Posted on 01/31/2017 10:24:13 AM PST by csvset
NORFOLK
An Old Dominion University statistics professor has apologized for a strongly worded email that told a group of faculty, administrators and graduate students “screw you” and “you are not American” if they didn’t plan to attend any of a series of events centered around diversity.
Associate professor Norou Diawara sent the email to members of ODU’s Coalition of Black Faculty and Administrators and a list of statistics graduate students Monday afternoon saying he was “not happy at all, with the state of the affairs in the USA. It is very sad we have come to this level.”
He said he was encouraged that members of the community “can think rationally and not in denial mode” and listed several events occurring over the next couple of weeks. Then, Diawara closed out the email with a brief, all-caps screed.
“BUT REALLY SCREW YOU IF YOU CANNOT GO TO ANY OF THESE EVENTS. YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN,” he wrote, before signing “With Very Best Regards, Norou.”
Diawara listed four events, including Monday’s solidarity rally organized in response to President Donald Trump's recent executive action temporarily halting the U.S. refugee program and entry from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Also included in the list were events at the university's Intercultural Center, a lecture at next month's CBFA meeting and a meeting for black faculty and students in STEM fields to “build and strengthen informal and formal connections.”
In a brief phone conversation early Tuesday, Diawara confirmed that he had written the email. He also said he’d sent a follow-up email apologizing, but declined to share that email with a reporter.
The message was an effort to galvanize people, he said.
“We should not be sitting down and being passive,” he said. “I hope we can all take care of each other instead of being passive.”
He declined to comment further on the email or the response he had received.
The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Diawara is an associate professor of statistics at ODU and the president of the university’s Coalition of Black Faculty and Administrators. He holds a doctorate in mathematical statistics from Auburn University, a master's degree from the University of Southern Alabama, a master's from the University of Le Havre in France and a bachelor’s degree from University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, according to Diawara's bio on the university's website.
Perhaps he shouldn’t have signed it, “with very best regards”.
Senegal called
They are missing their idiot and want him back.
Degrees just mean you can study — this one is no doubt a savant.
“We should not be sitting down and being passive,” he said. “I hope we can all take care of each other instead of being passive.”
You are right, grasshopper. We “Americans” should take of ourselves by shipping your sorry ass outta here.
This guy is in a University??
Don’t do facebook or twitter, however, here is the professor’s school e-mail account.
A B.S.and a P.H.D. = Bull Shite Piled Higher and Deeper.
Is he a US citizen? Is he a Muslim?
>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
THE RESULTS OF LBJ’s “Great Society” and AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
See how stupid those ideas were????
Back in Africa, he’d be food.
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode about a cranky guy that hated everybody and was convinced that at a certain time on a certain day, everyone in the world EXCEPT HIM would shrink to only two feet tall.
The time came and nobody shrunk - except him. He became two feet tall.
Is this racist buffoon even a citizen ?
This is how schools abuse our children by propagandizing to them instead of teaching them life skills. Very few of these protesters are going to have happy, fulfilling lives. The creeps that use them don’t care. They are fodder.
diversity...
I HATE THAT WORD!!
And putting a tie on don’t make you smart
“This guy is in a University?”
Yep. Dumber than a bag of hammers, I bet, but “diversity” and affirmative action demand that universities hire people based upon the color of their skin rather than the content of their character or intellectual abilities/accomplishments.
This turd has the nerve to let Americans they are not Americans because they don’t agree with him? Fire his ass now.
This turd has the nerve to let Americans they are not Americans because they don’t agree with him? Fire his ass now.
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