Black faculty, administrators outraged at hiring of white woman as Michigan State U. provost

thecollegefix.com ^ | 5/4/2020 | David Huber

[rktman]

Black faculty, administrators, and staff at Michigan State University are angry at the selection of a white woman as the school’s new provost.

It’s a “travesty,” wrote MSU Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association President Eunice Foster about the hiring of Northwestern University’s Teresa Woodruff.

According to the Lansing State Journal, Foster also said many in the black community consider it “unbelievable,” “outrageous,” “unconscionable,” “shocking,” and “appalling” in her letter to MSU President Samuel Stanley Jr.

“To those of us seeking a just, inclusive, and equitable campus,” Foster wrote, “this appointment is a misjudgment of what Michigan State University…needs now, given the abysmal state of race relations both on campus and in the nation.”

The Journal notes Woodruff miffed students at Northwestern for allegedly “ignoring the concerns of underrepresented students.” According to the student paper The Daily Northwestern, students wanted Woodruff canned for this fact as recently as March.

Woodruff beat out Rutgers’ Wanda Blanchett and the University of Houston’s Antonio Tillis, both of whom are black and specialize in race issues. Foster noted the two runners up also have experience as “healers,” while Woodruff “only has experience working with white women.”

[Altura Ct.]

MSU Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association

I thought that 'race is just a skin color'? Why is it that it is almost exclusively whites that buy into this crap?

[vpintheak]

Racist leftist blacks.
Qualifications and skills mean nothing! Skin color and skin color only! These pukes and the weak Lilly-white leftists make me sick.

[Robert357]

I had no idea race determined academic standing, leadership qualities, nor management skills.

Who would have thought such a thing (let alone spoken it!).

[EEGator]

Yes, and their church is Our Lady of Perpetual Injustice...

[chief lee runamok]

What was the point in desegregation decades ago?

Voluntary, rabid segregation seems to be popular now.

[leaning conservative]

Le sigh.......

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“many in the black community consider it “unbelievable,” “outrageous,” “unconscionable,” “shocking,” and “appalling”

“Did Jackie Chiles write this?”

Lol. Sounds just like something he would say.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Wonder how I would fare under the old rules?

I’m 13% black according to my ancestry.com DNA test.

Wonder I qualify for that college?

[gogeo]

Did Jackie Chiles write this?

I don't think so...he would have mentioned 'egregious.'

[gogeo]

The headline is fake. The students and faculty have issues did NOT say they were opposing Woodruff BECAUSE she is white.

'They did not say.' Hmmm.

I suppose you could make a case that this is not the issue. Would you like to try?

[gogeo]

And if whites are good enough to donate...

Not a donation, a down payment on a debt owed.

(I'm guessing.)

[edwinland]

Yes. Always happy to try:

I read the articles linked in this article. I also read all of the letters from the students and the faculty. They make a lot of claims against Woodruff that are possibly false - I don’t know because I have never even been to MSU. They also make one claim which is patently ridiculous — that her graduate students were all “caucasian females”. You could write a great story criticizing their claims against her.

But they do not claim to oppose her because she is white. The authors may think that’s their real reason, and you and I may think that too. But then again the writers at the New York Times think the Tea Party’s “real” reason for opposing Obama was that he was black.

And it was journalist malpractice for them to write headlines saying the Tea Party was “outraged’ at the election of a Black President.

[Albion Wilde]

I am betting the word “healer” as used here does not follow the conventional definition.

"Healer", as in "we got over on them."

[Albion Wilde]

The headline is fake. The students and faculty have issues did NOT say they were opposing Woodruff BECAUSE she is white.

Are you being sarcastic? Or are you still believing that what people say is more reflective of their true intentions than what they do?

Nor did the headline say they were opposed BECAUSE she is white; it merely pointed out that "Black faculty, administrators [were] outraged at hiring of white woman as Michigan State U. provost."

[edwinland]

Are you being sarcastic? Or are you still believing that what people say is more reflective of their true intentions than what they do?

I'm not being sarcastic. According to the article, the faculty and students in this article didn't "do" anything other than what they "said" in the article. It's fine to report what they said and then opine on what they were really thinking, but reporting their "true intentions" as what they said is not journalism. Nor did the headline say they were opposed BECAUSE she is white; it merely pointed out that "Black faculty, administrators [were] outraged at hiring of white woman as Michigan State U. provost."

SO I guess you would defend headlines like this "Tea Party outraged at re-election of Black man as President."

I have problems with those kinds of headlines.

[Tunehead54]

"Isn’t this RACISM??? BLATANT RACISM!!"

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Maybe if she goes to work in black face and maybe dressing like a pimp? ;-)

[Tunehead54]

"Character, not color of their skin? Sounds familiar. Nah, just a dream apparently. "

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Pure genius. White is a color, I'm pretty sure. Everybody is some color but the blue and green ones are usually dead so they're not usually job candidates.

Poor MLK. "His" people (like Michelle's) only see color ostensibly but not all. Don't know how "they" put up with half-white Obama for 8 years.

[MarvinStinson]

Eunice Foster,

Teresa Woodruff.

[Albion Wilde]

Neither of us were there to know what was really conveyed in their deliberations. But swap the races in the headline and text and see whether you think the words/intentions/actions of the black faculty were racially unbiased:

"White faculty, administrators outraged at hiring of black woman as Michigan State U. provost."

"According to the Lansing State Journal, Foster also said many in the white community consider [the appointment] 'unbelievable,' 'outrageous,' 'unconscionable,' 'shocking,' and 'appalling' in her letter to MSU President..."

What would the candidate have to have done to merit these extreme terms—'unconscionable,' 'shocking,' and 'appalling'—really? She is accused of not having met the demands of some activists of color at her former institution. Given the hardline, uncompromising demands of today's campus activists, many of whom are paid and scripted by socialist/globalist activist organizations funded by Soros, Gates, Bezos et al, their language makes it sound as if she gave the order for a public whipping, as opposed to merely saying "no" because of budget restraints or whatever other banality was probably at play.