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An incoming Boston University professor who called “white college males” a “problem population” and was publicly criticized by the university’s president said on Tuesday she regrets making the remarks.
Black sociology professor Saida Grundy, who completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan last year, had declared on her now-private Twitter account that “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.”
In other recent tweets, she said, “Deal with your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a (asterisk)YALL(asterisk) thing,” and “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible.”
Grundy on Tuesday said events in the United States over the past year have made “the inconvenient matter of race” an unavoidable topic, but she expressed remorse over what she had said.
“I regret that my personal passion about issues surrounding these events led me to speak about them indelicately,” she said in a statement. “I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve.”
I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve
Incoming professor regrets calling white college males ‘a problem population’ | USA TODAY College
Yet, still is going to be teaching at Boston University, which is ridiculous. It's pretty obvious she hasn't exactly put in the level of academic research into her b.s. statement in the first place (hint: it isn't white masculinity that is the problem for American colleges, it's a culture of boozing and sex).
Anyways, the biggest issue, how can she be expected to be impartial at all in the classroom? Hell to even give all the "nuance and complexity?" When you go so far as to avoid white businesses during MLK week, I fail to see how you can be expected to give students fair treatment in your classroom, especially if they dare disagree with what you believe.
She regrets being heard, isn't that ironic. Of course, we have a whole class of people who do nothing but try to find people saying something they disagree with. Outrage is become a national obsession.
Brown, the university president, said Grundy will report for work on July 1.
But supporters said the comments weren’t racist. They started the hashtag (hash)IStandWithSaida and launched an online petition that notes the university, the largest in Massachusetts in terms of enrollment, is the place where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned his doctorate.
“Racism extends to virtually every institution in American society – including higher education,” the petition reads. “Calling Professor Grundy’s tweets racist minimizes the very real effects of racism for people of color in the United States.”
Sure, she seems a hateful jerk. But, if she wants to be and attracts tuitions to the school? Call her an bigot. Show the numbers. Laugh in her face. But she can say, what she likes.
Incoming professor regrets calling white college males ‘a problem population’ | USA TODAY College
Yet, still is going to be teaching at Boston University, which is ridiculous. It's pretty obvious she hasn't exactly put in the level of academic research into her b.s. statement in the first place (hint: it isn't white masculinity that is the problem for American colleges, it's a culture of boozing and sex).
Anyways, the biggest issue, how can she be expected to be impartial at all in the classroom? Hell to even give all the "nuance and complexity?" When you go so far as to avoid white businesses during MLK week, I fail to see how you can be expected to give students fair treatment in your classroom, especially if they dare disagree with what you believe.
“I regret that my personal passion about issues surrounding these events led me to speak about them indelicately,” she said in a statement. “I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve.”
She regrets being heard, isn't that ironic. Of course, we have a whole class of people who do nothing but try to find people saying something they disagree with. Outrage is become a national obsession.
Sure, she seems a hateful jerk. But, if she wants to be and attracts tuitions to the school? Call her an bigot. Show the numbers. Laugh in her face. But she can say, what she likes.
if she was white and said those things about black people she would be fired instantly no questions asked.
if it was a white student that said those things they would be dismissed instantly.
the hypocrisy of the situation is amazing and the double standard of racism as long as it isn't white racism is for some reason tolerable.
Oh, no question that our society is somewhat sick.
Incoming professor regrets calling white college males ‘a problem population’ | USA TODAY College
Yet, still is going to be teaching at Boston University, which is ridiculous. It's pretty obvious she hasn't exactly put in the level of academic research into her b.s. statement in the first place (hint: it isn't white masculinity that is the problem for American colleges, it's a culture of boozing and sex).
Anyways, the biggest issue, how can she be expected to be impartial at all in the classroom? Hell to even give all the "nuance and complexity?" When you go so far as to avoid white businesses during MLK week, I fail to see how you can be expected to give students fair treatment in your classroom, especially if they dare disagree with what you believe.
The threat title should be changed to "professor regrets being held accountable for calling white college males a problem population".
She still believes whites are THE problem, and I'm sure she has learned her lesson to make her racist statements in a less public forum the next time, and to continue her racist behavior more subtlety in the future.
It is odd that this womans comments are somehow far worse.
School director fired after racial graduation comment
****ty ass double standard. The crap needs to stop on all fronts, and this professor should not be protected just because she said it about white people.
That professor's comments were bad and I think a firing would be justified. But that principal's comments WERE far wrose.
The professor was spouting off her stupid bigotry on her personal twitter account about white males in general. The Principal, spouted her hatred at actual families in person at an official function in her capacity as the head of the school.
They are both bad, but it is blatantly obvious which is worse.
Hopefully she's learned her lesson and will express future sentiments using a platform that can make use of the proper complexity and nuance. Like Reddit.
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