A professor at Syracuse University has drawn the ire of many after a series of controversial tweets that seem to make light of the September 11 terror attacks.
'It's twenty years since 9/11 and I'm still really disturbed by how many white pundits and correspondents talk about it,' wrote Jenn M. Jackson - who bills theirself as 'a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people' on twitter.
Jackson also called the attacks an offensive against 'heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems... that many white Americans fight to protect,' in a tweet to their 33,600 followers.
The assistant professor of political science made the remarks in a series of tweets Friday, a day before the 20th anniversary of the attacks that killed 2,977 people.
Jackson's personal website describes the professor as 'a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people'
'It's twenty years since 9/11 and I'm still really disturbed by how many white pundits and correspondents talk about it,' Jackson wrote to their 33,600 followers on Twitter
The educator called the attacks an offensive against 'heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems... that many white Americans fight to protect'
In one particular barrage of tweets, Jackson challenged former chief of staff Andy Card, who served in President George W. Bush administration during the attacks - and who first told the commander in chief that America was under attack on September 11, 2001.
The assistant professor of political science made the remarks in a series of tweets Friday, a day before the 20th anniversary of the attacks that killed 2,977 people
'I'm watching Andy Card and [Former Homeland Security Secretary] Jeh Johnson on MSNBC,' she wrote. 'Card just said that 9/11 was the first time that Americans ever felt fear. He said that it was the last morning we woke up without fear and that the "terrorists" succeeded in introducing us to fear.'
Jackson went on to criticize the notion.
'White Americans might not have really felt true fear before 9/11 because they never felt what it meant to be accessible, vulnerable, and on the receiving side of military violence at home. But, white Americans' experiences are not a stand-in for 'America,'' they wrote.
'Plenty of us Americans know what it's like to experience fear and we knew before 9/11. For a lot of us, we know fear *because* of other Americans,' Jackson continued.
'We have to be more honest about what 9/11 was and what it wasn't,' Jackson continued. 'It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity.'
The assistant professor of political science decided to single out Andy Card in a slew of tweets, insinuating the nation's former chief of staff - a white man - was out of touch when it came to Americans' reactions and interpretations of the September 11 terror attacks
'It was an attack on the systems many white Americans fight to protect.'
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