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Education is Elevation
by The Conscious Lee
Education is Elevation. Stats. Facts. History. theconsciouslee.substack.com
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Anywhere There Was Slavery Is East Texas: The Freedom Colonies They Erased From Your Map
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Freedom Colonies, the Other Million, and the State That Keeps Telling Us What We Saw Education Is Elevation, y’all. This conversation went live on…
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Oct. 7th, Friday Night Lights, Oil Field Money, and the Bombs Over Gaza: It Was Always One Ledger
How much money do you need to blow up a 12 year old in Gaza? How much funding do you need to blow up a pregnant woman in the West Bank? How much? How much do you need? Today is October 7th, 2026, the third anniversary of the attack on Israel, and I know a bunch of Zionists are pissed off when…
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Found Responsible for Rape, Back on the Field: LSU Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
Trigger warning for everybody that has experienced sexual violence. We talking about sexual violence for educational purposes only, and I need y’all to take care of yourselves while you read this. The Group Chat Is the Confession Have y’all heard the news? CBS News New York obtained more messages...
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Auburn Gets $436 Million. Tuskegee Gets $15 Million. Let's Do the Math
Thank you Nora Lyn St. Clair, PJ Schuster, Jen Champion, Heather A Murphy, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Huey P. Newton said power is the ability to define phenomena and make them act in a desired manner, and I told the students at...
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Amy Cooper Called 911 and Got Served. Sonya Massey Called 911 and Got Shot.
A little old white lady clutched her purse when a Black man stepped onto the elevator, and in that one second she did more sociology than most PhD programs do in a whole decade, because she wrote his entire life off his skin, wrote the beginning, wrote the ending, and convicted him before the…
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They Killed Reading Rainbow on Purpose, Now They Want One More Chance
Thank you Dear Masculinity, Cee Cee@611974, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. To all my parents out there, if your kid is asking you for one more chance, what has transpired before they asked you that? They did something bad. They did...
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What Is the Legal Right Way to Be a War Criminal? | The Chop Up Show
Thank you Lynette, Laurel Fairchild, Jen Champion, Leanna, FREEFREEPALESTINE🇵🇸, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. I came in hot on Nolan Wells, and I’m not apologizing for it. On Monday, September 21, 2026, Jackson County District Attorney...
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Deleted Texts, Missing Keys, Bruised Skull, "Consistent With Drowning": What the Grand Jury Skipped
Christine Wonsley posted on Sunday, September 20. All she wanted for her birthday was to hug her son and hear his jokes. That Wednesday before, Nolan would have turned 19. Monday night the Jackson County District Attorney’s office released the grand jury report, and the report told her, in…
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Every Opening Act Quit Ed Sheeran's Tour. Macy Gray Defended the Man Who Made Them.
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Macy Gray, respectfully, you are wrong as two left shoes for the comments you left under my post concerning the Ed Sheeran tour. Now as a Southern man...
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Why White People's Humanity Is "Just Humanity" But Yours Is "Politics" (The Sheeran Receipts)
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. So white people’s lives are seen as being just inherently careful, full of care, deserving of care, while everybody else’s is political? You can’t take…
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Peter Thiel Was Asked If Humans Should Survive. He Hesitated. Here's Why Fat Joe Matters.
Thank you Mandy Ohman, Karmic 🌹, Paul k, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Now I told y’all on air, I’m over the Fat Joe conversation. I’m tired of it. We done had the Cardi conversation, we done had the Pariki equals Black conversation, we...
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A German Philosopher Explains Why Homophobes Act Like That
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. His shirt says Republicans, racist, but secretly gay. Democrats, gay, but secretly racist. And though I believe this meme is a little clever, a little...
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Texas Won't Feed Kids in July But a Court Says You Can Keep AI Child Abuse Files at Home
Thank you Lamisa Wellness Collective, Jolie, BethAlli Acorn 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇸🦩, Cheryl D, Judy, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. WHATEVER TO KEEP THE UNION INTACT Some scholars would call this American exceptionalism. I call it being lost in…
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"Pattern Recognition" Is Just Racism With a Spreadsheet | Loomer, the EEOC, and the Ledger They Burned
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 5 Key Takeaways * “Pattern recognition” is an 1896 technology, not a 2026 one. Frederick Hoffman’s Race Traits and Tendencies used post 1890 census data to turn the effects of racist law into a “fact”...
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The Confederates Wrote a Whole Book Called "Cotton Is King." Jeff Mead Should Read It.
“African Americans built this nation. You built this nation. You know, you’re just starting to get real credit for that. We all built it. But you were such a massive part of it, bigger than you were given credit for. Does that make sense?” That’s what his lord and savior Dukie Donald said. That…
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The U.S. Is the ONLY Country That Never Ratified the Rights of the Child. Here's the List.
