Butch Ware

Butch Ware
Ware in 2024
Born1974 (age 49–50)
United States
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Political partyGreen

Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III (born 1974) is an American associate professor, hip hop artist, and the 2024 vice presidential nominee for the Green Party. He is one half of the hip hop duo Slum Prophecy.

Education

Ware received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota in 1997.[1] He received his PhD in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

Career

A historian of West Africa at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he first began teaching at Northwestern University, and later at the University of Michigan.[3][4]

Ware is also one half of the hip hop duo Slum Prophecy. Less than two weeks before he began running for vice president, Slum Prophecy released an album titled "Aqsa Flood".

In August, he was selected by Jill Stein as the vice presidential nominee of the Green Party in the 2024 United States presidential election.[5]

Political positions

Israel–Hamas war

Ware has likened Hamas's 2023 surprise attack on Israel to Nat Turner's Rebellion, viewing Hamas as a resistance group against Israel's illegal occupation.[6] On October 11, tweeted his support for the resistance, posting that "...Oppressed people don’t have a RIGHT to resist occupation, we have a RESPONSIBILITY to resist."[7]

Informed by the Black radical tradition, Ware is an anti-Zionist and has equated Zionism to white supremacy.[8]

LGBT+ rights

In a video published to social media by political commentator Olayemi Olurin in November 2024, Ware seemingly expressed his opposition to allowing transgender women to participate in women's sports, stating: "I don't think that biological males should play in female sports. I think it gives an unfair [...] competitive advantage."[9]

He has stated that his comments were taken out of context, Tweeting, "The remarks in question, presented in a hostile interview, were misrepresented through selective editing to suggest otherwise. In context, I was engaging in what I thought was a discussion of a nuanced policy on Olympic inclusion based on information shared by the IOC, not making a statement against trans inclusion."[10]

Discography

  • Aqsa Flood (2024)

Selected publications

  • Ware, Rudolph T.; Wright, Zachary Valentine; Syed, Amir (2018). Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-863-5.[11]
  • Ware, Rudolph T. (2014). The Walking Qurʼan: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-1431-1. Project MUSE book 31232.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Meet Butch - Jill Stein 2024". Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "Butch Ware – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  3. ^ "EIHS Lecture: 'Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800'". U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (Press release).
  4. ^ Ebbiary, Alyaa (November 16, 2022). "Prof. Rudolph Bilal Ware". Journal of Education in Muslim Societies. 4 (1). ISSN 2641-0052.
  5. ^ Buchman, Cassie (August 16, 2024). "Green Party candidate Jill Stein selects Dr. Butch Ware as running mate". NewsNation. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  6. ^ Mallon, Elaine (October 8, 2024). "Jill Stein running mate likens Oct. 7 attack against Israel to Nat Turner's Rebellion - Washington Examiner". Retrieved November 3, 2024.
  7. ^ Staff, J. I. (October 28, 2024). "Jill Stein's running mate celebrated violence against Israelis". Jewish Insider. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  8. ^ Middle East Eye (May 11, 2024). How exemplary violence is used by colonisers and is being used in Gaza | Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC. Retrieved November 3, 2024 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Ring, Trudy (November 1, 2024). "Jill Stein's running mate, Butch Ware, makes transphobic remarks". The Advocate. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  10. ^ Ware, Buch (November 2, 2024). "My full statement as a single thread:". Twitter. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
  11. ^ Reviews of Jihad of the Pen:
  12. ^ Reviews of The Walking Qur'an:
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