Brittney Cooper: Prof blamed Trump supporters for Covid, bragged Rutgers cannot fire her
Brittney Cooper, the Rutgers University professor whose anti-White tirade has sparked an uproar on social media, previously made headlines after blaming former President Donald Trump for the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cooper, 40, claimed it was Trump and his supporters who were responsible for African-Americans dying at a disproportionate rate from the novel coronavirus. MEAWW previously reported how the professor faced calls to be fired from Rutgers after she said White people needed to be "taken out" during a discussion on critical race theory.
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Taking to Twitter in April last year, Cooper, an associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, made several comments directed at Trump supporters that were laced with profanity. “F--- each and every Trump supporter. You absolutely did this. You are to blame," she wrote, blaming them for the outbreak. "I said what I meant. And I curse cuz I'm grown," she wrote in part in a string of controversial tweets, adding, "I have tenure. Rutgers won't be firing me for tweets."
Cooper wrote in another post that she and other African-Americans suspect that the Trump administration's efforts to reopen the country were premature and “all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID.” She continued, “Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this mass winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power.”
Cooper's comments came just days after Dr Anthony Fauci said that high COVID death rates among African-Americans were largely attributable to pre-existing health conditions common in the Black community, including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and asthma. "It’s really terrible, because it’s just one of the failings of our society, that African-Americans have a disproportionate prevalence in incidents of the very comorbid conditions that put you at a high risk,” Fauci said at the time.
Cooper, however, claimed in another post that Trump supporters' loyalty to the former President had impaired their judgment about the pandemic. “They are literally willing to die from this clusterf---ed COVID response rather than admit absolutely anybody other than him [Trump] would have been a better president,” she wrote. “And when whiteness has a death wish, we are all in for a serious problem.”
Five days earlier, the educator wrote about “the depths of white depravity,” claiming Whites refused “to be swayed by facts, reason or the value of life itself, especially when those lives are Black.” She added, “It staggers me." Cooper's tweets have since been made private.
Having said that, Cooper has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration. In October 2019, she asserted that the former president's policies were partly to blame for weight problems among African-American women. A couple of months before that, she claimed Trump was willing to “get us into war” with China in a bid to keep the economy strong and improve his chances of re-election in 2020.