As Executive Director of the Tracing Center, James DeWolf Perry has devoted a major portion of his life to educating Americans about the horrors of slavery. He was “nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as the principal historical consultant for our PBS documentary, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.” He is, in other words, the perfect white liberal. You might think this would win him some points with hard-core leftist Azealia Banks, a singer/songwriter. Not exactly. Read her harangues below, then see how Mr. White Liberal responded.
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@AZEALIABANKS Thanks for asking. No, I'm not making any money from documenting the DeWolf family's slave trading past.
— James DeWolf Perry (@JDeWPerry) December 26, 2014
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@AZEALIABANKS You're talking about my work, and whether ppl need educating. I agree that white people aren't the ones suffering here
— James DeWolf Perry (@JDeWPerry) December 26, 2014
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We think this guy enjoys being Banks’ punching bag:
@AZEALIABANKS Yeah, I hate that smiling picture of me, too. I imagine it seems obnoxious.
— James DeWolf Perry (@JDeWPerry) December 26, 2014
@AZEALIABANKS I'm a white person who agrees with everything you're saying about history, and about racial reality today. What exactly (cont)
— James DeWolf Perry (@JDeWPerry) December 26, 2014
@AZEALIABANKS … do you think I've done? Aside from educating white people about the ideas you're tweeting about right now?
— James DeWolf Perry (@JDeWPerry) December 26, 2014
@ImaFlyMalcolmX If you want the $$, I truly believe more Americans have to un-learn their history of race, to see it how @AZEALIABANKS does
— James DeWolf Perry (@JDeWPerry) December 26, 2014
Pathetic.
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