The Political Hat

     The professor at a Minnesota community college, who was reprimanded for creating a racial hostile environment after White students complained about her rants about “structural racism,” has penned her own personal response to the incident.  Her statement makes it very clear that she can never ob objective, and sees everything through a racial lens.

     She begins be declaring that she was being punished for turning “the world backwards on an angry White male student.”  Her pseudo-stream-of-conscious diatribe recalls how at an editorial meeting made a noose out of a sweatshirt with a note about the importance of deadlines.  The professor took this as necessarily racist, and then harangued the editorial staff about power, privilege, and violence!

     The “White male” editor took umbrage to this and wrote to the professor, stating that her accusations were hateful, and that if she continued such a harangue in the future, she would not be welcome.  At this, the professor went into “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” mode:

“I checked the windows to make sure they were locked, closed my eyes and began to count to 20 slowly. The thing is, I was never supposed to be there; these institutions were not built for Black women, or anyone of color for that matter, to live or work in. In fact, they were built to keep us out. I know this, intellectually, being a student of history, but every time I come up against the blunt-end truth of it, I still shiver.”

     She then wrote a “dispassionate” response, which she carbon copied to a plethora of other people, where she continued to rant about how that editor need to “educate himself about the history of race and white privilege in this country,” while explicitly refusing to apologize.  In other words, she doubled-down, and preferred “to restructure the conversation from an individual critique to systemic and structural critique.”

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