Posted on 02/23/2026 8:36:17 PM PST by Angelino97
A Hunter College professor who sparked widespread outrage after she was caught making a “blatantly racist” comment during a New York City public schools video meeting is being reviewed by her employer — but may keep her job thanks to her cushy tenure.
Allyson Friedman, an associate professor of biology at the Manhattan CUNY school, came under fire after her shocking remarks were caught on a hot mic, interrupting a black eighth-grader who was raising concerns about her Upper West Side school possibly facing a shutdown during a Community Education Council meeting on Feb. 10.
“They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” Friedman was heard saying while her mic was unknowingly unmuted.
“If you train a black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back,” she said. “You don’t have to tell them anymore.”
She seemed to be referring to a comment made by Reginald Higgins, the school district’s interim acting superintendent, who spoke about scholar Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history, earlier in the meeting.
“If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told,” Woodson wrote in his 1933 book “The Mis-education of the Negro.”
Two other adults in the virtual meeting quickly called out the professor, who was attending as a parent of a public school student.
“Allyson Friedman, what you’re saying is absolutely hearable here. You’ve got to stop,” one man snapped while others sat in shock, their hands clamped over their mouths.
The entire meeting went dead silent for about 10 seconds before the moderators apologized to the student and urged her to continue.
Backlash to Friedman’s remarks was swift once the video clip circulated online.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Is what she said somehow worse than what Newsome said about getting a low SAT score? If not, then why isn’t Newsome being similarly called out? Oh yeah, he’s a rat politician.
The Longhouse Karens are really, really concerned.
Check out the Longhouse Karens filling their panties with fresh poo.
At their core these affluent, white, female, urban liberals and karens in general are intolerant and racist.
“ Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history”
It seems she was making the same point Woodson made in 1913.
They don’t like she called out their schools for being crap, likening them to the back door of Woodson’s analogy.
LOL Imagine the leftist lip service she’s had to pay over the years just to stay in that job. Def she’s jabbed multiple times too.
AND YOU BLEW IT LADY with two sentences! Happy job hunting.
I don’t care and she should not apologized. Black teachers scream and yell racist things about white people all the time. Especially tenured college “proffesuhs”
I was riding through the hills of the Ozarks singing along to friends in low places with gusto when one the guys in the riding group cracked don’t quit your day job. I thought the damn mic was off.
The speaker said the students had no clue how bad their schools were. Was the speaker wrong?
Longhouse Karens? Please fill me in on this one!
You’ll love it.
I thought tenured professors were untouchable and that this is why they can promote Hamas and harass conservative students, etc.
How do some get away with it and some dont, jimmy kimmel aka carl Malone, ted Danson black face, Hillary Baptist church accent. Maybe shes in the way of an aspiring black looking for her position
Grok:"Longhouse" has two meanings:
1. The literal one – a long, shared wooden house used by some indigenous groups (like the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee) where extended families or whole clans lived together under one roof. Super communal, no real privacy, common in tribal/agricultural societies.
2. The online slang version (mostly in right-wing / anti-woke internet circles since ~2018–2023) – 'the Longhouse' (often capitalized) is a metaphor for modern society feeling like a suffocating, overly feminine/matriarchal setup.
Think: heavy emphasis on safety, feelings, consensus, avoiding conflict or 'harm' at all costs, enforced by things like HR rules, cancel culture, bureaucracy, or nagging authority figures (the 'den mother' type). It supposedly crushes masculine traits like risk-taking, independence, directness, and privacy—trading them for collective comfort and surveillance.
Popularized by this pseudonymous far-right writer 'Bronze Age Pervert' in his book *Bronze Age Mindset*, then blew up more widely (e.g., a 2023 essay in *First Things* called 'What Is the Longhouse?').
So when people say 'longhouse Karen,' it's combining the classic entitled/complaining 'Karen' meme with this idea: the ultimate busybody enforcer of smothering, risk-averse norms (like the triple-masked scold during COVID, or DEI/HR types policing everything).
It's pretty niche and politically charged—mostly used as a dunk on progressive/liberal conformity—but once you see it, it shows up a lot in those corners of Twitter/X, 4chan, etc. Wild how a historical house became a culture-war insult!"
The hands over the mouth, gasping in horror… 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Morons
I would have started out with a high percentage or ended with a clarification.
Don’t these people know that there’s nothing in the Bill Of Rights or Constitution that says people can’t make racist comments?
Patrick Buchanan was right when he predicted that political correctness would be the end of America. That was ... what ...40 years ago?
Kristin Savov doesn’t seem as aghast.
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