[VIDEO] Florida prof: Stand Your Ground law exists because Floridians 'fear black men as dangerous'

A university professor last month told students that the controversial "stand your ground" law, which became famous after the slaying of Florida youth Trayvon Martin, exists because Floridians "fear" African Americans.

"Why do we have this law?," asked Professor Vibert White, who teaches at the University of Central Florida. "Sadly, in Florida--historically--we fear African-American men as being dangerous."

WATCH: Professor says "stand your ground" laws exist because Floridians "fear" African Americans

 In the same class, White, also defended the historic role of the hate group, the Black Panthers, claiming it had "no history of attacking whites ever."

The liberal Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), however, classifies the New Black Panther Party as a hate group which encourages violence.

Professor Vilbert White told students that the controversial “stand your ground” law in Florida exists because people have a “fear” of African Americans.

 On its website, the SPLC describes the Panthers as a "virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers."

White, who was formerly an aide to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, made these comments in a lecture titled "Trayvon Martin: The Issue of race and the Death of the Civil Rights Movement."

 White's lecture later turned to capitalism, and how it acts as an obstacle to the goals of those who share his ideology.

White, a professor of black history, made headlines in 2008 for saying that an "open line" of communication existed between Louis Farrakhan and then-candidate Barack Obama.

"We become managers of the capitalist system," he said. "We suppress our own."



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