{"id":1496294,"date":"2022-05-29T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496294"},"modified":"2022-05-29T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:15:48","slug":"ivy-league-prof-ripped-for-claiming-uvalde-police-let-kids-die-because-they-were-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivy-league-prof-ripped-for-claiming-uvalde-police-let-kids-die-because-they-were-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Prof Ripped For Claiming Uvalde Police Let Kids Die Because They Were \u2018Brown\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\">30<\/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%2Fivy-league-prof-ripped-for-claiming-uvalde-police-let-kids-die-because-they-were-brown%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=1496294&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>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ivy-league\">Ivy League<\/a> professor is under fire for suggesting Texas police didn\u2019t respond sooner to last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-pounce-on-texas-school-shooting-demand-taking-away-constitutional-rights\">school shooting in Uvalde<\/a> because they \u201cdidn\u2019t give a damn\u201d about children who were largely Latino.<\/p>\n<p>Anthea Butler, an associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MSNBC contributor, made the shocking claim in a tweet that she later deleted. The charge came amid damning new information about the delayed response of local police, who reportedly waited more than an hour to storm a Robb Elementary School classroom where the shooter was slaughtering children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn\u2019t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it\u2019s Texas..and if you think everyone who isn\u2019t white is illegal,\u201d Butler tweeted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">University of Pennsylvania professor Anthea Butler is at the center of another controversy after suggesting that the Uvalde police \u201cdidn\u2019t give a damn\u201d about the children because they were \u201cpredominantly brown kids.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vOzTUXYReK\">https:\/\/t.co\/vOzTUXYReK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1530867519065669635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics note that Uvalde School District Police Chief Pedro \u201cPete\u201d Arredondo, who reportedly held officers back as 19 children and two teachers were killed by a gunman, is Latino, as is city Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez. Several of the local and federal officers who responded to the scene are also Latino, and many have children in the school.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s policy is to not name the shooter, who was finally killed by an elite Border Patrol agent, because mass shooters are often motivated by a desire for infamy.<\/p>\n<p>George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote about Butler\u2019s claim <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/05\/29\/i-mean-because-its-texas-penn-professor-alleges-police-may-have-delayed-rescue-in-uvalde-due-to-racism\/\">on his blog<\/a>, saying it should be protected as free speech, but noted that conservative professors who make far less divisive statements backed by evidence are often punished or fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Butler has a long history of offensive racial statements,\u201d Turley wrote. \u201cWhile some have previously called for her termination, these comments (including this disgraceful tweet) should be protected under principles of free speech and academic freedom. However, this is another example of the double standard often applied at universities, which are quick to investigate, discipline, or fire conservative, libertarian, or dissenting faculty members in such controversies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others on Twitter blasted Butler\u2019s hot take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthea Butler is the new kind of College intellectual racist, dumb and absolutely wrong,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johncxgx\/status\/1530868709593686016?s=20&#038;t=GKJeJAlYbJz_PMurqEaCww\">tweeted @Johncxgw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is crazy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCalantjis\/status\/1530878217845936129?s=20&#038;t=GKJeJAlYbJz_PMurqEaCww\">tweeted @RCalantjis<\/a>. \u201cThere were white kids who died too. This has nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butler has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=15673\">described<\/a> conservatives as \u201ccraven and evil\u201d and called black neurosurgeon and former Trump administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary\u00a0Dr. Ben Carson a \u201ccoon.\u201d She is the author of a book entitled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9781469661179\/white-evangelical-racism\/\">White Evangelical Racism<\/a>, in which she claims that Christianity in the United States is interwoven with the institution of slavery and support of the Ku Klux Klan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/professorwatchlist.org\/professor\/antheabutler\">Professor Watch List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Butler has also claimed that evangelical Christians believe that police are \u201cordained\u201d by God to kill black people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ivy League professor is under fire for suggesting Texas police didn\u2019t respond sooner to last week\u2019s school shooting in Uvalde because they \u201cdidn\u2019t give a damn\u201d about children who were largely Latino. Anthea Butler, an associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MSNBC contributor, made the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1496304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496294","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\/1496294","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}