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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 12:44 PM Jan 2018

POLICE TO SIT IN ON 'WHITE RACISM' CLASS IN FLORIDA AFTER PROFESSOR RECEIVES DISTURBING CALLS AND HA

Source: Newsweek


BY BEATRICE DUPUY ON 1/9/18 AT 10:42 AM

Two police officers will be sitting in on a Florida Gulf Coast University course titled “White Racism” after the professor behind the class was subjected to racist abuse.

Ted Thornhill, an assistant professor of sociology, first announced the course on how to combat white supremacy this past fall and soon after began receiving concerning voicemails and emails with some calling him the “n-word."

The police officers are set to sit in on his first class meeting Tuesday. Thornhill told The News-Press that he handed about 50 pages of “negative comments” he received to campus police.

Students returned to campus following winter break on Monday, with Thornhill’s class getting underway Tuesday. Susan Evans, FGCU's spokeswoman, told Newsweek that there had been no disruptions during the class so far Tuesday morning.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/police-white-racism-course-florida-775381?piano_t=1

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POLICE TO SIT IN ON 'WHITE RACISM' CLASS IN FLORIDA AFTER PROFESSOR RECEIVES DISTURBING CALLS AND HA (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2018 OP
They don't call it Lower Alabama for no reason nt Phoenix61 Jan 2018 #1
The racists are only proving the professor's point. Initech Jan 2018 #2

Initech

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2. The racists are only proving the professor's point.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 01:03 PM
Jan 2018

This is why we can't have nice things. Fuck racists.

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