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.
“Obviously, the comments made by the professor are clearly offensive and abhorrent and something that was echoed also by President Cantor from Hunter College ,” chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez said., an associate biology professor and a mom, is being investigated by three different committees after she was caught calling black students “too dumb to know they’re in a bad school” during a Community Education Council meeting.
Allyson Friedman, an associate biology professor at Hunter College, is being investigated by three different committees after she was caught calling black students “too dumb to know they’re in a bad school” during a Community Education Council meeting.Hunter College, the district and the city Department of Education are each conducting their own investigations into Friedman’s comments, Matos Rodriguez revealed when Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman pressed him about the incident during Tuesday’s higher education budget hearing in Albany. “We look forward to hearing the reports at the end of the investigation, but we are, like you, totally appalled by the comments.”City University of New York boss Felix Matos Rodriguez condemned Friedman’s remarks, but stopped short of firing the accused racist.Matos Rodriguez could not say how long the investigations will take, but admitted it shouldn’t be “lengthy.” CUNY professor who made ‘blatantly racist’ remarks on Zoom hot mic defended by free speech group as parents demand her firingFriedman, an associate biology professor at Hunter College, was forced to apologize after she was busted on a hot mic moment that interrupted a black eighth-grade student’s concerns about the potential shutdown of her Upper West Side school during a public Community Education Council meeting on Feb 10.Hunter College, the district and the city Department of Education are each conducting their own investigations into Friedman’s comments. “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” Friedman reportedly said on Zoom 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 claimed she wasn’t being racist, but was 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. The educator has received widespread backlash over the incident and is battling numerous calls for her employment termination. Friedman has a PhD from NYU and researches and teaches cellular neurophysiology, which explores “the neural adaptations that are responsible for aberrant social behaviors,”American Airlines jet lands in Miami with bullet holes after trip to ColombiaRikki SchlottNaomi Watts reveals ‘unsolicited’ fashion critique from daughter Kai before the Met Gala: ‘Wrong dress’Pete Alonso won’t regret leaving Mets for Baltimore | Back Page Banter Allyson Friedman, an associate biology professor at Hunter College, is being investigated by three different committees after she was caught calling black students"too dumb to know they’re in a bad school" during a Community Education Council meeting.City University of New York boss Felix Matos Rodriguez condemned Friedman's remarks, but stopped short of firing the accused racist.
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CUNY professor apologizes for ‘blatantly racist’ hot mic moment as Hunter College faces pressure to fire herA 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.
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