Prof Claims Historically Black University Pressured Him to Discriminate
The alleged discrimination? “Racially discriminatory hiring practices” on non-black employees.
FIRE reports.
Black prof.: my historically black university pressured me to discriminate
No workplace is safe from discriminating employees, even historically black college and universities (HBCU).
James Pearce, the Director of Graduate Studies in the Language and Literature Department, has been in charge of hiring candidates at North Carolina Central University as a department chair since 2008. However, Pearce has complained the school pressured him to use “racially discriminatory hiring practices” on non-blacks employees.
Pearce has filed two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints because of the alleged discrimination: one in 2010 and the second in 2014 according to ABC11.
Pearce filed the second complaint with the EEOC because he believes that he lost out on becoming the chair of the Department of Language and Literature in retaliation for his complaints.
According to the Huffington Post, three former NCCU employees are also suing NCCU for racial mistreatment and allege that Chancellor Debra Saunders-White has been misusing school funding. The three former employees are Frank Smith and Kimberly Luse, both caucasian, and Marianne Murphy, who is of Cuban descent.
Black prof.: my historically black university pressured me to discriminate (FIRE)
Comments
Does this surprise …. anyone?
I mean, in PC land discrimination is “only a white person thing” – and when it is done TO whites, or other races, by a “person of color” no one wants to touch it.
I cannot tell you how many times, both in college (2 different colleges) and in my different places in employment during my life, if a white person complained about BLATANT racism by a “person of color” (or sexism by some feminist harpy) that NO ONE wanted to touch the complaint.
Known lesbian or gay making repeated attempts to seduce a straight co-worker, to the point of major harassment? Nope, don’t want to process that claim.
Known “I’m a victim” peron of color being racist? Nope, that’s just “you misunderstood him/her … I’ll talk to them”
White (male especially) person who said something that you’d have to be LOOKING / TRYING to be offended by : Oh, well, then it’s time to break out the counselling forms and discuss the subjective way the person was offended.