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.
Lisa don’t matter no more.
It is surprising to me to watch people participate in a system that affords them a path to a great job, and then they express a hatred embedded in them that is incredibly ugly.
What did this woman have to complain about?
No, she got up on her pedestal, put a rope around her own neck, and jumped off.
careers go splat after appearing on tucker’s show somewhat frequently — there was the seizure guy, and now this ridiculous woman.
Why is it that we’re a racist society when the government gives away, sets aside, and offers entitlements to so many, for so much, from so few?
I hope she ends up working truck stops for $20 bucks per.
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You can tell the woman was expecting a tough line of questioning and had plenty of time to rethink her prepared remarks. She SHOULD do tricks.
Well stated, that's exactly what she did and she shouldn't be teaching.
Just guessing the school has plenty of other witnesses who can attest to her “demented” state.
She’s probably been “acting out” like this for a long time. Just not on national television.
Couldn’t agree more.
She is gone, but there are many more to go.
The free ride is over!
You keep doing stuff like this, and there’s going to be a cost.
It’s amazing to see universities and others starting to police their own. It’s about darned time!
Is it just me, or has Political Correctness been rolled back since President Trump’s victory? Like a breath of fresh air, truth is on the resurgence. More winning!
It sure seems that way. At least the double-standard on speech is being rolled back.
“Hateful, bitter, racist
So how did she get fired?”
She was caught on tape making liberals look bad. That’s THE cardinal sin.
“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.
Let us hope it is the start of a trend. A meritocracy is fine. A corrupt society with special privileges based on skin color, is what MLK said he did not want.
Yep, it does seem to me that PC is starting to take a back seat to common sense even if it’s just a start.
Absolutely more winning.
Was there rioting in the streets to shut her down?
“Is 80 too generous?”
Yes, but it is the high end for stalinist thugs like her.
Schadenfreude = “dark joy”
That’s Racist!
Good decision, last thing we need is a racist teaching college kids.
In this article she’s blaming everyone under the sun, and it doesn’t even quote her segment. It’s a lefty-leaning newspaper in NJ..
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/06/essex_county_college_professor_suspended_after_fox.html
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