Richard Rowland wrote:
On one of the sites, that I'm not computer literate enough to attach to this forum, I read were a professor at UCLA has caused a sit in by black students because he (the professor) had the audacity to point out an error on a black students paper.
The black students are claiming r****m. Is there no limit to the ignorance of these people?
Is this what you are talking about? If so, :lol: :x :lol: :lol: you owe me for solving your technology issues. Kidding.
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/this-ucla-professor-called-r****t-for-the-horrible-thing-he-did-to-a-black-studentThis UCLA Professor Called R****t For The Horrible Thing He Did To A Black StudentA UCLA professor was called r****t, and guilty of a micro-aggression against black students for correcting grammar and spelling issues on their papers. A protest was organized and students claim the professor has created a hostile climate on campus for his actions.
I thought the race debate reached a new low when Gummy Bear maker Haribo was accused of r****m for making African mask Gummies, but what happened at UCLA this week makes that look sane. 25 University of California Los Angeles students participated in a sit-in protest because, get this, one of their professors had the gall to correct grammar and spelling issues on some black students papers.
Val Rust, a professor of education and information, was the target of the protestors for what they feel was racial insensitivity. Describing themselves as aggrieved minority students, they claim that the professor was wrong to correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar in the papers of black students.
Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color, the group which launched the sit-in, said the act of correcting a black student was micro-aggression. But its much worse than you think. The group issued the following statement:
A hostile campus climate has been the norm for Students of Color in this class throughout the quarter as our epistemological and methodological commitments have been repeatedly questioned by our classmates and our instructor. The barrage of questions by white colleagues and the grammar lessons by the professor have contributed to a hostile class climate.
My question is how will these people function in the real world?
Maybe these students would be better off if they immediately quit school to seek the psychological help they so desperately need, then come back and complete their education once theyre healed.