The text of the email is sickening. Who does this?The College Fix reports:
Northwestern U. investigates racist email sent to professorThe campus police at Northwestern University are investigating a racist “hate” email that was sent to a black African American Studies professor on May 2.Barnor Hesse, who teaches the course “Unsettling Whiteness,” tweeted out the text of the message he received a day later: “Hey Doc., after I finish AFAMST 380: Unsettling Whiteness, I want to take AFAMST 101: Unsettling Chimps, you racist mother f***er.”The professor later tweeted that the university had responded rapidly and adequately (“offering support & resources”).According to The Daily Northwestern, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Adrian Randolph stated in an email that
[…] the anonymous email [was] “racist” and noted how it explicitly targeted Hesse’s work.“On behalf of the Weinberg College community, I condemn the cowardly act of sending such an email and strongly denounce all forms of racism, discrimination, and harassment,” Randolph wrote. “Such racism violates our expectations concerning inclusion and respect.”In a Tuesday statement, University spokesperson Bob Rowley said UP is actively investigating.“(UP) continues to investigate this hateful email and is trying to identify the sender,” Rowley said in a statement to The Daily.
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