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MCALLISTER: UPENN Professor Equates ‘Whiteness’ With Violence

Denise C. McAllister

A professor who teaches at one of America’s elite Ivy League colleges went on a Twitter rant about the Covington High School controversy, saying “the smiling face of Whiteness” is one that “always hides a knife behind its back.”

University of Pennsylvania Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, commented on 16-year-old Nick Sandmann’s demeanor when he and his classmates faced racial slurs, verbal abuse, and confrontation by adult men merely for wearing a Make America Great Again hat.

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