Citing the need for “honest conversations,” a controversial Rutgers Professor declared in a recent interview that “White people are committed to being villains,” and “We gotta take these motherfuckers out.”
Dr. Brittney Cooper, a professor in the Rutgers Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department that goes by the Twitter moniker “ProfessorCrunk,” appeared on a September YouTube interview with writer Michael Harriot of The Root to discuss Critical Race Theory and recent attempts to oppose it being taught in elementary and high schools.
The video was unearthed by the Media Research Center, which tweeted it this week.
“White people thought, ‘there is a world here, and we own it,’” said Cooper, arguing that white people are afraid to give up power because they may face retribution from African Americans who have been historically oppressed.
“So they think black people gonna get them back,” said Cooper. “And I wouldn’t be mad at the black people who want to get them back,” she added, “but what I believe about black people is that we have seen what a shit show this iteration of treatment of other human beings means and that my hope is that we would do it differently in the moments when we have some power.”
Cooper says white people will not trust black people with power because they are “so corrupt” and their thinking is “so morally and spiritually bankrupt” about power. She says whites only understand a system where either “you dominate or you are dominated.”
When Harriot asked Cooper what black Americans should expect from whites, she threw up her hands and asked...
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