Well, the person who got it, Zalika Iba Orimi, the professor hired for the job, lists black porn and black sexual logics among her areas of expertise. Oh, there you go. Okay, there you go. Mellon has bankrolled many professors notorious for their activism. At the Socialism 2025 conference, Assistant Professor Iman Abdel Hadi referred to her employer, the University of Chicago, as evil and a colonial landlord. (20:51–20:55)
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