Brittney Cooper, an associate professor of women's and gender studies and Africana studies, said: "The thing I want to say to you is, 'We gotta take these mother******s out,' but like, we can't say that, right? I don't believe in a project of violence, I truly don't," because "our souls suffer from that." Campus Reform reported the Sept. 21 talk by Cooper discussed the rising cost of living for white people, saying, "White people’s birth rates are going down ... because they literally cannot afford to put their children, newer generations, into the middle class ... It's super perverse, and...