Posted on 05/30/2022 7:41:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A University of Pennsylvania professor drew ridicule online for suggesting that first responders waited too long to engage the shooter in Uvalde, Texas last week because “police didn’t give a damn” about “brown kids.”
In a since-deleted tweet from Friday, UPenn Religious Studies and Africana Studies Professor Anthea Butler — who is also an MSNBC contributor — suggested that racism was responsible for the police failure to stop a gunman at a Texas elementary school in an attack that left 19 children and two adults dead.
“So since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn’t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it’s Texas.. and if you think everyone who isn’t white is illegal..”
Butler seemed to disregard the fact that the attacker in the Hispanic-majority City of Uvalde was himself of Latino descent, as were the city’s police chief, Daniel Rodríguez, the school’s police chief, Pedro Arredondo, and several other officers at the scene.
A few of the officers are reported to have had children trapped in the school at the time, some of whom died in the attack.
Butler later made her profile private following the critical responses to her tweet.
In 2015, Butler made headlines by suggesting Dr. Ben Carson deserved a “coon of the year” award.
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Butler, who has been featured many times in the media, has a long history of racially charged rhetoric.
In October, Butler stated that white evangelicals followed the Republican Party rather than Christian scripture.
I don’t think it would have mattered what color they were it just wasn’t going to happen - gravy train pension collectors weren’t going to risk a thing 🤪
Sounds like Anthea is the racist
In response to Butler’s tweet, many called out the professor’s remarks.
“They love their racism narrative so much they are willing to stand on the bodies of dead children to promote it,” wrote conservative commentator Jeff Charles.
“Protected Racist professors like AntheaButler are reasons why @Penn continues to be a national embarrassment to an already failing city awash with 200 murders,” wrote radio host Tony Bruno.
“Slugs like her allowing men to swim as women and criminals to run amok while she foments virulent race lies!” he added.
“AntheaButler your remarks were stupid, uvalde cops and the kids were as you call them ‘Brown’! Uvalde is mostly Hispanic and a beautiful town! It’s 50 miles from Mexico!” one user wrote.
“This is the most imbecilic, brain dead statement ever made by a fool on Twitter,” another user wrote. “Uvalde is a border town. The kids are Latinos. The cops are Latinos. Almost everybody is a Latino.”
“She teaches at Penn and works with MSNBC. Big surprise.”
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How would they have known what color the children were, if they didn’t go in the school?
I live in San Antonio. Uvalde is about 90 minutes west of me. Everyone is brown down here. What an idiot.
Anthea Butler still has a job?
And the university pays a-holes like this who some how learn to read and told by peers they can think but only remember facts they agree with or make up to support their biased f-tard agendas.
Butler has a darkness in her brain.
Butler: "Everybody's brown? No whites? Well, then it's OK. Their lives didn't matter."
Weren’t most of the LEOs “brown” too? (rolling eyes here)
Another, in a long line of walking, talking, birth control advertisement.
Almost everyone there is brown. Try again.
This is true. The whole town of Hispanic.
For a professor he’s not too sharp...
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