That’s what is so warped; that the guy takes a kernel of truth, that whites feel safer than blacks and then proceeds to twist and distort it.
This warped, twisted logic is called "satire". Today, we indicate that a text should be understood as satire by adding /s at the end. For the past 300 years, satire was often indicated by using "A modest proposal" in the title, as Randomex wrote above.
This derives from a 1720s essay by Jonathan Swift, "A modest proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick."
Swift begins with a sympathetic description of the poverty in which Irish children grow up, then explains how wealthy Englishmen can help them: Buy their babies. "A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled..."
Swift continues to write a serious essay with evidence to bolster his point, but it's obvious to any reader that he is using humor to make a point.
Gerald Early is also using satirical humor to make his point. The Chronicle of Higher Education asked college professors, administrators and staff to comment on whether colleges should reopen in the fall. Professor Early's essay takes the usual concern about safety and turns it on its head, suggesting that unsafety is the very reason to reopen, so that wealthy white students could learn about the everyday feelings of African Americans.
His intended audience would be familiar with Swift's essay, and he emphasizes that his proposal is meant satirically, both by using Swift's title, and by writing in his final sentence that he does
not modestly propose such retribution, but that considering this is an "exercise in empathy."