NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey community college has fired an adjunct professor after officials say she made racially insensitive comments on Fox News.
Essex County College’s president announced the decision Friday, two weeks after Lisa Durden’s appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
College officials said they received complaints about Durden’s interview with Carlson. Durden, who is black, discussed a Memorial Day event held exclusively for black people hosted by a Black Lives Matter group.
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When Carlson asked her thoughts, Durden interrupted the host, saying: “Boo hoo hoo. You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your white privilege card” to attend the event.
The show aired June 6, and the school suspended Durden with pay two days later. She addressed the matter during a public meeting Tuesday with school officials, but was soon fired.
Essex County College President Anthony Munroe said the school “supports and affirms the right of free speech and independent views and expressions of those views” for faculty and staff. He also noted that although Durden did not mention her affiliation with the school during her television appearance or claim to be representing its views, “her employment with us and potential impact on students required our immediate review into what seemed to have become a very contentious and divisive issue.”
Durden has said the school “publicly lynched” her.
Durden told NJ.com on Friday that she has received a lot of support from school staff members and students, but compared her experience to a rape victim who is blamed for the crime, and a person who returns from war to a hostile environment.
Durden’s attorney, Leslie Farber, said she believes her client’s free speech rights were violated. Farber said they were considering whether to take legal action in the matter.
“I fully believe that institutions of higher learning must provide a safe space for students to explore, discuss and debate, not only academic philosophies, but the harder issues related to living harmoniously and growing together in our communities and as a country,” Munroe wrote in a statement announcing the firing. “The character of this institution mandates that we embrace diversity, inclusion, and unity. Racism cannot be fought with more racism.”
Ha! Stupid heifer thought that Obunghole is still the prez.
Too funny, “Boo hoo hoo” the poor little niggress couldn’t use her black privilege/ virtual rape card to get out of trouble.
She will be back in 6 months with a hefthy settlement package. The college President will publicly apologize.
I don’t think so prusmc. I just checked and president Munroe is a black man, so no wiggle room for the racism card.
She says “Racism cannot be fought with more racism.” And yet that is exactly what she is doing.
Actually, that was a quote from what the college president said in the statement about her firing. That’s what she was doing so he fired her ass. I’m just surprised that she was fired and that the college president said what so many people already think but aren’t given a chance to say.
If you haven’t watched the interview watch it on you tube. It’s well worth the 6 or so minutes. She’s certifiable.
I’ve never seen Tucker look so surprised. Nice recovery, though.
She has previously said on TV that blacks can’t be racist as she did in this interview, and she always uses the “social justice” definition of racism (racism = power + prejudice).
Leftists are skilled at redefining words so their agenda can SOUND credible.
That particular lie about racism came from Noam Chomsky. He claims that in order to be racist, you must be one of the privileged class who are in a position to cause someone to suffer from discrimination….hey, wait a minute.
Can you imagine having to be married to that constant mouth.
Is it any wonder so many black men don’t prefer their own women?
Greetings,
And just how is the BLM movement doing these days? All we have to do is look at Detroit or Baltimore to know how the movement will end up now that they’ve segregated themselves. Hint: Total Failure.
Note the gawdy necklace and ear bobs. Nothing tastefully understated with negros. Loud and Vulgar 24/7/365.
Ear bobs. I haven’t heard anyone say that since I was a kid. Great old Southern term.
She is crazy and should never have been hired in first place.
I will get dog piled for saying this but I don’t she should have been fired.
Let her keep her job because now that she is loose the spectacle will have wings.
Black racism criticized and punished! How remarkable!
More feral negroes acting like feral negroes. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/25/watch-couple-brutally-beats-restaurant-owners-over-food-order/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Finally blow back on the racist fools promoting BLACK LIVES MATTER . I am amazed the college had the guts to fire this person of the black race for her decisive racist attitude .
Everyone knows no matter how apologetic a white person would be for some reason or lame excuse intentionally excluded black people and urged them not to attend an all white event the BLACK LIVES MATTER supporters would be marching in defying anyone to stop them from attending and would escalate it into a burning riot because that’s what the BLM movement is all about . Note the moment this foolish racist women was challenged with a demand for an intellegent defense of her opinion she folded and went right to loud mouth unrelated comments to the question asked and brought up everything she could to avoid the truth !
Yes Black People can & are capable of being racists !
What could have been a universal movement against police brutality became a bunch of idiots blocking freeways and increasing antipathy toward blacks. Idiots.
Classless clown who overloaded her hummingbird ass with her alligator mouth……
Isn’t this two scalps for Tucker now?
Maybe the time has come for them to start being judged by the same standards they judge others by.
This 70 IQ sheboon just found out that the worm has indeed turned in America. The American people are going to push back -hard.
Better arm yourself Tucker. BLM is out there.
They were clearly trying to start something, as if anybody not in BLM would want to attend. She did not even understand that no one was crying they could not go. Oh, and “contextualize”?