Three white college students file racial discrimination complaint against (black) professor

[MrScorpio]

Three white college students file racial discrimination complaint against professor over lesson on structural racism

One of the students allegedly asked professor Shannon Gibney, "Why do we have to talk about this?" VIDEO

KATIE MCDONOUGH

A black female professor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College was formally reprimanded by school officials after three of her white male students were upset by a lesson she taught on structural racism.

Shannon Gibney says that the students reacted in a hostile manner to the lesson in her Introduction to Mass Communication class, with one of them asking her, “Why do we have to talk about this in every class? Why do we have to talk about this?”

“His whole demeanor was very defensive. He was taking it personally. I tried to explain, of course, in a reasonable manner — as reasonable as I could given the fact that I was being interrupted and put on the spot in the middle of class — that this is unfortunately the context of 21st century America,” she explained in an interview with City College News.

Gibney says that, after this initial comment, another white male student said, “Yeah, I don’t get this either. It’s like people are trying to say that white men are always the villains, the bad guys. Why do we have to say this?” These students continued to argue and disrupt the lesson until Gibney told them that if they were troubled by her handling of the subject, they could file an official complaint with the school’s legal affairs department.

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/02/three_white_college_students_file_racial_discrimination_complaint_against_professor_over_lesson_on_structural_racism/

[Scuba]

1. Priviledged white pricks don't get it. No surprise there.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Little

snotty pricks.

[Starry Messenger]

3. Shame on the college for siding with them and reprimanding her.

Time for petitions. X(

[M0rpheus]

4. She wrote this over the weekend...

http://gawker.com/teaching-while-black-and-blue-1473659925

I am waiting for a letter to arrive in the mail. It will be short, no more than one page, and will be covered in black ink, with the occasional flourish of institutional logo. The signature at the bottom will belong to a high-ranking officer at my Midwestern college of 12,000 students, and the words that preface it will briefly explain the method and, more importantly, the verdict, of an almost three-week long investigation, in which students, faculty, and staff were questioned by the school’s legal staff as to if, in fact, I had committed acts constituting an official case of racial harassment.

What happened to me in 2008 did not happen because I am a young, Black female faculty member at school that has over 50 percent students of color; what happened to me occurred because I turned the world backwards on an angry White male student. We were in a regular weekly meeting of the newspaper staff, and the students were discussing the fact of the new edition, how well it had turned out, and the editor-in-chief said that although he was proud of the paper’s developments, he was not pleased with the fact that so few students regularly picked up the publication. Theories were thrown around as to why this was—the aesthetics were all wrong, the design didn’t pop, the stories could be flashier. Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a noose hanging from the ceiling. When I looked again, it was gone.

Another white male student, angry that writers had not made deadline, had thought it prudent to make a noose of his sweatshirt drawstring the fall before, to step up on the table and hang it, along with a menacing note to writers about the seriousness of deadlines. The two Black students in the room at the time protested, and asked him to take the noose down, but he didn’t listen.

An interesting read from her side.

[Number23]

5. What?? White people defensive about discussing racism and white privilege?!

The hell you say!

The students then filed a complaint, and Gibney was formally reprimanded by the school’s vice president of academic affairs for creating a ”hostile learning environment” for trying to educate her students about the existence and operations of structural racism.

Glad to hear that she is suing. But I have a feeling she will have been fired for some time by then.

[onpatrol98]

9. Defensive...No, surely not

Say it ain't so...

[heaven05]

6. with rush limpig, beckerhead, o'really?

guiding the thought processes of these young(I assume) white males who feel that they can be angry and fight back at their perception of the injustice at losing their assumed white privilege and entitlement(s) because of black and brown people. I am not surprised they filed this discrimination suit. They'll probably win and this professor will lose her job and because of that loss, never be able to teach again. Negative job rating is still a reality in a case such as this. This college is a sham, like most amerikkkan institutions.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. I wonder why

Those posts up above were removed. Maybe that duck dynasty guy infiltrated? Noticed a few threads in this group like that lately. Hmmm . . .

[MrScorpio]

11. This place is so troll infested at times that I really don't give a damn anymore

Besides, I never report them anyway.

I just toy with the ones that I come across for kicks.