Thank you Samantha Paige (she/they), zink, Darnell Martin, Rebel Guest, Dmg, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Brother Malcolm Told Us Where the Courtroom Was Before I get into what happened in Switzerland I need to pay a debt, because this...
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14,000 Small Businesses Became Criminals Overnight. This Is What "Pro Business" Means.
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’m going to be telling y’all about the intricacies of policymaking and how politics is nothing but who gets what, when, where, and how. That definition...
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The Psychosis of Whiteness: Dr. Kehinde Andrews Explains
We are looking right at a cultural phenomenon that refuses to name itself, and that avoidance is precisely where the pathology lives. When you trace how dominant power structures operate across generations, you realize that the refusal to confront historical reality is not an accidental…
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The Sandinista Revolution Just Exposed Your Socialist Fantasy
I want to start with the sentence I said on that stage, because it is the whole argument and I said it almost by accident. I said there are certain communities that is always already viewed as being classless. Sit with that. Not poor. Not working class. Not lumpen. Classless. Outside the ledger...
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Switzerland Had No Colonies. That Is Exactly Why It Got Rich Off Slavery.
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Switzerland’s Neutrality Was a Front for Colonial Violence and I Have the Receipts Switzerland is famous for neutrality, chocolate, banks, but behind…
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bell hooks Warned Y'all About Liberalism and Nobody Listened
Now, bell hooks was a sharp, consistent critic of liberalism, and she was that critic for forty years, across nearly forty books, from Ain’t I a Woman in 1981 all the way to the last essays she published in Berea, Kentucky, before she died in December of 2021. She argued that its core principles...
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Y'all Keep Saying "We The Real Indians." A Jamaican Professor Just Gave You a Better Argument.
Thank you Mandy Ohman, OnyxRose💛🤍💜🖤🏳️⚧️, Mary Elizabeth, KATIE FULLER, PhD, Aimee Chamernik, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Every time I put out a video about indigeneity, my comment section fill up with the same energy. All of my...
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Justice Sensitivity in ADHD: The Hidden Burden No One Talks About
The Weight of Unfairness: Understanding ADHD Justice Sensitivity Through a Critical Lens ADHD is correlated with justice sensitivity. We have a hard time getting over something being unjust. We feel things strongly. We have a hard time with emotional regulation. We also absorb information like a...
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Your Water, Their Server: Inside Oklahoma's $50 Billion Data Center Fight
The way we talk about data and technology as being an open frontier is still justifying abstraction of Native humanity and Native land the same way it did when it was an actual idea of a land frontier. And in most instances, there is no such thing. It is always a myth. The frontier was never a...
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The Pedagogy of Resistance: Why Black Floridians Must Connect Foreign Policy to the Schoolhouse Doo
Thank you EasyEdB, Suzie’s World, Kathryn Marsh, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. I was sitting down with Angie Nixon, who is running for the United States Senate from the great state of Florida, and I started the conversation by doing two...
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Men, Rejection, and the Cost of Emotional Unavailability
Thank you PJ Schuster, Digital Product Diaries, Tamibetcha, Freya Moon, Darnell Martin, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 8 Key Takeaways * Men Are Often Trained to Suppress Emotions - Many men learn early that expressing emotions beyond…
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What Project 2025 Actually Says About Your Flight and Why it Matters Now
THE QUALIFICATION WAS ALWAYS A VALVE The government is hiring gamers to run the sky. Not metaphorically. Not as a recruitment gimmick that some intern cooked up and nobody approved. The Department of Transportation put out an ad on April 10, 2026 that opens on an Xbox logo, cuts into Twitch…
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Tuskegee Banned Bonnets and Texas Banned THC in the Same Week. That Is One Story, Not Two.
Thank you Sara Willard, sandy walling, Sherell, Gretchen Lawyer, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. It’s Wednesday morning and I got three headlines open on the same screen. Texas is putting a whole industry on a Schedule I list next to…
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Same Old Sh*t In a New Toilet: What Tennessee Teaches You About the Paperwork
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Black people in Tennessee have a unique story, and I mean that in the technical sense, not the greeting card sense. Before I get into the analysis, let…
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The Cake Was Legal. The Threat to Defund a University Was Not.
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What Actually Happened, Because the Headline Lied to Me Too The Lindsey Graham cake drama I thought was about some random professor at Indiana…
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DEI Rollbacks Might Be a Breach of Fiduciary Duty (The Receipts)
According to the “As You Sow” report, a company that eliminates or substantially reduces its management diversity programs in response to political pressure, rather than financial analysis, is making a decision motivated by nonfinancial considerations. Think about how wild it is to publicly...
