Law professor who wore Black Lives Matter shirt to class has a long trail of student grievances

The College Fix ^ | 7/22/2016 | Samantha Figueroa

[Hube]

When a law professor wore a Black Lives Matter shirt to class earlier this year, she saw it as a teaching tool and exercise in academic freedom.

Some of her “concerned students” saw the gesture as an attempt to push her “personal beliefs” on them, but also a threat to their ability to become practicing lawyers – and told her so in a much-derided memo.

The incident was revived this month after Inside Higher Ed confirmed the institution was southern California’s Whittier Law School, whose student body is majority-minority, and the professor was Patricia Leary.

Though Leary’s public critique of the anonymous memo has drawn most of the attention, the students’ deeper anxieties have been overshadowed: Whittier’s bar passage rate is plummeting.

And if new accreditation standards under review at the American Bar Association are implemented, the value of students’ degrees from the $46,000-a-year institution may be imperiled.

Leary’s months-old rebuke of her students went viral after Black Lives Matter protests against police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota in early July, according to Inside Higher Ed.

The anonymous students had written a memo and slid it under her door, Leary told the Whittier community in a message that included both the students’ memo and her response.

[Huskrrrr]

A faculty member at the college I teach at has a Black Lives Matter sign on her door. It’s all I can do to restrain myself from asking her “Why is it that you support a organization that practices terrorism?”

[Arm_Bears]

What would the reaction have been had the “professor” worn, say, a “Jesus Lives” t-shirt?

[Gaffer]

I’ll bet you she’s also some kind of LGBTQ supporter.

[rlmorel]

I guess I would get a poor grade from her if I wore a shirt to class (in an attempt to participate in the "educational process") that said:

BLACK LIVES MATTER
MEMBERS ARE:

1: Useful Idiots
2. Racists
3. Murderers

[Robert A Cook PE]

Focus on her (??) BLM racism, not the more emotional “terrorism” aspect. Yes, they ARE terrorists and endorse terrorist acts in killing more police officers.

But focus on the FALSE BLM narrative of their poster children: Martin, Grey, Baltimore, NYC, Chicago’s murder rate - which they DO NOT care about!, and the lies maintained by their supporters in every speech and by Obola.

[DPMD]

The usual crap: It’s “academic freedom” when the individual bows to leftist agitprop, but “hate speech,” “terrorism,” “trauma,” and “get me a safe space” when a conservative view is displayed.

[bjorn14]

I might show up on Monday morn class and announced XX nuber of blacks died this weekend in Clhicago, Baltimore, Detroint, etc. at the hands of their neighbhors.