Posted on 09/16/2017 9:27:37 AM PDT by rktman
A university president in Tennessee apologized Friday for hosting black students in his home, which displayed a cotton decoration.
Randy Lowry, president of Lipscomb University, apologized for showing centerpieces bearing cotton stalks while hosting black students at his home in an email sent to the school Friday and posted on Facebook.
The content of the centerpieces was offensive, and I could have handled the situation with more sensitivity, said Lowry. I sincerely apologize for the discomfort, anger or disappointment we caused and solicit your forgiveness.
The president reported that multiple students confided in him about the cotton decoration displayed during a Thursday dinner he hosted at his home for black students to share their experiences at Lipscomb with him.
I have heard from a number of students who would like to spend more time together engaging in conversation, said Lowry. I am most pleased to do so either in small groups or individually.
Other schools have taken action to try to redress the grievances of black students. The University of Missouri hosted segregated microaggression therapy sessions in August. (RELATED: Mizzou Offers Microaggressions Therapy For Black Students Surviving At White Institution)
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Lowry and Lipscomb for comment, but received none in time for press.
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That pink cotton candy is a Queer symbol and offensive all good men
LMAO! You beat me to it!
This is so stupid. Keep wearing cotton T-shirts myself. Pretty sure machines pick it nowadays.
For cryng out loud, that is way past stupid and childish. Who can take any of this sort of racist stuff seriously?
About 8 years ago.
What do these black students wear? Polyester?
Exactly! My mom grew up on a cotton farm near Enterprise, Alabama, during the Depression. She and her siblings were in the fields before dawn. They lived in a house with no electric or indoor plumbing. She picked tons of cotton in her life.
What next ...will he ban aspirin from the school infirmary?
Aspirin is highly racist.
They are white.
They work.
To get to them, you have to pick cotton.
The President of the College MUST BE TOLD THAT apologizing is NOT ENOUGH.
He must personally kiss the butt of every person in that town more politically correct than he is... then he should be sentenced to death or sent to a re-education center. Ve vill NOT be mocked.
Left wing totalitarians are NOT going to put up with this crap.
Death to those who dare to make politically incorrect gestures.
Next time there’s an ecowanker gathering, just check out all the advanced petro derived outerwear. Oh, and foot coverings as well. Not to mention the travel costs and pollution.
OMG!
I was in a store the other day and saw a banner advertising underwear made of o the horror! COTTON!
Had I been a snowflake, I am sure I would have melted right on that spot. And the mean ole store personnel would probably have added insult to injury by mopping me up with a COTTON swab!
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There is a man that doesn’t deserve his post.
I went through both undergrad and grad school without ever being invited to dinner at the President’s house!! I am so offended. Obviously those presidents were discriminating against white folks. (well yeah, they probably were, or at least they were busy pandering to black folks)
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