Posted on 06/24/2017 6:10:00 PM PDT by jazusamo
Essex County College has fired adjunct professor Lisa Durden after she made racially insensitive comments in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, according to a new report by the Associated Press.
The college’s president, Anthony Munroe, announced the decision Friday, two weeks after Durden went on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss an “all-black Memorial Day celebration” hosted by a Black Lives Matter group.
When asked by Carlson about the event, Durden interrupted the host, saying “boo hoo hoo. You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your white privilege card to get invited” to the Black Lives Matter event.
“You’re demented, actually,” Tucker later responded to her defense.
Durden went on to call America a “racist society.”
According to AP, Durden was suspended with pay on June 8, two days after the interview aired, when college officials say they received complaints about her comments. After a Tuesday meeting with college officials, she was fired.
Durden said the college “publicly lynched” her.
Munroe said that Essex College “supports and affirms the right of free speech and independent views and expressions of those views” for their faculty and staff," but Durden's "potential impact on students" required an immediate review that led to her firing.
Durden’s lawyer, Leslie Farber, said that Durden may have had her rights to free speech violated, and that they were considering legal action.
“The character of this institution mandates that we embrace diversity, inclusion, and unity. Racism cannot be fought with more racism,” Munroe wrote in a statement announcing Durden’s firing.
Durden compared her experience to that of a rape victim blamed for the crime, or a person returning to a hostile environment from war.
This guy is a punk to take her this s**t. She diverted and evaded every damn question he asked, responding with gibberish..He should have have cut the camera feed.
I don’t watch this garbage on a regular basis, but based on this piece, it’s clearly become an embarrassing spectacle.
She's definitely a racist. Racists come in all colors. This black woman is an evil racist. Restricting an event to only black people is racist. Has she ever considered how she would feel if an event was restricted to only white people and she was barred from attending? Does she feel that isn't racist? This black woman is letting her emotions cloud her judgment.
What did this woman have to complain about?She's (half)black and it's your fault she's not all black...or all white?
Is Durden wearing dyed Spaghettio-O’s in her hair or does she just have a bad case of Ringworm?
Ex-professor....
Rap music.
Don’t laugh.
Listen to some of the hateful violent songs lyrics.
Make it the only thing you listen to 24/7/365. For years.
See if it doesnt affect your outlook on things.
Tucker is a one man wrecking crew:)
“An IQ of 102 ...”
No way that racist N Beotch is in triple digits. Her whole world is all about anti-white & Victimhood. F that N B!
I think the reporter misunderstood the answer when she asked the prof what her IQ was.
“Mize eye Q? Yo I be down with that - it be a one or two.”
I beez smart.
Been saying the same thing for years.
Yeah, it has an effect.
I never thought I’d say “What IS that garbage you’re listening to?”.
Garbage would be a step up.
She’s obviously mentally-disturbed. It is probably not safe to be around her.
When is “White Day”? I must not be getting the memos.
Of course, I always miss out on the Heterosexual Pride Marches, too.
I better ping some folks!!!
It made a good record to show just how insane some folks are.
She might as well be the Black KKK. She’s an absolute kook.
And now she will forever be known as the idiot she is, now.
YES! You post the bare-faced truth about all of these “special” privileges awarded on nothing but skin color and America has reaped a whirlwind because of it. How about a little vetting of IQ, character and potential.
Memos?
Dude, I put you on the candy-gram list, every 24 hours/365, 366 on the Leap.
Don't tell me you're not getting them?
Damn Amazon anyway!!
Demented isn't all bad.
Long as she doesn't know where you live.
What about the thousands that went before her? It's their fault since they made is appear that nothing you say can get you fired.
Twits all think that the 1st is a one-way street and are taken aback when they have to face the music.
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