Professor Urges Whites to Emulate Violent Radical Used by Antifa as Icon

A leftist Howard University professor urged white allies to emulate a pre-Civil War violent radical, now used by designated terrorist organization Antifa as a revolutionary icon.

Stacey Patton, a journalism professor at the Washington, DC-based university, posted a blog post, “John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally.”

Patton wrote , “So when white allies ask, ‘What can I do?’ here’s the answer: Be like John Brown. Ask yourself, what am I willing to burn so somebody else can breathe?”

Patton encouraged white allies to emulate John Brown, a militant slavery-era abolitionist who orchestrated the Pottawatomie massacre. Brown and his followers dragged five Kansas settlers, many of them sympathetic to slavery, out of their homes and killed them. Brown then led a