Vanderbilt Prof: White Privilege to Blame for Baltimore Riots
I’m glad there are smart people in academia to explain things like this to us.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller.
Vanderbilt Prof Blames Baltimore Riots On ‘White Privilege,’ Calls For Massive Surveillance Of White People
A black sociology professor at Vanderbilt University is arguing that “white privilege” is to blame for last week’s riots and looting in Baltimore, Md.
The professor, Tony N. Brown, took to the op-ed pages of The Tennessean late last week to make the claim.
White people act “routinely to harm, demean, and damage black and brown people,” Brown wrote in Nashville’s main newspaper. These actions “explain the lofty levels of frustration and despair among black and brown youth.”
The professor, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, cites other unrelated incidents as evidence of the riots after the April 19 death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. He recalls the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma who sang a shockingly racist song. He also alludes to the white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting at a fleeing black man eight times.
Brown then blames the white parents of the fraternity members “and others like them” for the racism of their white children.
Using a host of names blatantly implying maximum whiteness — including “Sarah,” “Liam,” “Chase” and “Katey” — Brown offers a blanket condemnation of white parents for sending children to “racially homogenous” schools and churches, living in predominantly white neighborhoods and failing to read children’s books featuring minority characters.
Brown blames white parents for telling “racially insensitive” jokes in front of children and allowing grandparents to use racial slurs “at Thanksgiving.”
Vanderbilt Prof Blames Baltimore Riots On ‘White Privilege,’ Calls For Massive Surveillance Of White People (The Daily Caller)
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Now Vanderbilt understands just how diversity leads to incompetence. This prof is so dumb, he doesn’t understand how the world really works. If he is not tenured, drop him as fast as possible.
First off, he has tenure and is a decorated member of a garbage department (aka sociology or liberology as it should be called at most universities). No one grows the balls to rant like this lunatic without the tenure shield in academia.
Second, he is the director of the “center for research on health disparities” at VU. If you don’t know what a health disparity is, allow me to inform below…
Basically, a bunch of researchers tried for years to figure out why some races suffer from chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes) more frequently than other races but could not find a genetic cause. This basically suggests epigenetic and/or environmental causes for increased prevalence.
A bunch of SJWs of the actual working political world decided to assume this MUST be due to some kind of “white privilege” or institutional racism type mythical construct. Basically, slavery and segregation were bad and that causes modern day minorities to eat poorly and receive less access to health care (a complete farce), as long as they are of a politically advantageous race.
Never mind the French paradox or the lifespan of Asian races or anything like that for which there is also no current genetic explanation….we, the modern day carpetbaggers, have a narrative to construct and we can’t let the patience required for pure science get in the way of our opportunism and political gains to be sought.