Syracuse Professor Trashes 9/11 Commentary, Says It Was An Attack on ‘Heteropatriarchal Capitalistic Systems’ Preferred By White Americans

Jenn M. Jackson, an assistant professor at Syracuse University’s political science department, took issue with the way people are discussing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

Jackson, who has a verified Twitter account and describes herself as “a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, [and] a lover of all Black people,” tweeted that she was “really disturbed by how many white pundits and correspondents talk about” 9/11. In now protected tweets, Jackson named only two “pundits and correspondents” – Andy Card and Jeh Johnson, who are neither pundits nor correspondents. Card was former President George W. Bush’s chief of staff on September 11, 2001, the man who delivered the devastating news to the president as he spoke to elementary school children in Florida. Johnson was the Secretary of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama.