ShootSpeeders
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If colleges dropped all these silly liberal arts degrees and taught only STEM like they should, few blacks would attend college. There's the answer.
Professor Called Racist For Correcting Black Student?s Grammar And Punctuation - Downtrend.com
January 22, 2014
. 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.
For all the hype and grandstanding over their professors crime the only example the protesters could put forth was this: he told a black female student that the word indigenous should not be capitalized. The student felt this correction was ideologically motivated. Indigenous is an adjective and should not be capitalized unless its at the beginning of a sentence like the way I just used it. I learned that in grade school.