A New York City university professor has sparked widespread fury after she was caught on a hot mic making a crass comment about black students — which education officials branded “blatantly racist.
Allyson Friedman, an associate professor at Hunter College , sparked widespread fury after she inadvertently interrupted a black eighth-grade student’s concerns about the potential shutdown of her school during a public Community Education Council meeting on Feb 10.
“They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” Friedman reportedly said while her mic was live. “If you train a black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back,” she continued. “You don’t have to tell them anymore.” Friedman, who was attending the meeting virtually as a parent, has since claimed she was actually trying to explain systematic racism to her own child “by referencing an example of an obviously racist trope” — but her full remarks weren’t completely audible.“My complete comments make clear these abhorrent views are not my own, nor were they directed at any student or group,” Friedman“However, I recognize these comments caused harm and pain, while that was not my intent I do truly apologize,” she added.“@Hunter_College must fire Allyson Friedman immediately,” City Council member Chi Osse said on X. “@CUNY cannot apply one standard for political speech and another for explicit anti-clack racism. A university that moved swiftly to discipline pro-Palestine activism cannot turn around and excuse racist vitriol directed at black children.”Squatter who took over $2.3M mansion returns after short-lived jail stintMeghan Markle’s wedding dress designer dropped a chic $40 bag at UniqloKris Jenner’s morning wellness routine: Bedside coffee, a ‘magic sauce’ workout and a smoothie she ‘can’t live without’Sarah Ferguson was desperately trying to break into Hollywood before ex Prince Andrew’s Epstein arrest
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