NYC college professor caught making racist remarks on Zoom

[Gloxina]

It’s a zoom meeting. “Professional setting” vs casual is a lil blurry when it comes to these WFH situations & muting your mic or turning off your camera.


In her response she says “as a parent I was explaining”, which I take as she was talking to her own child on the side while the zoom meeting was going on.



My brother speaks in very blunt, direct, crass terms when speaking to his children about real shyt. So I can see the scenario playing.

Yeeeeeeea. When you’re on zoom in a professional capacity you need to conduct yourself that way for the duration of the session or *OOPS* shyt like this exact situation may occur.

 

[Da King]

*story edited for brevity. link added at the end.*

Allyson Friedman, a professor at Hunter College, has identified herself as the person heard making racist remarks during a February 10 virtual meeting of New York City's School District 3 Community Education Council, according to an update from West Side Rag.

Hunter College confirmed to Newsweek on Saturday that it is reviewing the situation under its applicable conduct and nondiscrimination policies.

The remarks were made while an eighth-grade student from the Community Action School was speaking about not wanting to lose her school — one of three Upper West Side (UWS) schools under consideration for possible relocation or closure by the Department of Education (DOE).

As the student spoke, a voice — later identified as Friedman's — was heard saying: "They're too dumb to know they're in a bad school. If you train a Black person well enough, they'll know to use the back. You don't have to tell them anymore."

Participants on the Zoom call visibly reacted with shock and disgust at the comments.

A meeting organizer immediately told the speaker: "What you're saying is absolutely hearable here, you've got to stop." The video then went silent for 14 seconds before a woman apologized to the student, who continued her remarks: "We might not be able to have these safe spaces anymore and we should be able to keep our school open."

In her statement to Newsweek, Friedman said she was attempting to explain the concept of systemic racism by referencing a historical example during a side conversation, and that an inadvertent unmute caused the remarks to be captured.

She said the comments were not directed at the student speaker and added that she immediately sent written apologies to Superintendent Reginald Higgins, the Community Action School, and the Community Education Council.

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Allyson Friedman's Full Statement
The Hunter College professor told Newsweek on Saturday:

"During the February 10 CEC3 meeting, there was a discussion about systemic racism and educational equity, with references to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the work of Carter G. Woodson, as well as school closures. Separately during the meeting, as a parent, I was trying to explain the concept of systemic racism by referencing a historical example. Due to an inadvertent unmute, part of that conversation was captured.

My remarks were not directed at the student speaker, and they do not reflect my beliefs or values. Regardless of context, my words were wrong and caused real harm. I take full responsibility for their impact, and I am deeply sorry to the students, families, educators, and community members who were hurt. I immediately sent written apologies to Dr. Higgins, the Community Action School, and the Community Education Council.

As a member of the Hunter community, I am a strong proponent of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I share Hunter’s mission of advancing opportunity, respect, and belonging for students from all backgrounds. I regret deeply that my words were inconsistent with those values. I support the Community Action School and its mission, and I regret adding any pain or distraction at a moment when the community’s concerns about the DOE’s school-closure process deserved full attention. I am committed to accountability and repairing harm."
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Full story

Hunter College responds after viral video of professor’s racist remarks

Hunter College professor Allyson Friedman apologized after a viral video captured her making racist remarks at a NYC school meeting.

www.newsweek.com

I wonder who she votes for

 

[Pazzy]

I will never understand how so many people let insecurity within themselves run their lives to the point where it alters the way they think on some illogical shyt. Its embarrassing. Motherfukkers really be trying to normalize letting their insecurities control them too where they make groups or collectives to bond being insecure about themselves together. When you have a level of security with yourself, you can see how silly and dangerous that shyt really is. Like people really are dying over nothing because a motherfukker cant control their insecurities from within.

 

[bnew]

What kind of c00nery is this?

digital blackface isn't that.

 

[Mission249]

As an educator,you can't refer to children and/or students, as "too dumb." Irregardless of whether they're your students or not. Its unbecoming of an educator.

Right. She was dead wrong.

For her to then follow it up with the "train Black people" remark was the icing on the cake.

You seem too sensitive to have this conversation. So I'll just say it for anyone else who cares: she was improperly quoting Carter Woodson's analysis ("The Miseducation of the Negro".) on how certain Blacks were too used to the segregation and injustice to realize their predicament.

She shouldn't have done it. But let's be clear on what we're mad about.

Y'all really in here with these outlandish whataboutisms to defend this liberal white bytch. Its gross

Relax. Already said what she did was wrong and dapped the person I was responding to. Just trying to add some nuance to the convo because I saw parts were misinterpreted (like the quote). But I see I'm getting lumped in with with her defenders, and tensions are too high. So I'll leave it.

 

[tuckgod]

But because I know some of you negroes prefer your knowledge delivered via pink lips



The Jew is not and has never been your friend.

All ideas of brown skinned peoples being lesser than humans of lighter skin is an idea that has been spread throughout the lands throughout recorded history by people that identify as Jewish today, and no one else.

Before they began to spread that falsehood, the peoples of the world thought in the opposite manner, and the so called Jews only perpetuated it so that they could trade uninhibited by the negative reputation that they rightfully earned as a people, when doing business with others.

In short, they figured out how to pin their negative reputation on us (ie. At one point “black” referred to negative business reputation, they figured out how to make us refer to ourselves by that moniker, as an identity, proudly).

 

[xCivicx]

You went to school in NYC?

I was born in Brooklyn

I went to elementary school up there yes

 

[tuckgod]

I was born in Brooklyn

I went to elementary school up there yes

Where did you do middle and high school?

 

[xCivicx]

Where did you do middle and high school?

Metro Atlanta

 

[DeuceZ]

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks...