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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

Professor Brittany Cooper’s Racism

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, reacts to an article in The College Fix, “Rutgers University Faculty Groups Support Prof Who Said White People ‘Gotta Be Taken Out.’” The article is about statements made by Dr. Brittany Cooper, a tenured associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers University—a university with formative ties to the Dutch Reformed Church. In a video interview with The Root, Professor Cooper implies that white people invented slavery and conquest, and that white people are “committed to being villains.” She also states, “The thing I want to say to you is that we gotta take these [expletive deleted] out, but like, we can’t say that, right? I don’t believe in a project of violence. I truly don’t, because in the end, I think our souls suffer from that. And I do think some of this is spiritual condition.” Elsewhere, she calls herself “a practicing Christian” and writes, “The Jesus I know, love, talk about and choose to retain was a radical, freedom-loving, justice-seeking, potentially queer (because he was either asexual or a priest married to a prostitute), feminist healer, unimpressed by scripture-quoters and religious law-keepers, seduced neither by power nor evil.” This ought to remind us once again that we are not to come up with our own novel interpretations of the word of God or the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3).



See “Rutgers University Faculty Groups Support Prof Who Said White People ‘Gotta Be Taken Out,’” The College Fix, November 7, 2021, https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-u-faculty-groups-support-prof-who-said-white-people-gotta-be-taken-out/.



Becket Adams, “No, White People Didn’t Invent Slavery and Conquest,” Washington Examiner, October 28, 2021, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-white-people-didnt-invent-slavery-and-conquest.



Brittany Cooper statements in “Unpacking the Attacks on Critical Race Theory,” The Root, YouTube, September 21, 2021, https://youtu.be/efjZqmVKm9Q.



Brittany Cooper @ProfessorCrunk, Twitter post, April 28, 2020,

https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk/status/1255116155599171589.



Brittany Cooper, “The Right’s Made-up God: How Bigots Invented a White Supremacist Jesus,” Salon, April 1, 2015, https://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_rights_made_up_god_how_bigots_invented_a_white_supremacist_jesus/.

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Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank unplugged short.

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An article by the college fixed staff caught my attention the other day.

1:25.8

It would catch your attention as well. It's titled Rutgers University

1:31.5

Faculty Groups Support Professor who said white people got to be taken out. The article is about

1:43.4

Brittany Cooper, who is a tenured associate professor at Rutgers

1:50.3

University. And it has to do with the video that she produced or a video that has been produced

1:58.7

in which Michael Harriet,

2:01.6

a calls Brittany Cooper one of the preeminent scholars in America.

2:10.6

Now, let me simply mention this, that Rutgers has formative ties to the Dutch Reformed Church. In this university,

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