CUNY Prof Under Fire for Allegedly Making Racist Comments on Zoom Call
“They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school”
This school is in the news like once a month, and it’s never for a good reason.
The New York Post reports:
CUNY professor’s excuse for ‘blatantly racist’ hot-mic moment as Hunter College faces pressure to fire her
A New York City university professor was forced to apologize after she was busted on a hot mic making a “blatantly racist” remark about black students — as calls for her to be fired continued to escalate.
Allyson Friedman, an associate biology professor at Hunter College, sparked widespread fury after she inadvertently interrupted a black eighth-grade student’s concerns about the potential shutdown of her Upper West Side school during a public Community Education Council meeting on Feb 10.
“They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” Friedman reportedly said on Zoom while her mic was live.
“If you train a black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back,” she continued. “You don’t have to tell them anymore.”
Friedman, who was attending the meeting virtually as a parent, has since claimed she was actually trying to explain systematic racism to her own child “by referencing an example of an obviously racist trope” — but her full remarks weren’t completely audible.
“My complete comments make clear these abhorrent views are not my own, nor were they directed at any student or group,” Friedman told the New York Times.
“I fully support these courageous students in their efforts to stop school closures.”
“However, I recognize these comments caused harm and pain, while that was not my intent I do truly apologize,” she added.
The backlash against Friedman was swift as education officials blasted her remarks and as calls for her to be ousted from Hunter College continued to mount.
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yeah I read this a few days back
nice to hear a lefty admit it out loud
now just say it at the next dnc convention
She can always get a job in the Newsome Administration.
I looked into this. It seems to me that she was making a point to someone off camera by repeating a quote from someone about training people to act a certain way and once you get that drilled in their heads they just do it and don’t question it. She was making a valid point.
There is a ton of pearl clutching going on over this but the problem is the left made the rules. Even if what she said is completely valid you can’t say that in public so must be fired and cancelled. Sorry, lady.