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"I'm Not Racist, My Partner Is Half Indian": Every Receipt Elon Hoped You'd Never Read
Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of The Economist, sat across from the richest man on this planet at a Texas Gigafactory and asked him something plain. People say that you’re a racist. What is the motivation for doing that? And the man did not say no. The man did not say here is my record,...
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Slave to Soldier to Landowner: The Sergeant Buried Outside the Wall at Stones River
Right now I’m standing on the largest earthen fortress in the United States, and it’s located here in the great state of Tennessee, about thirty five miles down the road from where a thousand mile walk to Memphis begins. It’s a part of Black history that has everything to do with the Civil War....
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She Might Actually Beat Greg Abbott. So I Asked Her What Nobody Else Will
“Right now, education is trash.” That was the first thing out my mouth when I sat down with Gina Hinojosa, no warmup, no small talk, jumping right into it, because when your state is sitting at the bottom of the country in what it spends on a child and the top of the country in what it spends on…
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He Escaped Slavery and CROSSED the Mississippi River For His Wife | The Shankleville Story
Thank you Hilleary Z., Jill Branton, Alexis Godfrey, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Education Is Elevation. Today I got a nice, intentional conversation with y’all about Texas freedmen colonies, about the over 500 places where Black…
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They Don't Praise Dead Gang Members, So Why Are We Praising Lindsey Graham?
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Now y’all already knew I was not gonna let this one slide. Lindsey Graham passed away Saturday night, July 11, 2026, at 71 years old, from an aortic...
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Necropolitics: The Two Words That Explain Why America Lets You Die
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Two words that ruin your day: necro-politics. Stick around, because I’m about to prove to you that the United States don’t just manage life, they...
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A 12 Year Old Black Girl Got So Rich They Tried to Make Her LEGALLY WHITE
This year marked the sixth annual Juneteenth on the East, our first time at the Zoo Amphitheater in Oklahoma City, Lupe Fiasco headlining, me cohosting once again with my folks Mandii B, my son Zane taking up space on that stage like the stage was built for him. On the surface, that’s a festival...
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What If Racial Terror Is Hereditary Too? The Epigenetics Question Nobody Wants to Ask
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Communal trauma. Y’all, let’s name it. It is a shared psychological and emotional wound experienced by an entire group of people, not just isolated...
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George Washington Bought Human Teeth. Obama Calls Him Great. I Got Questions.
Y’all know I watch these interviews so you don’t have to. On June 28, 2026, Barack Obama sat down with Michele Norris on MS NOW for a special tied to the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, ten days after the ribbon got cut in John Lewis Plaza, six days before this country...
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White or Black, Pick One: The Court Cases That Built the Latino Whiteness Pipeline
Thank you Reda Rountree (she/her), Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, Jeanne Elbe, Judy, Dmg, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This week I sat down with somebody I spent years trying to beat: Brian Ontiveros-Kersch, UNT to my OU,...
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The 14th Amendment Was Built for the Freed Slaves, Not Ellis Island
The clip went something like this: every American who is a natural-born U.S. citizen is only a couple generations removed from somebody who wasn’t, go back far enough and every single American is the child of a migrant, this is literally the United States of America, so trying to end birthright...
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The First Drag Queen in America Was Born Enslaved — And They're Trying to Erase Him
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The first person to ever call himself the Queen of Drag in the United States was not a reality TV star or an algorithm’s invention. His name was William...
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They Banned This Pig Drug in 160 Countries. America Said “Pass the Bacon.”
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Bacon, sausage, ham, and hot dogs — the World Health Organization, the most authoritative health body on the planet, classifies all of them in the same...
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Juneteenth Proves Black Folks Never Been Free in America For Real
Thank you Mandy Bynum, PJ Schuster, Nick G, A Dude On The Couch, Kerry Shaw, KarenC-Book Collector📚⚖️🗽🗳️🧿♒️, and many others for tuning into my live video with Feel Good Action! Join me for my next live video in the app. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and...
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The American Lawn Is a Colonial Project: Grass, the Dream, and Ecological Collapse
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Most Honest Acre in America The lawn looks like nothing. That’s the point. A flat green silence out front, mowed to the same height as the…
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AT&T Promised Us $10 Million — Then Sold Us Out for a Billion
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Yesterday I was standing in front of AT&T headquarters in Dallas, 10,000 signatures in my hand, asking one company to reinstate the very initiatives…
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Quare vs. Queer Theory: What E. Patrick Johnson’s Grandmother Knew That the Academy Forgot
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. How E. Patrick Johnson took the most celebrated theory of identity in the academy and asked it the one question it kept refusing to answer — whose body...
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Two Black Children, Two Verdicts, One Lesson — Breaking Down Karmelo Anthony & Cyrus Carmack-Belton
Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. When I was in college, sitting in a philosophy class before I had the vocabulary of Mills and Wilderson and Hartman to lay over it, I learned the one...
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