Boston University Prof Regrets Disparaging Comments About Whites and Men
This is an update to a story we reported earlier this week.
USA Today reports.
Professor regrets calling white college males ‘a problem population’
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.”
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.”
Professor regrets calling white college males 'a problem population' (USA Today)
Comments
Grundy is not off to a good start at Boston, is she?
She doesn’t regret saying what she said. She only regrets saying it so bluntly.
I’m all in favor of being blunt. It allows you to see a person’s true character. In this case, she’s a racist that lives in a fantasy world where anybody who isn’t black has somehow made her a victim. She’s never been a slave, or been systematically discriminated against. She’s a whining elitist whose opinion isn’t worth the effort to listen to.
Hear, hear. This Obama presidency has been a breath of racist fresh air. We have now all witnessed, with proof galore, that the blacks are the miserable racists of the land, and that whites are really the current victim of this poisonous eruption from the sick brains of these congenital haters. Self pity and hatred of whites is their mother’s milk.
This has to be one of the most demonstrably insincere apologies in the history of public media.