A Professor’s Facebook Post, A Campus Lockdown, and Calls To Let White People Die: Higher Education In 2017?

The president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, broke her silence late Wednesday afternoon about a sociology professor's anti-white social media posts, issuing a letter to the campus community hours after she shut the school down after school officials received threats.

President Joanne Berger-Sweeney in her letter acknowledged Professor Johnny Eric Williams's social media posts, made Friday night and first reported by CampusReform.com, in which he posted a link to an opinion article concerning last week's attempted massacre of several GOP lawmakers in Virginia and called for "the racially oppressed" to "put end to the vectors of their destructive mythology of whiteness and their white supremacy system." Williams emphasized his point with a hashtag — #LetThemF—ingDie. That also happens to be the title of the Medium.com piece he shared, but did not author.