Students at ‘Anti-Black Oppression’ Seminar Stage Mutiny Against ‘Racist’ Black Professor

Vincent Lloyd, Villanova’s professor of Africana Studies, writes that they had learned in one of their workshops that objective facts were a tool for white supremacy.

What happened?Vincent Lloyd is Professor of Africana Studies at Villanova University. He is also the author of Break Every Yoke: Justice, Religion, and the Abolition PrisonsAn article by. essay Learn more about his experiences as “a black professor trapped in anti-racist hell.”

• In the summer of 2022, Lloyd attempted to conduct a six-week seminar for gifted high-school students titled, “Race and the Limits of Law in America,” For the prestigious Telluride Association. The event would last four weeks. “anti-black racism,” The other two are focusing on “anti-immigrant and anti-indigenous racism.”

• Lloyd describes his anti-racist credentials as follows: “I am a black professor, I directed my university’s black-studies program, I lead anti-racism and transformative-justice workshops, and I have published books on anti-black racism and prison abolition. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelphia, my daughter went to an Afrocentric school, and I am on the board of our local black cultural organization.”

• The racially diverse group of 12 students lived together and practiced “democratic self-governance” During the seminar, participants will be able to make and follow their own rules.

• The seminar was hijacked by a young woman he refers to as “Keisha”—a recent Ivy League grad “mentored by a television-celebrity black intellectual”—who was tasked with leading “anti-racism workshops” In the afternoons. Lloyd described how students were made into anti-racism. “cult” Keisha is its leader.

• When an Asian-American student stated a fact—almost 60 percent of federal inmates are white—during a discussion about incarceration, the group subsequently voted to expel that student. “The black students said they were harmed,” Lloyd writes. “They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy.”

• Another Asian-American student was also expelled for reasons Keisha refused to share with Lloyd.

• Lloyd writes: “[A]fter a week focused on the horrific violence, death, and dispossession inflicted on Native Americans, Keisha reported to me that the black students and their allies were harmed because we hadn’t focused sufficiently on anti-blackness.”

• Four weeks into the seminar, Keisha and the remaining students staged an intervention. They accused Lloyd, however, of using “racist language,” Brittney Griner misgendering, confusing the names