Chris Marshall

I feel like a non-religious, a non-spiritual ancestral responsibility to push myself intellectually and to have the ability to educate my son. But the ability to teach any of my people who are willing to learn.

I want Black people to remember and understand that you should never feel guilty for what you don't know. It hasn't been that long that its even been legal for us to read. Continue down the path of knowledge and look for the truth.

We all have things we struggle with and that space between uninformed and informed is often where you develop the endurance to be a great scholar and great researcher. I'll only criticize you, if you quit because of a mistake. Mistakes usually are the reason you become a great writer, thinker, and researcher.

Research and learning in general is messy, genuinely appreciate the process.

What happens when the credible sources deliberately ignore the evidence to repeat a profitable lie to secure funding? Verifying the sources has to go beyond appealing to authority when that authority is driven by profit margins.

Its one thing to be dismissive and gaslight legitimate criticisms by labeling them as conspiracy theories. But what happens when you simply can't verify nor validate the evidence?

This isnt some call to action to expose certain institutions but its more about recognizing you aren't crazy. If a lie is what it requires to keep your job or if it guarantees opportunities to improve your quality of life. Intellectual integrity falls by the waist side in the face of individual advancement and personal interests.

Hazing in Black Fraternities makes me sick. There are so many healthy ways to develop young Black men without risking their lives for the sake social capital in college.

If I wanted to push and challenge Black men there are so many fun and challenging intellectual and athletic competitions, that don't put anyone's life in danger.

You wanna test a man's fortitude, make him think, make him solve a multi-step problem, without getting angry and asking for help.

Lol you know how easy it is to make an American violent by asking them to do very basic intellectual work, it's by far the funniest and most predictable rage bait.

Make it a point to have healthy intellectual dialogue. Disagreement doesn't have to be rooted in insults and character assassination.

Everything is an idea, and no idea is above criticism. We often virtue signal over being humble, having humility, but it does it ever occur to you that being close-minded to new ideas is arrogant and narcissistic.

Being unaware, not knowing a particular topic or subject isn't the issue, but attacking someone who is learning is treasonous. Sometimes we debate and go back and forth over an idea to understand it better. Not to destroy one another.

Learning something new should be fun, it should be exciting, just because I know more than you, doesn't mean I use what I know to tear you down. What it means is I can encourage you because I remember what it felt like to be self-conscious learning something new.

Be patient, explore your mistakes, assess where you went wrong and work on becoming better.

Making mistakes in research in pursuit of the objective truth is the journey you have to embrace. If somebody tries to make you feel ashamed for getting something wrong along that journey its their problem not yours.

Research is an adventure, have fun with it, and strive to be your absolute best and the absolute best.

The very thing someone is trying to humiliate you for getting something wrong is the very place you need to be.Figuring out what mistake you made, and oftentimes going further than you expected.

We forget the adventures we find in the pursuit of knowledge. Remember that curiosity, remember that excitement.

You gotta start demanding that people demonstrate their ability. I've learned over the last month the definition of "empty title". That's somebody who has a title but doesn't have the skill to match the title they have.

As a researcher, as a Black Atheist, I have a responsibility to follow the evidence, not how I feel, not how you or anybody feels. The evidence is objective, its constantly changing but objective nonetheless.

An elder gave me a book on speed reading and after treating my ADHD, I'm reading faster than baby Kat Williams on punishment.

We have to improve our learning ability, we have to interrogate our learning methods. What's working, what's not. Be your best.