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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on June 26, 2017, 12:52:08 pm

Title: Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on June 26, 2017, 12:52:08 pm

Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
Washington Post, Jun 26, 2017, Samantha Schmidt

Earlier this month, political commentator Lisa Durden gave a fiery interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, defending a Black Lives Matter chapter’s decision to host a Memorial Day event exclusively for black people.

“Boo-hoo-hoo,” Lisa Durden, who is also an adjunct professor at Essex County College in Newark, said in the June 6 television appearance. “You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your ‘white privilege’ card to get invited to the Black Lives Matter’s all-black Memorial Day celebration.”

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Durden’s remarks spurred both criticism and praise on social media. But what happened less than 48 hours later prompted an even stronger reaction.

On June 8, with about a week left of her summer session of teaching, Durden’s employers at Essex County College suspended her. About two weeks later, Durden was fired from the community college.


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Title: Re: Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on June 26, 2017, 12:52:51 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0drWDLCfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0drWDLCfA

Title: Re: Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
Post by: Sanguine on June 26, 2017, 01:22:26 pm

That's the worst kind of disingenuousness:  equating getting fired with getting lynched. 

Title: Re: Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
Post by: Night Hides Not on June 26, 2017, 01:46:35 pm

Quote from: Sanguine on June 26, 2017, 01:22:26 pm

That's the worst kind of disingenuousness:  equating getting fired with getting lynched.

Yup, another card that's been overplayed.

A bit O/T, but back in December, I had the pleasure of meeting Charles Evers' family members...a friend of mine from college married into the family. Mr. Evers (brother of Medgar) grew up in a very different time, where "lynching" took on a completely different meaning. That "professor" deserved to be fired, if only for her gross misuse of the term.

Title: Re: Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
Post by: RetBobbyMI on June 26, 2017, 01:49:46 pm

Live by the race card, die by the race card.  8888crybaby