Rutgers Professor Brittney Cooper Launches Into Race-Based Tirade Over Rittenhouse Verdict

RUSH EXCERPT:

COOPER: “The depth of my rage today are almost uncontainable. I don’t know how much brazen hypocrisy we’re supposed to take in the name of the law. We live in a country that said slavery and lynching and segregation was legal. Today we’re asked to say it is legal and respect the rule of law because a white boy deputized himself, went out, terrorized people that were using their constitutional right to protest. But there’s another thing to say about this. This is also white America’s reckoning with which version of whiteness is it going to choose, is it going to choose to be in the legacy of the confederacy, about oppressing people, or will it choose whiteness in the legacy of the union, about saying there are principles greater than the idea that we get to sub Joe debate people. When folks say this can’t be about racism because the victims are white, no. There have always been white victims of white supremacy. Andrew goodman, Michael Cheney wasn’t white, but the other two were, they were killed as allies against the white supremacist assault on black life.”