“Deal with your sh*t, white people”: Professor ignites a right-wing firestorm over “white college males as a problem”
Two recent university controversies have sparked discussion on just who can be racist and sexist
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Spirited, frequently heated philosophical and political debates are the hallmarks of academia, and this week has been a particularly colorful one for some real corkers. But if there’s one thing we can all agree on, can it be that social media brings out the worst in everybody?
You’ve likely already heard about the kerfuffle out of Boston University after University of Massachusetts Amherst student Nick Pappas posted the recent tweets of newly installed African American Studies professor Dr. Saida Grundy on his site called SoCawlege. Grundy has been outspoken, to say the least, noting in the past few weeks that “NO race outside of the europeans had a system that made slavery ‘personhood’ instead of temporary condition… there is also no race except europeans who kidnapped and transported human beings in order to elusive them and their offspring for life… in other words, deal with your sh*t, white people. slavery is YALL thing.” She also asked, “Why is white america so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem?”
There appears to be a lot of stuff in Grundy’s now protected Twitter feed that does not look like the work of an educator with a preference for rigorous investigation over sweeping generalization. In March she called St. Patrick’s Day “the white people’s kwanza” and “completely made up,” apparently unconcerned with how Catholic saint’s feast days work. In April she said that Rand Paul was “not a med school graduate” — ignoring while his academic career was unorthodox, he did finish med school. Later in the month, she posted a series of tweets about Bruce Jenner’s “white cis male privilege” and announced, “Dear white people: u are all Ben Affleck. those euphemisms for ur ancestors like ‘farmers’ and ‘pioneers’ means you owned humans and killed natives.”
Observing the posts, SoCawlege asked, “If you are going to work at Boston University you have to teach college aged white males eventually no? You probably already have/are working with them. To us, this seems like you are unqualified to grade their work as you clearly demonstrate some kind of special bias against them. They are a ‘problem population’ after all.” And right wing media quickly went expectedly berserk, with Fox calling Grundy’s remarks “racist” and writer David Horowitz opining that “Anti-white racism is rampant in Black Studies programs which are generally indoctrination programs in left wing politics.”
