A tenured Rutgers University professor is facing backlash on social media after making a slew of disparaging comments against white people...
A tenured Rutgers University professor is facing backlash on social media after making a slew of disparaging comments against white people over the course of several years - but the college that employs her hasn't said a word.
In her most recent tirade, Dr. Brittney Cooper, 41, a tenured professor at Rutgers University, told The Root's Michael Harriot in an online segment for the publication last month that white people are 'villains' - and even celebrated a statistic depicting a decline in white birth rates.
What's more, when primed by Harriot as to what her solution for addressing white supremacy would be, the educator vehemently replied that she would 'take them out.'
A slew of social media users expressed their outrage over the educator's contentious comments after her latest tirade went viral.
'I am DISGUSTED and EMBARRASSED to be a @rutgersalumni if this is the type of person you have as faculty now,' one Twitter user wrote Friday.
'You have let all of your Alumni down & degraded our school. Thank you for making our country even worse.'
Another user called on Rutgers to take punitive measures against the professor, whose Twitter handle is @ProfessorCrunk.
'When are you going to fire @ProfessorCrunk #BrittneyCooper,' an irate user wrote.
'I can’t understand how you can employ someone who can say the kind of things she said,' they added, capping the fervent post with a #firebrittneycooper hashtag.
Dr. Brittney Cooper, 41, a tenured professor at Rutgers University, has faced intense backlash over a series of comments disparaging white people that many have deemed racist
A Twitter user who claimed to be an alum wrote Friday: 'You have let all of your Alumni down & degraded our school. Thank you for making our country even worse'
Many users, including this one, are calling on Rutgers to take action
Another peeved observer expressed a similar sentiment on Wednesday, clamoring for Cooper's dismissal from the New Jersey university
Another observer, on Wednesday, expressed a similar sentiment.
'I'd like to know what @RutgersU is going to do about Brittney Cooper. How is this hate speech acceptable?'
The following day, a fellow commentator wrote: 'Brittney Cooper can f**k all the way off with her racist ass!' the user blasted Thursday night on Twitter, posting a graphic that highlighted a quote from the professor.
Another added: 'Brittney Cooper, a professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies,' before discerning, 'At least now we know which departments to abolish.'
Someone else commented, 'I don't know much, but I know Professor Brittney Cooper of the public university Rutgers is one nasty racist motherf***er. We pay that evil b***h to f***ing hate us and our country. What the hell happened to our country?'
'I think it’s poetic Justice that Brittney Cooper hates white people while having quite possibly THE whitest name possible,' someone wrote.
Another sarcastically congratulated Cooper on what they deemed to be examples of clear-cut racism.
One commentator added his take to the flood of criticisms
Another added, 'Brittney Cooper, a professor of women's and gender studies and Africana studies,' before discerning, 'At least now we know which departments to abolish'
Someone else commented, 'What the hell happened to our country?'
'I think it’s poetic Justice that Brittney Cooper hates white people while having quite possibly THE whitest name possible,' a user quipped
Another user sarcastically congratulated Cooper on what they deemed to be examples of clear-cut racism
Rutgers University execs and staff have elected to stay silent despite their employee's highly publicized hate speeches
The Rutgers professor who made shocking comments last month about white people alluded during an interview with MSNBC last year that American conservatives were trying to kill black people by reopening society during the COVID pandemic.
What's more, Cooper also wrote in a 2012 blog post that then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was 'white rage personified' after a photo surfaced of the Republican pointing a finger in the face of then-President Barack Obama when they met at a Phoenix airport.
She has also tweeted a series of controversial statements during an alarming Twitter tirade last year, saying that white conservatives don’t care about the lives of Black people.
Many have called on the professor's employer to comment on Cooper's highly publicized verbal attacks - but as of Friday, the university has failed to do so.
Members of the faculty have also seemed to elect to stay silent over the matter.
When asked by DailyMail.com for comment Friday morning, the university did not immediately reply.
Dr. Brittney Cooper, a tenured Rutgers professor, alluded during a televised interview with MSNBC last year that American conservatives were trying to kill black people by reopening society during the COVID pandemic
Cooper, who is a tenured women's, gender and Africana studies professor at the New Jersey university, made headlines earlier this month after she proudly proclaimed 'we got to take white people out' in an online discussion with Harriot in September.
Now, the professor's past remarks and blog posts are under scrutiny, after a host of controversial comments regarding race, such as her saying whiteness 'totally skews our view of everything.'
'Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power,' Cooper tweeted back in April 2020, under the Twitter handle ProfessorCrunk.
'Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power,' Cooper tweeted last year
During a May 2020 interview with MSNBC's Joy Reid, Brewer claimed that white conservatives were secretly plotting to kill low-income black Americans by pushing to alleviate travel restrictions months after the coronavirus first surfaced in the U.S.
The pair was joined by white politician Seth Harris, the former deputy secretary of labor.
The professor has also extensively chronicled her hatred for white conservatives on a blog site she cofounded, called Crunk Feminist Collective, where she writes under the name 'Crunktastic.'
