This blew my mind!

[kpete]

William A. Darity Jr. is an American economist and social sciences researcher.

He’s currently the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University.

Maybe take a moment…

When an actual Scholar meets a Twitter monkey.

Link to tweet

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[MutantAndProud]

1. :)

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

2. More, more, MORE.

Of this. Right now, Ronda Santis and others across this nation are trying to re-write history and eliminate from schools and universities, and our textbooks the truth about the brutality, violence, murder and destruction of Black communities.

We cannot allow this to happen.

[malaise]

3. Just the truth

He nailed it

[Spazito]

4. That was so good!

The Professor nailed that rightwing POS using the stark facts.

Thanks for posting this.

[Dave says]

5. That was a thing of beauty!!

[gratuitous]

6. The interlocuter may not be quite so happy that Dr. Darity came to his little corner of the world

He won't sit down for a week after that spanking.

[wryter2000]

12. The idiot was going to pursue it further but was stopped.

I hope he's ashamed of himself, but I truly doubt it.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Such an excellent response, delivered calmly and with authority.

[grantcart]

9. Race riots in America were almost exclusively white mobs attacking black populations.

[wryter2000]

10. 100 massacres?

I know about some, but 100? And he didn't mention white violence about native people, everywhere, not just here.

[Caliman73]

14. Learning about more massacres would interfere with the myth of American Exceptionalism...

We do not get taught about all of the violence and illegal (well, unlawful because it was typically made "legal&quot appropriation of property and violation of rights on people of color and indigenous people by White people. That would not be "patriotic" and might make some people feel bad about themselves.

[soldierant]

19. and against Asians and Hispanics.

[soldierant]

20. Roughly 1865 to 1945 is eighty years

100 is a little over one somewhere every year. Sounds about right. Doesn't include indivudual lynchings of course.

And the massacres were very much about property. (And so were the Salem witch trials ... but that's not widely known.)

[Wild blueberry]

11. Magnificent

Thank you.

[Alice Kramden]

13. Excellent answer

K&R

[rubbersole]

15. Snap.

Sit down junior. You'll need a tourniquet for that cut.

[intrepidity]

16. mumble mumble mumble

Typical inarticulate right winger, can't even understand whatever "question" he's trying to ask. And don't care.

Or maybe my brain just learned to hear them all like the teacher in Snoopy cartoons.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. ie. Sit the fuck down. Next silly question? Well done!!

[not a texan]

18. If you steal the land and the labor it is easy to be exceptional

I have said for many years America has actually been underachieving. We stole the labor from the Africans who were brought here in chains. We stole the land and all the riches it contained from the native Americans. If you pay nothing for labor, and nothing for raw materials, you should be richer than the county is. We have no business telling other nations how to conduct themselves. In reality we have no business doing that anyway.

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. Propagandistic claims.

[betsuni]

22. When one of those hyperbolic headlines, So-and-so DESTROYS so-and-so, is actually true.

[Hope22]

23. Boom goes the dynamite....

Next question?

[Emile]

24. K&R

[Ray Bruns]

25. Twitter monkey. That's a keeper.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Fascist propagandist put in place, pronto.

The dustbin of history.

K&R

[The Jungle 1]

27. Wow

Which makes it very clear why the right wants to STOP teaching history.
Massacres, lynchings and racism is the history of white America. It was not just one part of our society that white America did this to. Every new group that came to America suffered.

[ejbr]

28. Also

Native Americans and the Chinese have a few words about who's violent

[barbtries]

29. Here's the entire lecture and Q&A

[underpants]

30. To the guy in the audience- Shut up and sit down

You just got WORN OUT.