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Black professors push a major university to diversify and confront racism
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:16 pm
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — When Gary King came to Pennsylvania State University in 1998, records show, fewer than 3 of every 100 full-time faculty members identified, like him, as Black. A medical sociologist with expertise in race and tobacco smoking, King rose on the academic ladder. He gained tenure and promotion to professor of biobehavioral health and African American studies.
One day some years ago, King said, he urged an administrator, who was White, to help recruit more Black professors and other faculty members of color.
“He looked at me and said, point blank, ‘Yes — if they’re qualified,’” King recalled.
King said he was stunned at the not-subtle suggestion that many job candidates from underrepresented minority groups are not qualified. He was stunned, too, that an administrator would dare say that to him.
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Uh, hello??? If someone asked me to help recruit anyone to ANY profession based solely on their skin color, the first words out of my mouth would be, "Sure, if they're qualified."
Yet to the good professor, these words from his white professor friend seem to have sounded like the rantings of a mouth-breathing Klansman.
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Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:17 pm to L.A.
Expecting POC to be qualified for jobs is racist.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:18 pm to L.A.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:21 pm to L.A.
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A medical sociologist with expertise in race and tobacco smoking, King rose on the academic ladder.
You really need a masters to know blacks love menthols and black n milds??
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:22 pm to L.A.
Affirmative action gonna affirmative action...
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:25 pm to L.A.
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King said he was stunned at the not-subtle suggestion that many job candidates from underrepresented minority groups are not qualified.
Come on. Is that REALLY what the administrator meant?
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:31 pm to L.A.
I'm completely at ease with academia being destroyed so this actually gives me hope.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:34 pm to L.A.
They should just hire a bunch of minorities off the street
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:37 pm to L.A.
Imagine an NBA basketball team bring pushed to hire more whites by other white players.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:38 pm to L.A.
An expert on race and tobacco smoking...lol
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:40 pm to L.A.
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He was stunned, too, that an administrator would dare say that to him.
I can't get past this statement.
So the white man had the audacity to not dare suspend all rational thought while engaging him on the issue of race, of which the proffesor had become so accustomed?
And at "point blank" range mind you.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:46 pm to L.A.
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A medical sociologist
Social "sciences".
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:47 pm to L.A.
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“He looked at me and said, point blank, ‘Yes — if they’re qualified,’” King recalled.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 6:59 pm to L.A.
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3 of every 100 full-time faculty members identified, like him, as Black.
I think I know a simple fix here... it’s all in how you identify!!!
Posted on 6/16/21 at 7:05 pm to L.A.
quote:This is as far as I could read before I busted out laughing.
. A medical sociologist with expertise in race and tobacco smoking,
Posted on 6/16/21 at 7:08 pm to L.A.
Here's your first candidate....
Posted on 6/16/21 at 7:10 pm to L.A.
quote:Would he have been equally stunned that many job candidates for faculty jobs at a major state University like PSU were not qualified as well? Has he ever had to screen applicants for faculty positions?
King said he was stunned at the not-subtle suggestion that many job candidates from underrepresented minority groups are not qualified.
Did he believe that the administrator was suggesting that PSU would hire unqualified candidates for faculty positions over qualified ones, regardless of race?
This post was edited on 6/16/21 at 7:11 pm
Posted on 6/16/21 at 7:13 pm to L.A.
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“He looked at me and said, point blank, ‘Yes — if they’re qualified,’” King recalled.
King said he was stunned at the not-subtle suggestion that many job candidates from underrepresented minority groups are not qualified. He was stunned, too, that an administrator would dare say that to him.
The good part is that these universities will run themselves into the ground and completely devalue their product to the point of collapse
Posted on 6/16/21 at 7:16 pm to Amadeo
quote:Ditto
I can't get past this statement.
So the white man had the audacity to not dare suspend all rational thought while engaging him on the issue of race, of which the proffesor had become so accustomed?
And at "point blank" range mind you.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 7:34 pm to L.A.
Why wouldn't you want them to be qualified?
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