America’s fear of black rage: Why tragic NYPD shootings are so misunderstood

Salon ^ | December 24, 2014 | Professor Brittney Cooper

[House Atreides]

Jeez, Brittney Cooper, the author of this article, is what passes for an intellectual now. She’s self obsessed with race, is filled with barely contained rage and a hatred that she projects on whites in lieu of recognizing it in herself.

I am SO glad I’m not her.

[tophat9000]

This is a statement justifying racism.. you are not an individual you are your race....

[Major Matt Mason]

It is the latest liberal meme that is repeated mindlessly by these folks. It's more of the approach of repeating things often enough so that they become truth. Probably getting marching orders directly from the White Hut.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

In the immortal words of Jerry Clower, this is obviously someone who is educated way beyond her intelligence.

[Chaguito]

This author has liberal privilege, in that she can read white peoples’ minds. And she doesn’t like what she reads.

At the same time that she insists that white privilege can’t recognize blacks as individuals, she lumps all whites together, a rather delicious irony.

[_longranger81]

I’m going to throw up.

[Vendome]

If this moron fell into the ocean the government would spend billions scraping stupid off the rocks of the shores and skimming it from the surface.

You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that “”reality forgot””. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us?

You charged the publication by the word for this dirge?

[Bernard Marx]

Brittney Cooper Brittney Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University in 2009. She also has an M.A. from Emory (2007) and bachelors degrees in English and Political Science from Howard University (2002).

Professor Cooper is currently completing her first book Race Women: Gender and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual Tradition, 1892-Present. Her work focuses extensively in the area of Black women's intellectual history, Black feminist thought, and race and gender politics in hip hop and popular culture. She has two forthcoming articles about hip hop feminism in Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society and African American Review.

Professor Cooper has also published book chapters on Black women's history in fraternal orders and the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident. She is co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog, which was named a top feminist blog by New York Magazine in 2011 and a top race blog by TheRoot.com in 2012. She writes for the CFC as "crunktastic."

E-mail: bcc63@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

[Publius]

The only thing that appears to be missing is Queer Studies.

[dadgum]

Ugly, Fat, and Stupid - what a terrible way to go through life!

Fork Down! Don’t eat!!!

[Chaguito]

“What Brinsley did was not revolutionary violence.”

This is why there currently can be no reasonable conversation. Even unbalanced people with a criminal record can be revolutionaries.

Fighting perceptions, some with a whiff of artificiality, is like hitting a pillow.

[PSUGOP]

Merry Christmas Freepers.

I wish folks like this would simply move away to some far away land. Maybe move to Africa, to get away from white people. The writer simply hates white people....then acts flabbergasted when the white people act strange regarding her black-centric world. To think a school gives this loon a forum is more scary than black rage.

[Eagles6]

If the cop killer was mentally ill it's contagious as he!!, spread among rioters, er..I mean "peaceful protesters", by social media, the msm, mosques, black churches and the host is the White House.

How can we live side by side with someone with such a view of reality so distorted by hate?

Here's a clue Ms Cooper, the KKK could only dream of killing as many blacks as abortion and the BBB (Bad Black Brother).

black on White violence dwarfs White on black violence.

More White people are killed by police than blacks.

Mainstream black culture in America today is violent, dysfunctional and delusional.

And, oh, BTW, your prestigious job is affirmative action paid for by White people. You really don't do anything productive for society.

[windsorknot]

Another gem of mediocrity with affirmative action privilege.

[a fool in paradise]

They have to libsplain what death threats and assassinations REALLY mean.

They aren’t so nuanced when they paint all opponents of abortion as “terrorists”.

[a fool in paradise]

On Saturday, two New York City police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, needlessly lost their lives when a lone gunman, suffering from clear mental health issues, executed them while they sat in their squad car

He didn't execute them. He had no legal authority to carry out such a sentence.

He assassinated them, or as they said in the Michael Brown case, he MURDERED them.

[tinyowl]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ...

[a fool in paradise]

There is a whole lot of back pedaling going on. They are afraid that they have lost their momentum.

As squandered an opportunity as when the Left thought they could pass sweeping firearms regulations in the wake of that school shooting.

[tanknetter]

We don’t talk about Ismaaiyl Brinsley in the way that we have discussed any number of white mass murderers over the years.

She's absolutely right about this.

The reason she's right is that "white mass murderers" are inevitably, often falsely, pegged as being right-wing Conservative extremists. This is done cynically, for political reasons, to drive a wedge between the political middle and the right, and to generate hate amongst the political Left towards the right (Alinsky's freeze/personalize/polarize).

Witness Eugene Robinson's comments, in the WaPo in his “Tea Party Thugs” opinion piece that ran on 03/26/2010:

“The tea party movement is fueled by rhetoric that echoes the paranoid ravings of the most extreme right-wing nutcases. When tea party leaders talk about the threat of “socialism” and call for “a new revolution” and vow to “take our country back,” they can say they are simply using vivid metaphors. But they cannot plausibly claim to be unaware that there are people - perhaps on the fringe of the movement, but close enough - who give every sign of taking these incendiary words literally.”

[onyx]

LOL.
You’re right.