Drexel University: Professor Ciccariello-Maher’s ‘White Genocide’ Tweet ‘Utterly Reprehensible’

Drexel University President John Fry speaks during a news conference at Drexel University, Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano announced several universities including Drexel were selected to participate in the federal agency’s Campus Resilience Pilot Program, in which schools formulate replicable responses to man-made or natural disasters. (Photo: AP/Associated Press)

Drexel University is responding in damage control after Professor George Ciccariello-Maher tweeted on Sunday, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” He Twitter account was locked and the tweet, pictured in a screenshot below, was deleted.

A tweet from the account of George Ciccariello-Maher, an associated professor of political science at Drexel University, called for ‘White Genocide’ as a Christmas wish.

“While the University recognizes the right of its faculty to freely express their thoughts and opinions in public debate, Professor Ciccariello-Maher’s comments are utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing, and do not in any way reflect the values of the University,” Drexel University said in a statement Sunday afternoon,. “The University is taking this situation very seriously. We contacted Ciccariello-Maher today to arrange a meeting to discuss this matter in detail.”

It isn’t the first time Ciccariello-Maher, who is an associate professor of political science, called for whites to be massacred. He said his tweet was a joke and that “white isn’t a race.”

“Yacub made a lot of white folks,” the professor tweeted February 3, 2013, the website reported before his account was locked. It’s a reference to a belief held and taught by theology in the Nation of Islam, which claims white people were created as a “race of devils” by Yacub, a scientist.