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Associate professor of religion and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. Butler’s new piece for The Washington Post is called “Shooters of color are called 'terrorists' and 'thugs.' Why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'?”