UCLA politics department condemns white lecturer for reading n-word, showing documentary addressing lynching
The University of California Los Angeles has launched an inquiry into a teacher for reading aloud Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" because the civil rights document includes the n-word.
In a department-wide email obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon, UCLA political science chair Michael Chwe and two other department leaders condemned lecturer W. Ajax Peris's use of the racially incendiary word in a lecture he was delivering about the history of racism against African Americans. UCLA officials said the department referred Peris, an Air Force veteran, to the university's Discrimination Prevention Office (DPO) and urged students to come forward with complaints. The email also faulted the postdoctoral lecturer for showing a documentary to the class in which a lynching is described and not stopping the presentation when students complained.
"The lecturer also showed a portion of a documentary which included graphic images and descriptions of lynching, with a narrator who quoted the n-word in explaining the history of lynching. Many students expressed distress and anger regarding the lecture and the lecturer's response to their concerns during the lecture," said the letter, which was signed by Chwe, vice chair for graduate studies Lorrie Frasure, and vice chair for undergraduate studies Chris Tausanovitch. "We share students' concerns that the lecturer did not simply pause and reassess their teaching pedagogy to meet the students' needs."
In a video taken by a UCLA student, Peris, who is white, can be heard reading King's celebrated letter written in the aftermath of the civil rights leader's arrest for demonstrating against Jim Crow laws. The letter was read in tandem with his lecture on the history of racism against African Americans in the United States.
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ReplyDeleteOk. The documentary was a bit much. But reading the exact words from Dr. King? What, now everything written before 1965 needs to be sanitized? If the Proff was African American, would it have been an issue?
ReplyDeleteSo Let me see if I understand, by this logic, the peaceful Civil Rights leader MLK, Jr. wrote a racist piece on Racism? And snowflake children who got participation trophies all their lives got their feelings hurt so now the professor who read said piece is a racist for reading and not editing the Civil Rights leader piece? Wow and these are the "great" institutions who teach the snowflakes. What a crazy upside down world
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DeleteHe was trying to show, IN CONTEXT, what a lynching really is. Good for him.
ReplyDeleteLiberalism is satanism. Time to start clearing the ranks.
Feelings getting hurt again.
ReplyDeleteWOW!
I had to read "Letters from a Birmingham Jail" in college, it really takes you into Dr. King's mind and shows just how deep of an understanding that he had of philosophy by the references that he makes in it.
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