By: Jack Encarnacao, Antonio Planas
BOSTON HERALD - Monday, May 11, 2015
A Boston University spokesman said the administration is “offended”
by an incoming African American Studies professor’s disparaging tweets
about white people, which have gone viral and now have students at odds.
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Grundy, who starts in July as an assistant professor of sociology and
African American Studies, has sent out several racially charged tweets
in recent months, including calling “white college males” a “problem
population,” declaring “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s
colleges.” Other tweets stated “Deal with your white (expletive), white
people. slavery is a *YALL* thing,” and “Every MLK week I commit myself
to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find
it nearly impossible.”
The tweets were compiled by the web site
SoCawlege.com last week before Grundy — described on BU’s website as a
“feminist sociologist of race & ethnicity” — made her account
private. They were also published by Fox News.
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