A black professor trapped in anti-racist hell

Vincent Lloyd writes at Compact:

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.

Like others on the left, I had been dismissive of criticisms of the current discourse on race in the United States. But now my thoughts turned to that moment in the 1970s when leftist organizations imploded, the need to match and raise the militancy of one’s comrades leading to a toxic culture filled with dogmatism and disillusion. How did this happen to a group of bright-eyed high school students?

Read the entire article. It shows how the zealots could fit in Pol Pot’s regime. Anyone not sufficiently committed to their ideology must be taught the error of their ways. No one is exempt, but even a black professor who specialises in racism. His crime was to not be pure enough.