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For the last week, many in academe have been debating comments made on Twitter by Saida Grundy, a new faculty member at Boston University, in which she said, “Why is white america [sic] so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?” Amid the debate, some have speculated about what would happen if a white professor made generalizations about black students. Would such a person immediately lose his job, or would he suffer no more than some criticism?
It turns out that as Grundy was facing scrutiny, many students and academics at Duke University were finding and becoming appalled by comments posted to a New York Times discussion board by a Duke political science professor, Jerry Hough.
In response to a New York Times editorial about racism's lingering impact on Baltimore, Hough rejected the analysis. After talking about political trends regarding issues of urban poverty, he wrote: "I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost nonexistent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white. It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state [sic]. King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.
full: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/18/duke-professors-comments-black-students-anger-many
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