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Columbia Student Complains About Professor Saying 'Negro' During Lesson About 1960’s
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 6, 2018 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 04/06/2018 2:40:01 PM PDT by Zakeet

A Columbia University student publicly complained about her professor using the word "Negro," even though he said it in a lesson about 1960s America.

The Columbia Daily Spector ran a story Thursday about what happens "when professors make racially insensitive remarks." The paper cited a complaint by student Maria Fernanda Martinez of a perceived "microagression." Martinez said her professor told the class it was appropriate to use the term "Negro" when discussing the 1960's, a time when that was the politically correct term for African-Americans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; columbia; education; karma; negression; politicallycorrect; racism
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To: tuffydoodle

Spalding:”It’s the BEST, man, I got it from a negro.”


21 posted on 04/06/2018 3:08:13 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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To: Liberal Anti Venom
Yesterday someone got in trouble for saying Colored people when refering to the 60s culture. Guess we should just say HEY YOU
22 posted on 04/06/2018 3:08:42 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: miss marmelstein

It’s a good thing they weren’t a math major.

Imagine their reaction to reverse Polish notation.


23 posted on 04/06/2018 3:08:58 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Darksheare

Bet she wouldn’t turn down money from The United Negro College Fund.

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24 posted on 04/06/2018 3:09:38 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Catmom

Imagine my reaction to a math comparison!!! Math sends me to the safe room!


25 posted on 04/06/2018 3:10:52 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Zakeet

Well, we still have the United Negro College Fund and - of course - rappers use the “N” word all the time.


26 posted on 04/06/2018 3:12:41 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Zakeet

Remember the controversy a few years ago about use of the word “niggardly” by some professor?


27 posted on 04/06/2018 3:14:09 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: tuffydoodle

“United negro college fund”.

Negro, negro, negro,
Negro, negro, negro,
Negro, negro, negro,
Negro, negro, negro......


28 posted on 04/06/2018 3:18:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Zakeet

Negro is what the Kenyanesian Usurper’s birth certificate would say for father’s race if it was genuine.


29 posted on 04/06/2018 3:21:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Zakeet

Some people simply don’t belong in college.


30 posted on 04/06/2018 3:23:05 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Zakeet

He’s not a Magic Negro he’s a butter fingered black.


31 posted on 04/06/2018 3:25:09 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: realcleanguy

It’d be nice, wouldn’t it?


32 posted on 04/06/2018 3:26:22 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Zakeet

Would he complain if he got a scholarship from the United Negro College Fund?


33 posted on 04/06/2018 3:26:47 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: shelterguy

White is a color.


34 posted on 04/06/2018 3:29:44 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Zakeet

Would they cut off relations with Montenegro?


35 posted on 04/06/2018 3:31:13 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear (AND)
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To: cranked

“The paper cited a complaint by student Maria Fernanda Martinez of a perceived “microagression.”

Wonder how she’d like a macroaggression?

No snot, you can’t set the terms of language.


36 posted on 04/06/2018 3:31:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Zakeet
And Todd Gitlin, fer gawdsake. Is this Karma or what?
37 posted on 04/06/2018 3:31:44 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Live and let live.)
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To: Darksheare

I hope she’s not there on a United Negro College Fund scholarship.


38 posted on 04/06/2018 3:31:49 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: WayneS

“Some people simply don’t belong in college.”

Some people simply don’t belong.


39 posted on 04/06/2018 3:33:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Darksheare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0lWV7ANhU8

The Old Negro Space Program


40 posted on 04/06/2018 3:35:07 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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