Egyptologist and social historian Kara Cooney wrote a new book titled, “The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World,” in which she claims that Kyle Rittenhouse killed ‘two black men” in Kenosha, Wisconsin during the summer of 2020.
National Geographic Press published “The Good Kings…” for Cooney, a UCLA professor on Nov. 2, 2021.
On page 341 of the book, Cooney writes, “Or consider 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who used his semiautomatic weapon to kill two Black men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while waging a glorious race war on behalf of his inherited White power.”
“That’s not to mention the White people who rallied behind him to post his bail,” she continues. “Fear has grabbed the patriarchy, and the threat of righteous violence — or the lethal use of it — is the patriarchy’s response.”
I’m literally wheezing this is so funny 😂🤣 this is the last chapter of “Good Kings” by Egyptologist Kara Cooney. I’ll say this delicately… she’s not the brightest and it shows. pic.twitter.com/YoI4sGGM49
— Kara McKinney OANN (@Nefertari_25) January 5, 2022
Thousands of users on social media have pointed out the obvious error to Ms. Cooney.
The two men fatally shot by Rittenhouse, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, were WHITE, not Black. Both were convicted felons as well.
Rosenbaum was a convicted child molester who was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2002.
Huber was convicted of domestic abuse and disorderly conduct in 2018. But he received his felony conviction for attempting to choke his own brother in 2012.
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In the end, Rittenhouse killed a WHITE sex offender and a WHITE domestic abuser. None of the facts support Cooney’s assumption that the teen’s actions were part of some “glorious race war.”
Rather, the facts of the case indicate that Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. A jury of his peers affirmed that conclusion, finding the teen not guilty on all counts after four days of deliberation back in Nov.
On Twitter, Cooney apologized for the mistake but was quick to flip the script and attack those who criticized her for botching the details of the Rittenhouse case.
On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.
— Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) January 5, 2022
So yeah, tiny detail of the book with a big mistake about a massive American issue. And that’s on me. But the white supremacy is still a problem. And the misogyny is still a problem.
— Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) January 5, 2022
Apparently, that wasn’t the only error in the book.
Cooney also misstated what happened to Rosa Parks, as Kara McKinney, the host of Tipping Point on One America News Network (OANN), noted on Twitter.
Another error: Rosa Parks did not sit in white section of bus. She refused to give up seat to a white passenger when the white section filled up. You’d think @NatGeo would have better editors? https://t.co/jiVtgrvnQQ pic.twitter.com/39sEKWZknm
— Kara McKinney OANN (@Nefertari_25) January 5, 2022