“Nothing makes me angrier than a white person who tells me not to be angry, because they have not seen real anger yet,” said Khilanani, according to the New York Post. The lecture was entitled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” Aruna Khilanani’s talk at Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center were shocking and appalling. While Butler’s recent comments about evangelicals were deemed offensive and racist, the sound bites that emerged from Dr.
Butler, a tenured professor, was not fired or disciplined. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.” Her comments attracted national media attention and an uproar on Twitter deeming Butler a racist and calling for Penn to fire her, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. “As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us,” she wrote. In 2013, she wrote an op-ed for Religious Dispatch in the wake of the not-guilty verdict of George Zimmerman, who was accused of murdering Trayvon Martin. This is not the first time Butler has come under fire for controversial comments.
“Our provost and the Dean of the College looked into this and concluded that while the panel raised ideas that could certainly be deemed controversial, it was an entirely appropriate academic endeavor and did not violate any university policy,” UVA spokesperson Brian Coy told The College Fix. “Members of UVA Department of Religious Studies faculty have unloaded on white evangelicals in as wide-ranging and comprehensive an example of collegial vitriol as you will ever watch or read,” wrote James Sherlock in a column on Bacon’s Rebellion, a public policy blog.ĭespite Sherlock’s threat to file formal hate speech complaints, administrators at the University of Virginia decided the issue no longer needs further review. “They are part and parcel of the reason why we cannot move forward…their racism, their sexism, their homophobia, their lack of belief in science, lack of belief and common sense may end up killing us all.” “If evangelicals don’t change, they pose an existential crisis to us all,” Butler said, according to. This spring, two academic seminars with ties to Ivy League universities came under fire for incendiary comments regarding race. A University of Pennsylvania professor said white evangelicals are racists who “may end up killing us all,” while a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine expressed frustration with the national dialogue by she saying had fantasies about shooting white people.Īnthea Butler, associate professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was a panelist at a spring seminar hosted by the University of Virginia, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.” In her television interview with Hill, Khilanani explained the source of her harboring violent feelings towards white people was an effort to air repressed emotions that too many are afraid to face.Editor’s note: The following article was reprinted with permission from Christian Union: The Magazine. Yale School of Medicine does not condone imagery of violence or racism against any group.” Yale School of Medicine expects the members of our community to speak respectfully to one another and to avoid the use of profanity as a matter of professionalism and acknowledgment of our common humanity. The Yale School of Medicine added a disclaimer to the video, which reads: “This video contains profanity and imagery of violence. Officials described the talk's tone and content to be "antithetical to the values of the school" before they limited the video of it to the Yale community, according to NBC Connecticut. 5 Khilanani's April 6 lecture was presented at Yale's Child Study Center on April 6, where she also said white people "make my blood boil" and "are out of their minds and have been for a long time" Credit: Black News Tonight
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