{"id":4415,"date":"2013-12-21T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2013-12-21T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T19:34:10","slug":"student-speaks-out-against-racist-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/21\/student-speaks-out-against-racist-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Speaks Out Against Racist Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The student, who was a <a title=\"Being \u201cAnti-Racist\u201d Doesn\u2019t Justify Racial Harassment\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/03\/being-anti-racist-doesnt-justify-racial-harassment\/\" target=\"_blank\">target<\/a> of a screed by a &#8220;Professor of English and African diaspora&#8221; at a Minnesota community college who was reprimanded for harassing students with a racially derogatory rant, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/09\/mctc-racism_n_4394555.html?ir=Black%20Voices\" target=\"_blank\">speaking out<\/a> against her accusatory ramblings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4416\" title=\"discrimination\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/discrimination.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/discrimination.jpg 400w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/discrimination-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Considering that the Professor has <a title=\"Through a Racial Lens\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/12\/through-a-racial-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\">outed<\/a> herself as a race obsessed bundle of hate and accusation, the statement by the former student at the school newspaper is but cooroboration.\u00a0 The staff member, Ryan Trainor, felt <em>personally<\/em> targeted, and her subsequent actions and harassment lead to his filing a formal complaint of racial harassment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Trainor said that Gibney that year brought her journalism class to sit in and observe a regular meeting of the City College News staff. At one point, he says, Gibney offered some unprompted advice to the paper&#8217;s editors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;According to Trainor, [Professor of English and African diaspora] Gibney said the newspaper&#8217;s readership problems were partly due to the &#8216;systematic oppression of non-white males in journalism,&#8217; and that &#8216;it&#8217;s white men that are the problem in this newsroom.&#8217; Trainor said the staff felt vilified and singled out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&#8220;Trainor said he subsequently emailed Gibney to voice how upset he was about the episode, saying that her remarks were &#8216;racist,&#8217; an &#8216;unprofessional tirade&#8217; and unfair toward the all-white staff, according to emails provided to HuffPost. Trainor, who was the newspaper&#8217;s opinion editor at the time, said the paper had never turned away anyone of color.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;We never tried to discourage anybody from writing\u2026 We&#8217;d never done anything to discourage any point of view. The makeup of our staff was not our fault.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Far too often the lunacy that Gibney goes not only unpunished, but actually rewarded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/collegeinsurrection.com\/2013\/12\/white-college-student-accused-of-racism-by-black-prof-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">College Insurrection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The student, who was a target of a screed by a &#8220;Professor of English and African diaspora&#8221; at a Minnesota community college who was reprimanded for harassing students with a racially derogatory rant, is speaking out against her accusatory ramblings. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/21\/student-speaks-out-against-racist-accusations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[46,48],"class_list":["post-4415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-kyriarchy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}