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Suddenly, according to a radical black left-wing professor, anyone who questions the potential racial element of a murder just “has a political agenda to perpetuate.” oh really? It’s interesting. Where was this perspective after the death of George Floyd and Michael Brown?
Fittingly, this new claim comes in the wake of an incident in which a group of “diverse, equitable and inclusive” teenagers violently assaulted and killed a white teenager.
Now UNLV Associate Professor of African American Studies Tyler Parry has weighed in on the matter, calling it “political” to suggest that a group of black and brown teenagers who beat up a white teenager could constitute a hate crime.
Professor Tyler Parry says that mentioning race in the context of this incident brands you as a political hack.
Associate Professor Tyler Parry of UNLV’s African American and African Diaspora Studies said he believes those who see the beating as an example of a racist attack often have a political agenda to perpetuate.
“I find it interesting, just another point I think about every time I see these debates online, in terms of what lends itself or not, I never see these same people posting videos of black and white kids getting along.” Perry. said
“The vast majority of interactions between white and non-white people are perfectly fine,” he said. “I imagine at Rancho High School there are more cases of black and white kids getting along and having some sense of camaraderie than black kids attacking white kids and vice versa.”
Interestingly, we can’t seem to recall any African American studies professor suggesting in 2016 that “the vast majority of interactions between white police officers and non-white people are perfectly fine.”
Ironically, Professor Parry has a tendency to label almost everything under the sun as “racist”, but excludes this particular crime from the mix.
In case you were wondering, Professor Parry endorsed a far-left statement from his university, UNLV, after the death of George Floyd.
“On Black Lives Matter, Police Violence, and White Supremacy”
Statement by the faculty of the Afro-American and African Diaspora Studies Program @unlv @unlv_iges
Many thanks to the AADS coordinator @javonisme to start this bold statement
Please sharehttps://t.co/nPTek2CTMh
— Tyler D. Parry (@ProfTDParry) June 4, 2020
About black lives, police violence and white supremacy
The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee and the less publicized trans man Tony McDade at the hands of the state represent a long-standing and brutally racist tradition that is as American as the US anthem itself. The “Star Spangled Banner,” for example, informed us that black subjugation was built into the nation’s foundation: “No shelter could save the mercenary and the slave / From the terror of flight or the darkness of the grave.” . Indeed, two centuries after the anthem was written, after emancipation, after Reconstruction, after Jim Crow, after the Harlem Renaissance, the black arts movement, the civil rights era , the black power movement, and various black feminist and black queer movements, a The nation that celebrates whiteness is still unable to imagine black life and livability. Consequently, blacks still face “the darkness of the grave.” In this way, the justified anger and pain displayed in today’s protests is as much about George Floyd as it is about the countless names of black people who are too numerous to fit into this brief statement. More than that, the protests are about the structural ways in which anti-Black racism and white supremacy persistently work to make Black life unlivable.
Here’s more from Parry on Floyd’s death and how “lasting change” is needed.
A quick look at Parry’s Twitter account suggests that he often engages in promoting division and racism as if it were his career.
Curfews are racist.
Grateful to contribute some thoughts to this excellent article on the racist history of curfews.
Please read and share it with your networks. Also, it would be great for your courses in the summer/fall semesters https://t.co/bvey7GZ1MO
— Tyler D. Parry (@ProfTDParry) June 4, 2020
The entire state of California is “racist”.
An interesting case that surprises many because of what it argued about segregation, race and ethnicity. When I taught this case to students in Orange County, they were always 1) a little surprised that California is racist and 2) by the case’s reliance on “whiteness” as its main argument. https://t.co/MByvraoNr9
— Tyler D. Parry (@ProfTDParry) April 15, 2020
COVID reminds Professor Parry of ‘racism’.
Stephen Moore’s statement about the COVID-19 protesters reminds me of the historical reality that white racists always appropriate the symbols of black activists.
Ex.- “White Power”, coined by American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell, appropriated Carmichael’s “Black Power”.— Tyler D. Parry (@ProfTDParry) April 18, 2020
The language is also “racist”.
Great piece for @CitizenMurphy about the continued public use of racist language, using local examples to examine a wider national issue. https://t.co/a0mdJoFnbY
— Tyler D. Parry (@ProfTDParry) June 6, 2020
And of course conservatives are “racist”. Parry wrote one whole edition for the Washington Post about it.
According to Professor Parry, everything seems to qualify as racist except the recent killing in Las Vegas. He seems to dismiss outrage over a potential racial hate crime, like the recent incident in Las Vegas, as mere political opportunism. You have to admit, in the wake of the summer of Floyd and the “racial reckoning,” this is a remarkably sly and cheeky spin job.
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