“They’re not controversial in the academy. They’re not controversial within the black community. I don’t think they’re controversial at all,” Johnny Eric Williams said of his comments.
After facing criticism for posting on Twitter that “whiteness is terrorism,” Johnny Eric Williams, a sociology professor at Trinity College in Connecticut, stood by his comment on the basis that the ideology isn’t controversial.
He claimed race doesn't exist and instead characterized whiteness as a system which ranks socio-political groupings into hierarchies of superiority versus inferiority. Dominic Rapini, a 2018 Senate candidate for Connecticut and a Trinity alumnus, posted on Twitter that Williams was a “scar on this great institution.” Rapini later added that Wiliiams doesn’t accurately represent Trinity College.
“They’re not controversial in the academy. They’re not controversial within the black community. I don’t think they’re controversial at all,” Williams said of his tweets. “I think they’re controversial with people who see themselves as white, because it reveals in a telegraph that they’re immersed in that whiteness to a point where it’s hard for them to see anything else.”
This isn’t the first time Williams’ social media posts have come under scrutiny. Earlier in April he posted on Facebook that “‘white’ kneegrows really need a lot of therapy and a good ‘ol a** kicking.’” He commented on the post that he was referencing people like former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
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