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| Black Professor Regrets Comments Critical Of White Students |
| 2015-05-13 |
| 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. Surely she does. She regrets she got called on it, maybe. She'll try to bury it deeper next time. 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." I'd like to see what would happen to a white professor who said that about blacks. 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." Boston University continued to distance itself from Grundy's racially charged tweets on Tuesday as its president penned an open letter to the campus, saying the comments were "hurtful." President Robert Brown acknowledged Grundy's right to hold and express her opinions but said her remarks unfairly "typecast" certain groups of people. He stopped short, though, of acknowledging the comments were directed almost exclusively at whites. "I do not say this lightly or without a great deal of consultation and soul-searching," Brown's letter reads. "I understand there is a broader context to Dr. Grundy's tweets and that, as a scholar, she has the right to pursue her research, formulate her views, and challenge the rest of us to think differently about race relations. But we also must recognize that words have power and the words in her Twitter feed were powerful in the way they stereotyped and condemned other people." The university, through a spokesman, had previously said it was "offended" by Grundy's statements, many of which were posted online at SoCawlege.com and then elsewhere. Critics decried the comments as offensive, racist and inappropriate for a professor preparing to teach at a large, racially diverse university. But supporters said the comments weren't racist. They started the hashtag #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." Brown, the university president, said Grundy will report for work on July 1. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #12 "Regret" <> Apology |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-05-13 20:50 |
| #11 "Dealwith your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a (asterisk)YALL(asterisk) thing," That comment shows such an appalling ignorance of world history it could only come from a recent graduate of an American university. "Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible." The problem, dear girl, is that what we think of as the modern world is pretty much the creation of white people. But feel free to boycott electricity, cars, medicine, computers and all that stuff you see in the grocery stores. That she does this on MLK* Day only adds irony. * "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-05-13 19:18 |
| #10 Sounds like we need to ship her racist ass to Zimbabwe where she belongs. Enjoy your 3rd world racist hellhole you fucking bitch. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-05-13 18:13 |
| #9 I needed a trigger warning prior to encountering this micro aggression against (old) white males and did not recieve one. Now, therefore, I feel hurt and need a safe space to rage against the good night while healing deep wounds to my unchosen identity. Would ammo be available should I need to eat my weapon?? |
| Posted by: Alpha2c 2015-05-13 17:37 |
| #8 Morons and social media generally produce embarrassing outcomes. This was no exception. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-13 17:20 |
| #7 Sound pretty racist to me...sounds like she thinks minorities don't know how to run a business. Mighty white of her to find 7/365 days to go searching for a minority business to spend $10 at. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-05-13 16:49 |
| #6 Sociology is one of those soft areas of study--never seemed to me to be particularly rigorous. Any fool/moron/charlatan in the field can express their opinion and get into the media. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-13 16:16 |
| #5 This woman's got some serious problems. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-13 16:11 |
| #4 Problem is she's to stupid to teach, not what age says. Moron Ask not for who the bell curves, it curves for thee. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-05-13 15:31 |
| #3 I'd hit her with a petition to ban hateful speech. She's obviously creating a hostile racial campus environment |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-13 15:11 |
| #2 Surely she does. She regrets she got called on it, maybe. She'll try to bury it deeper next time. Wanna bet her dedication to the cause been noted, and will be rewarded? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-13 14:19 |
| #1 "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." Oh, she'll be just fine. Howard Zinn taught at BU and he was treated like a god. Looks like there's a new lefty star in town... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2015-05-13 14:00 |