Another day, another American professor who turns out to be consumed with a hate-filled ideology that threatens to poison the minds of his students.
Johnny Eric Williams
On June 16, Johnny Eric Williams, who teaches sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, shared on Facebook an article from the Medium website entitled “Let Them F***ing Die.” The article (written by someone styling himself “Son of Baldwin”) consisted of a set of reflections inspired by the attempted mass murder of those Republican Congressmen by a former Bernie Sanders volunteer. Noting that Steve Scalise, the wounded GOP whip, is an opponent of gay marriage and that one of the two cops who saved his life was a lesbian named Crystal Griner, “Son of Baldwin” pondered the question: “What does it mean, in general, when victims of bigotry save the lives of bigots?”
Crystal Griner, the hero cop who saved the GOP congressional baseball team from a would-be assassin, threw out the first ball at the game
“Son of Baldwin,” who is apparently a gay black man, chided people like Griner who, despite being members of groups that are the objects of widespread bigotry, “think being the kind of thing that would sacrifice our lives for the very people who would reflexively slit our throats to create a fountain from which to drink our blood is noble.” Such minority-group members, he wrote, “imagine…that by becoming a shining example of this ‘righteous’ behavior, we might, somehow, guide these cannibals into becoming upright beings capable of following the very rules they enforce upon us.” This, “Son of Baldwin” asserted, is a misguided view. Instead of saving bigots, he wrote, people like Griner should let them die. He spelled out his point at length:
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.
If you see them drowning.
If you see them in a burning building.
If they are teetering on the edge of a cliff….[and so on]
Do nothing….
Let. Them. Fucking. Die.
And smile a bit when you do.
Sharing this article on Facebook, Williams used the hashtag “#LetThenF***ingDie.”
Chapel at Trinity College, Hartford
Two days after posting the link, Williams returned to his computer and banged out a couple of tweets in the same vein:
I’m fed the f*** up with self-identified ‘white’s’ daily violence directed at immigrants, Muslims, and sexual and racially oppressed people. The time is now to confront these inhuman assholes and end this now.
It is past time for the racially oppressed to do what people who believe themselves to be ‘white’ will not do, put end to the vectors of their destructive mythology of whiteness and their white supremacy system. #LetThenF***ingDie
Williams’s actions caused so much uproar that the powers that be at Trinity felt compelled to close the campus for the day on June 22.
Who is Johnny E. Williams? We’ll answer that tomorrow.
