Brittney Cooper, 41, a professor at Rutgers University, made the surprising comment through an online discussion with The Root's Michael Harriot, titled ‘Unpacking The Attacks On Critical Race Theory’ on September 21.
She began by saying, "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 announced that the accurate portrayal of history was that 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."
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Cooper continued: "It's not that white people don't know what they have done," probably referencing slavery, which was abolished in 1865 after an almost 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."
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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. And my hope is that we would do it differently in the moments when we have some power."
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Through Cooper's response, Harriot could be seen nodding his head in agreement before asking the Rutgers professor what she thinks the other options are.
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He presented the options as "they" - probably 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 candidly replied: "The thing I want to say to you is, 'We gotta take these motherf*****s out,' but like we can't say that," before noting that she "doesn't believe in a project of violence."
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She shared that she "thinks that White people are committed to being villains in the aggregate."
She continued 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 address "broke down the subject of racism and its passage through the history of America."
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