is preferred leaving untouched & in place bias curricula, majority favored pedagogies,structural barriers to a diverse work place, hegemony of western theory as normative

4. @BronwynCarlson @debbiebargallie are right this debate miss an important reality: dismissing our reason our intellectual identities and our knowledge production by Indigenist scholars are much more a function of their unequal access to structural and epistemic democracy.

5. @BronwynCarlson @debbiebargallie and works of @BronFredericks @QAmity @drcbond are right This knowledge production problem& its complexity cannot be fixed by simple cultural competency training Or its performativity. Thankyou drs Carlson, Bond Bargallie, MRobinson, Fredericks