W.F. Twyman, Jr.
Winkfield (Wink) F. Twyman, Jr. is the co-author of Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America, the co-author of Vashon to Lincoln: The Coming of a Better Time (appeared in The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience), On the Road to Oak Lawn: Truth, Reconciliation and the Twymans (self-published) and the epic novel Gotterdammerung (publication pending). Known for his aversion to dogmas and slogan words, Twyman has penned daily essays for over three years on his lonely Subtack https://twyman.substack.com/ and co-hosted nearly thirty podcasts with Michael Bowen on the Free Black Thought podcast. The sweep of Twyman's contributions extends to The Glenn Show podcast, The Radical Center podcast with Leslie Elliott, You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist podcast with Stephanie Winn, and numerous appearances on the Institute for Liberal Values (ILV) podcast. Be it The New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Black Law Journal, the Virginia Tax Review or the University of South Carolina Law Review, Twyman has in his gentle, highly sensitive manner observed the human condition despite all manner of family pressure to the contrary. A native of Richmond, Virginia and a child of public school desegregation in the New South, he is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a happy alumni of the University of Virginia and a former law professor.
"A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising pecentage of the time--most people don't even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are." -- attributed to a man of note
Who are you? I am a former law professor, an essayist, a writer, a dreamer and an American native to Virginia.
What do you do? I am a former law professor who has chosen to observe the human condition all around me and write of the things I see.
What do you believe? I believe in life before politics. I believe in the lost paradise of Black American culture and consciousness before colonization by Black Studies and Liberated Ethnic Studies. Above all these things, I believe in the value of an examined life. https://twyman.substack.com/
Fellow Board Members and the Invisible Hand of Ethics: As a federal government employee, Ethics blessed me with 13 pages of guidance.I will not bore you with the details as you have better things to do on a Friday afternoon. Just be aware that I will always refer to myself as "a former law professor," never my current position or job title. I work in the shadows (smile). And you should do the same in any public or private discussions regarding me. If your business or personaI activities should intersect wtih the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), please alert me as soon as possible so that I may recuse myself. Finally, I am a non-partisan in the extreme. I will go silent or change the subject should partisan politics arise. That's it. 13 pages of guidance distilled to the key points.