In one post from 2012, Cooper criticized politician Jan Brewer after the then-governor of Arizona was pictured pointing her finger at then-President Obama when the two exchanged met on the tarmac of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
She called the conservative politico the epitome of 'white rage' in a post published the day after the highly publicized encounter, titled, White Women’s Rage: 5 Thoughts on Why Jan Brewer Should Keep Her Fingers to Herself.
'Newt Gingrich is white rage personified. And for it, he gets loads of applause. So is Jan Brewer, but usually we think of white rage in masculine terms,' Cooper wrote.
Brewer, a white woman, later said she was only chiding the then-president after she sought to speak to him about jobs and the economy and he changed the subject, saying: 'I was not hostile.'
Cooper wrote in a 2012 blog post that then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was 'white rage personified' after this photo surfaced of the Republican pointing a finger in the face of then-President Barack Obama when they met at a Phoenix airport
The educator writes under the pseudonym 'Crunktastic' for a blog she co-founded called the Crunk Feminist Collective
During the discussion with Harriot, however, the educator took a contentious stance concerning the relationship between race and politics, in an online segment titled Unpacking The Attacks On Critical Race Theory on September 21.
She started by saying on the topic: 'Kids actually can grasp Critical Race Theory because the issue that the right has, is that Critical Race Theory is just the proper teaching of American history.'
She said the accurate portrayal of history was the white people 'didn't discover America' because there were already indigenous people and that they had 'committed acts of violence in order to make yourselves seem superior.'
Cooper added: 'It's not that white people don't know what they have done,' presumably referencing slavery, which was abolished in 1865 after a nearly 300-year-long stint of being legal.
'They fear that there is no other way to be human than the way in which they are human' noting that whenever she speaks to a white person they write off 'all of this power' as merely a part of 'human nature'.
New Jersey professor Brittney Cooper (pictured) said: 'We got to take these motherf*****s out' when discussing white people and Critical Race Theory (CRT) during an online conference with The Root Institute on September 21
Host Michael Harriot (left) nodded in agreement throughout the conversation as Cooper (right) said that whiteness 'totally skews our view of everything,' adding that she also 'thinks that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate'
Cooper continued: 'They do this thing where they say that how white people have done humanity - how they have acted as human beings - is the way all of us act. So they think black people are going to get them back.
'And I wouldn't be mad at the black people who want to get them back but what I believe about black people is that we have seen what a sh** show this iteration of treatment of other human beings means. And my hope is that we would do it differently in the moments when we have some power.'
During Cooper's response Harriot was seen nodding his head in agreement before asking the Rutgers professor what she thinks the other options are.
He provided the options as 'they' - presumably lumping all white people together - 'coming around to the majority of human beings on the planet's way of thinking' or 'they say f*** that' because they don't want to relinquish said 'power'.
Cooper called whiteness an 'inconvenient interruption' in history and referenced a 2016 TED Talk where she 'broke down the subject of racism and its passage through the history of America'
Cooper candidly responded: 'The thing I want to say to you is, "We got to take these motherf*****s out," but like we can't say that,' before noting that she 'doesn't believe in a project of violence'.
She shared that she also 'thinks that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate'.
She added that whiteness 'totally skews our view of everything' and cited a TED Talk she did on the topic back in 2016 titled The Racial Politics Of Time. According to a synopsis the speech 'broke down the subject of racism and its passage through the history of America'.
Cooper - a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC - went on to elaborate on 'white colonialism' and said it is her job to help 'get to the other side of this very inconvenient apoca(lyptic)-interruption of black and indigenous world-making'.
She then asked: 'Does that give people comfort on the day-to-day when you're just having to deal with white folks and the travesties that they create in the sense that they want to destroy the planet?'
'Nah,' Cooper said in response to her own question.
'Despite what white people think of themselves they do not define the laws of eternity,' she added when theorizing about when whiteness, which she called an 'inconvenient interruption' in history, will end.
'Their projects are not so sophisticated' she added, noting that she 'showed up' in this point of history 'precisely so that we could help to figure out an end and a way to the other side of this gargantuan historical tragedy that is white supremacy'.
The Root Institute's description of the conversation called it 'a healthy dose of reality'.
The New Jersey professor teaches classes on women's and genders studies and authored three books 'expressing her frustrations, desires and expectations of society as an African American feminist woman,' according to Cooper's website.
Cooper is a professor who teaches classes on women's and genders studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey
Rutgers University has yet to comment on Cooper's statements.
After a look at her social media it is evident that Cooper keeps her personal life out of the public eye. It is unclear if she is in a relationship or has children.
But she did carve out time in the segment to discuss white people having children. She said: 'White people's birth rates are going down...because they literally cannot afford to put newer generations into the middle class.'
'They kind of deserve it,' she added with a smile.
Cooper ended the segment circling back to CRT, saying that it helps black people 'reclaim our own heritage, our own power, our own sense of the ways that our life-giving strategies'.
'That's why white people are afraid of us,' she said, adding: 'Until they need us.'
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