UPenn Professor Ripped for Suggesting Police Allowed Texas Schoolchildren to Die Because They Were ‘Brown’

breitbart ^ | 30 May 2022 | ,JOSHUA KLEIN

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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.

[goodnesswins]

Nice mop she’s wearing...covers her useless brain

[caww]

She's one nasty racist....perfect example of angry black woman.

[Mark17]

Weren’t most of the LEOs “brown” too? (rolling eyes here)

They were indeed. I have been to Uvalde many times, when I was stationed in Del Rio. Yes, THAT Del Rio, that’s been in the news. Uvalde is 81.8% Hispanic, 14.9% white. So much for her standard BS racist line. Democrats are scum.

[OHPatriot]

Can’t fire her. She is of the AA “protected” class. Screw that, the racist should have been fired right after she made that dumbass remark. U of Penn, isn’t this the same shithole university BiDung was a “full” professor?

[lurk]

They are not obligated to be truthful; they are collectivists.

[LibertyWoman]

right on

[TigersEye]

Anthea Butler is a racist moron. Any school that would hire her isn’t worth attending.

[DennisR]

What a pathetic, lost, soulless human being.

[EinNYC]

A self-agrandizing moron. Check out the “Look at ME” over-the-top glasses.

[EinNYC]

Would anyone—anyone at all—adopt this ragamuffin at the pound? Nope! Clearly an AA hire.

[lee martell]

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100% Recycled Plastic.

[MarvinStinson]

However, the associate professor was not alone in her unfounded claims.

Left-wing columnist Wajahat Ali expressed agreement with Butler’s sentiments when he tweeted, “I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this.”

Erika Wilson, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina, concurred.

“It would be naive to believe race didn’t in some way color the response,” she wrote. “You are not wrong for asking the question.”

In a lengthy thread, activist Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman — who co-founded the Sadie Collective, a group dedicated to fighting alleged racism experienced by black women in the economics field — expressed her conviction that racism undoubtedly contributed to the Uvalde deaths.

“I’ve heard from a couple of Black and Brown people that the slow response to a bunch of Latino children’s lives being endangered was intentional,” she wrote. “Honestly, racism will do that.”

“IT WAS RACISM ALL ALONG,” she charged in another tweet. “The gun violence? Racism. The slow PD response? Racism. Abbott getting his check after hearing the reports? Racism.”

“It’s racism steeped in apathy. It is the intentional disregard for Black and Brown lives,” she added. “It has BEEN reality so wake up.”

Opoku-Agyeman claimed that “these attacks are targeting communities of color IN OUR COMMUNITIES.” She continued, “the same people who arrested the parents fighting for their CHILDREN’S LIVES would have cosigned every protest against Black and Brown children integrating white schools probably.”

“And that’s why this boils down to racism,” she added.

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Legal expert Jonathan Turley highlighted how Butler — unlike her counterparts on the right — “knows that she can write and advocate without fear of university actions to remove her,” calling free speech “a privilege often exercised selectively today.”

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In October, Butler stated that white evangelicals followed the Republican Party rather than Christian scripture.

Last May, she claimed evangelical Christians are invariably white racists who “may end up killing us all.”

“If evangelicals don’t change, they pose an existential crisis to us all,” she warned. “They are part and parcel of the reason why we cannot move forward, because they say they have religious beliefs.”

“And because they are being selfish and because they don’t care, their racism, their sexism, their homophobia, their lack of belief in science, lack of belief and common sense may end up killing us all,” she added.

In 2013, the professor faced backlash after calling God a “white racist.”

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“Every so often a book comes along that distills essential truths so crisply, so powerfully, that it feels not just valuable but vital–alive with the clear, brilliant, and even thrilling thinking we need like we need water and air. Anthea Butler writes with force and grace of what is, how it came to be, and why it must change. White Evangelical Racism is an American revelation, in the real, deep sense of that rightly troubling word.”—Jeff Sharlet, best-selling author of The Family and This Brilliant Darkness

“A half century ago, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. observed that ‘the most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o’clock on Sunday morning.’ In this powerful book, Anthea Butler reckons with the ways in which religious devotion and racial division still reinforce each other in the lives of many evangelical Christians to this day.”—Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

“A searing indictment of the American evangelical tradition. As Anthea Butler shrewdly illustrates, racism is embedded in the deepest structures of evangelicalism, viscerally present from the slaveholding Christianity of Frederick Douglass’s era to ongoing evangelical support for the bigoted policies of former Donald Trump. Urging us to see evangelicalism as a nationalistic political movement upholding white hegemony, Butler has written a dazzling book: an essential, if excruciating, read for those personally shaped by evangelicalism no less than for those flummoxed by it.”—R. Marie Griffith, author of Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics

“Spotlighting how white evangelicals have espoused and practiced an enduring commitment to white supremacy and anti-Blackness from antebellum America to Donald Trump and beyond, White Evangelical Racism stands out for its historical breadth and for Anthea Butler’s unique gifts as both an accomplished African American historian and a popular media writer. This book will be greeted with great anticipation and attention.”—Lerone A. Martin, author of Preaching on Wax

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[MarvinStinson]

Kamala Harris Is Already Facing Sexist And Racist Attacks — And They’ll Only Get Worse

by UPenn Religious Studies and Africana Studies Professor Anthea Butler

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kamala-harris-already-facing-sexist-racist-attacks-it-ll-only-ncna1236620

Immediately after the announcement Tuesday that Sen. Kamala Harris was Joe Biden’s selection for the vice president’s slot on the Democratic presidential ticket, the attacks and criticisms began flying across the web from conservatives and liberals alike. She’s “extraordinarily nasty.” She’s “a cop.” She’s too conservative — or she’s too liberal. She changes her mind constantly.

Funny how a competent, successful woman accomplishing something heretofore unprecedented seems to do that to people.

Harris’ story and rise to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for vice president — and the first Asian American and the first Black woman on any ticket — should be a story about the first-generation child of immigrants rising to the top of the political world through intellect, strategy and wit. Instead, the quest to tear apart her identity, her accomplishments and every single one of her missteps will continue on both sides of the aisle and in the media until Election Day in November.

Harris, a California Democrat, is furthermore now being singled out by conservatives because she is a child of immigrants from Jamaica and Indian: In the toxic racial environment of America, a past which was once lauded as American exceptionalism is now a reason to revive birtherism — the same ahistoric, anti-constitutional thinking once intended to deny President Barak Obama his elected office because of his father’s immigrant status.

The Twitter hashtag TrustBlackWomen got started in part because of Black women’s political savvy during the 2017 Alabama Senate race between Roy Moore and Doug Jones and our understanding of which candidates are worthy of our votes. (Black women also overwhelmingly voted against Trump in 2016.)

America, meanwhile, is still clearly roiling from having had exactly one African American president, having thereafter, with the overwhelming support of white people, elected a president who made his love for Confederate paraphernalia and its fans well known rather than a well-qualified white woman.

Harris achieved her presumptive nomination because of her skills and intellect — as well as her publicly demonstrated ability to dissect through the lies of this administration. Her elevation at this moment serves as bridge between the old politics of the Democratic Party as represented by men like Biden and the newer, progressive politics of the party represented by women like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and others.

[ronnie raygun]

Knew this was coming, take his tenure and pension away and lets hear from him again

[joma89]

The democrat party is the racist party.

[Mark17]

Nice mop she’s wearing...covers her useless brain

Are you sure she has a brain? 😀😂😃