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#BlackFemaleProfessor reprimanded 4pointing out #StructuralRacism

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#BlackFemaleProfessor reprimanded 4 pointing out #StructuralRacism to white male students |

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A faculty member at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Shannon Gibney, received a formal reprimand for her handling of a discussion about structural racism in her Introduction to Mass Communication course.

According to Gibney inan interview with City College News, a white male student asked her, “Why do we have to talk about this in every class? Why do we have to talk about this?”

She claims she was shocked, because “[h]is whole demeanor was very defensive. He was taking it personally. I tried to explain, of course, in a reasonable manner — as reasonable as I could given the fact that I was being interrupted and put on the spot in the middle of class — that this is unfortunately the context of 21st century America.”

Gibney says another white male student followed the first, saying “Yeah, I don’t get this either. It’s like people are trying to say that white men are always the villains, the bad guys. Why do we have to say this?”

When Gibney attempted, again, to inform the students that they were mistaking a systemic critique for a personal attack, the students continued to argue. Eventually, she told them that “if you’re really upset, feel free to go down to legal affairs and file a racial harassment discrimination complaint.” This is exactly what they did.

Gibney is familiar with white male students taking discussions about structural racism as personal attacks, as it has happened before: ina 2009 incident, an editor of the school newspaper took offense at a similar discussion. In both that case and this one, Gibney received an official reprimand. After the latest accusation, the Vice President of Academic Affairs appended a letter to her file, in which he said he found it “it troubling that the manner in which you led a discussion on the very important topic of of structural racism alienated two students who may have been most in need of learning about this subject.”

“While I believe it was your intention to discuss structural racism generally,” he continued, “it was inappropriate for you to single out white male students in class. Your actions in [targeting] select students based on their race and gender caused them embarrassment and created a hostile learning environment.”

Gibney told lawyers at an investigatory meeting for an anti-discrimination lawsuit she and six other professors are filling against MCTC that the vice president’s words “have helped those three white male students succeed in undermining my authority as one of the few remaining black female professors here.”

There’s a lot of irony in this story. In the students’ subsequent freak out about feeling “singled out” about structural racism  they went over her head and tried to get the professor fired…indicating structural racism. 

In grad school, when I was harassed, followed, abused, and intimidated by a cis white male, non-tenured faculty member, the dept, head told me “there are two sides to every story” and told me I was overreacting. He then avoided any meaningful interaction with me, and encouraged me to be silent about my  experiences. When a cis white male college student I was teaching complained that I wouldn’t give him extra credit assignment because he happened to miss every lesson we explicitly talked about race, I got an immediate, angry phone call from the same dept. head telling me I need “to do everything I could to keep students happy” and that “they are the important ones.” This is a dept that supposedly is “aggressively against structural racism” and “values intersectionality”. This is one of the thousand reasons I am not in the least bit surprised by this.

#BlackFemaleProfessor reprimanded 4pointing out #StructuralRacism

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