{"id":1193710,"date":"2022-01-06T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193710"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:04:45","slug":"ucla-profs-book-states-rittenhouse-killed-two-black-men-then-she-insists-u-s-has-race-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucla-profs-book-states-rittenhouse-killed-two-black-men-then-she-insists-u-s-has-race-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Prof\u2019s Book States Rittenhouse Killed Two Black Men. Then She Insists U.S. Has \u2018Race Problem.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fucla-profs-book-states-rittenhouse-killed-two-black-men-then-she-insists-u-s-has-race-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A UCLA professor who is a self-described \u201cEgyptologist\u201d included a passage in a book she authored claiming Kyle Rittenhouse shot two black men, and when she was harshly criticized for her mistake, apologized but insisted that \u201cAmerica has a race problem,\u201d a \u201cdeep-seeded obsession with patriarchal power,\u201d and is plagued by \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and \u201cmisogyny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kara Cooney tweeted:<\/p>\n<p><em>On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaraCooney\/status\/1478780278726221824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf one mistake in a little known book about ancient Egypt elicits this much howling, it is to avoid discussing our larger problem, to avoid seeing our deep-seeded obsession with patriarchal power,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo yeah, tiny detail of the book with a big mistake about a massive American issue. And that\u2019s on me. But the white supremacy is still a problem. And the misogyny is still a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So yeah, tiny detail of the book with a big mistake about a massive American issue. And that\u2019s on me. But the white supremacy is still a problem. And the misogyny is still a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaraCooney\/status\/1478780280970248194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooney was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/brettt-3136\/2022\/01\/05\/professor-subjected-to-a-hateful-stew-of-ridicule-for-writing-in-her-book-that-kyle-rittenhouse-shot-two-black-men\/\">heavily criticized<\/a> on social media, with comments such as:<\/p>\n<p><em>I completely made up facts to support my fragile and fictitious worldview BUT YOUR REACTION TO THAT LIE IS THE REAL PROBLEM HERE!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Someone who writes a book, doesn\u2019t watch the trial, doesn\u2019t do an investigation then claims \u201cwhoops, just a mistake\u201d hopefully will hear from Kyle\u2019s lawyer soon!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was held to a higher standard than this for papers I wrote in high school. You aren\u2019t a victim here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you and your publishers put out a book \u201cmistaking\u201d an easily verifiable detail of a major case from this past year how can you or your publishers be trusted to put out information about ancient history<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How much can you really claim to care about this issue when you got such an obvious detail wrong? Did you not watch the case at all? The footage? How can you reconcile your alleged understanding of this problem with your ignorance about such a simple fact?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In December, Rittenhouse told Glenn Beck he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/rittenhouse-wants-conversation-with-biden-over-white-supremacist-suggestion\/\">wanted<\/a> to have a \u201cconversation\u201d with President Joe Biden for suggesting that Rittenhouse was a \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d He stated, \u201cI would like to sit down with the president and have a conversation with him and tell him the facts of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse was referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1311268302950260737\">tweet<\/a> Biden released during his 2020 presidential campaign that contained a video showing Rittenhouse carrying his AR-15 in Kenosha. Biden tweeted of former President Trump, \u201cThere\u2019s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse later told Tucker Carlson of Fox News, \u201cMr. President, if I could say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial and understand the facts before you make a statement.\u201d After Carlson interjected, \u201cThat\u2019s not a small thing to be called that,\u201d Rittenhouse continued, \u201cNo, it\u2019s, it\u2019s actual malice, defaming my character for him to say something like that. It\u2019s actually quite hysterical how nobody can go back and look at the facts of the case. \u2018He crossed state lines,\u2019 false. \u2018He\u2019s a white supremacist,\u2019 false. None of that is true. And the lies that they can just get away with spreading is just sickening. And it\u2019s a disgrace to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UCLA professor who is a self-described \u201cEgyptologist\u201d included a passage in a book she authored claiming Kyle Rittenhouse shot two black men, and when she was harshly criticized for her mistake, apologized but insisted that \u201cAmerica has a race problem,\u201d a \u201cdeep-seeded obsession with patriarchal power,\u201d and is plagued by \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and \u201cmisogyny.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}