A professor at Dalton State College has taken heat online and from some in the community for tweets he posted in 2017 and more recently amid racial unrest, police brutality and nationwide demonstrations.
Seth Weitz has been a history professor at Dalton State for 11 years. In that time, he’s taught classes on U.S. history, African American history, the Civil Rights Movement, Latin American history and Georgia history.
After the Charlottesville, Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally where James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters and killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal and civil rights activist, Weitz posted a profanity-filled series of tweets that criticized white people.
Fields was later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Following the white nationalist rally, Weitz tweeted “white people have had everything handed to them in this country since the 1500s.”