Posted on 06/20/2017 10:14:50 AM PDT by Cecily
A lecturer teaching slave history at the University of Tennessee Knoxville has been fired following a dispute with a black student who accused her of being racist.
Judy Morelock, a lecturer in the department of sociology, was terminated in April after the dispute with student Kayla Parker.
The argument was based on a multiple-choice exam question about the impact of slavery on African American families.
After the student challenged her teacher, Ms Parker says the lecturer unleashed a string of posts attacking the student on Facebook.
A spokeswoman for the university would not confirm why Morelock was removed part way through the semester and said the university was prohibited by federal law from discussing the exchange between Morelock and Parker, according to Knoxnews.
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Another example of why to not share your feewings on social media. Especially in a liberal dump like UT Knoxville, blacks are always gonna win.
White women aren't safe from the insane PC usually directed at White males these days.
What a STUPID argument! Was that the hill worth dying for?
It’s a badly worded question. C and D are not mutually exclusive. The student is obviously on a crusade, but the prof is not exactly impressive.
I think the professor is too emotionally invested in her “I am not a racist” bona fides. In any case, academic arguments like this one need to stay in the classroom and off of social media.
Stupid course, stupid question, ambiguously stupid choice of answers, stupid teacher prattling like a stupid lib caught in a web of stupid racial sensitivity promoted by stupid institutions of which she is a stupid cog in a stupid machine.
The student is just an opportunist who saw an opening and took it.
The stupidity lies in the system that charges money for and awards “degrees” for “course work” such as this.
Professor isn’t a racist, she’s just never wrong. A student had the audacity to question her and the professor became unhinged. Colleges are often little ivy covered North Koreas and professors are the infallible dear leaders.
No one, but no one, may ever accuse a professor of being wrong.
Things have sure changed since the mid seventies when I was in college. My professors actually encouraged debate!
At the risk of waxing Clintonian, it depends on the definition of “regularly”. Does regularly mean a majority of cases? Or that family breakup occurred at a steady pace whether rare or frequent? Or that it was handled smoothly under law?
I do not claim mastery of the entire body of knowledge on the subject, but suspect the poorly written question was designed to distinguish between conclusions based on research versus popular belief. That is of itself provocative, since African-American studies grapple with the relative evidentiary value of historical research (based on written records kept by the slave-owner class) versus oral histories, hearsay, political advocacy, and family traditions.
The student’s original question seemed reasonable, though I did not look at the subsequent back and forth. A professor who let this spiral out of control needed different work.
I ran across a fact that surprised me. . . and I consider myself well informed.
At the 1850 census the percentage of people in the South who were still slaves was less than 35% of the total number of people listed as being of negro ethnicity. The rest were counted as free. They still could not vote, but they were not slaves, and many of the freed men owned property or their own businesses.
He should have known that the White is always wrong. If a White says “peep” he’s racist and can be fired.
While I’m not much interested in this particular story, it is like big past time to be able to sue for slander and libel for spurious accusations of racism. A couple of successful lawsuits would go a long way to shutting this extortion down. Make them PROVE the racism charge.
This is probably the best assessment of the situation.
If this is going to be official policy I expect to Mass Expulsions of every Student that ever said or made critical remarks to any faculty members.
So what accounts for the freeman and how were they able to operate as landowners and business owners?
Several centuries of slave holders freeing their slaves for various reasons. Some of the slaves were freed en masse at the death of the slave holder in the last will and testament of the slave holder. . . and some of them inherited the land and holdings of their former masters. ironically, there were black plantation owners who themselves also owned slaves.
Some of these were just as in favor of continuing the institution of slavery as their white compatriots. Others were opposed to slavery, but that did not stop them from owning slaves. Economic pressures and competition make for strange bedfellows.
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