"Racism is as American as baseball"

[MalcolmNewton]

PURDUE PROFESSOR DRESSES IN BLACKFACE, NOT REPRIMANDED BECAUSE IT'S "FREE SPEECH"

Lisa Stillman, an instructor in the biology department, put up an old pic from 2016 of herself and a friend in blackface. The picture was posted as a profile pic on facebook and the two wore black makeup on their faces, wigs with bones in their hair, and one had a belly, which obviously means pregnant.

A Purdue student shared her outrage of the photo with NewsOne and also gave an update on what the university advised the professor to do.

“I found one of my professors made their public Facebook profile picture them in blackface. I found this appalling and I reported it to Purdue University,” the student said. “Instead of firing Lisa Stillman, the Purdue administration covered it up and told her to simply delete the photo.”

The student reported the photo on Nov. 10, 2017, 20 days after it was posted but was told the investigation was “completed” and “appropriate action has been taken.”

Purdue University sent the following statement after a call from NewsOne:

"Purdue received an anonymous “hotline” complaint in November 2017 citing two grievances: one about the way an instructor had reprimanded students to enforce lab protocols, and another about a 2016 Facebook post of a 1974 photo showing the same instructor (then age 12) in a ‘blackface’ Halloween costume,” an email from Purdue News Service said. “The university promptly reviewed these complaints, concluding that the instructor had handled the lab incident in a wholly appropriate manner, and that her personal social media post of an old photo was not harassment under Purdue policy. In any event, what we can say firmly is that, at Purdue, we do not punish speech, particularly when off-campus speech is expressed by an employee speaking as a private citizen."

 

[MalcolmNewton]

 

[freakydestroyer]

Black men shopping at T-Mobile held at gunpoint by police after false burglary report

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article214151104.html#storylink=cpy

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Sure other cities deal with this

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[Mark Antony]

Sure other cities deal with this

This is systemic racism.

 

[Deleted member 42060]

race, color, and money. Americans will always have issues with these things.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/princi...to-give-speech-so-rochester-mayor-intervenes/

 

[Mark Antony]

Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/princi...to-give-speech-so-rochester-mayor-intervenes/

Why though? What will be the principal's excuse?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Why though? What will be the principal's excuse?

Basically the student spoke out against things he felt students deserved that the school wasn't providing. I am sure the principal felt he was a "nuisance."

He has no real reason

 

[hand2handking]

other than his racism and privilege

 

[Mark Antony]

Sounds like a sensitive clown that has no business watching over your children.

 

[MalcolmNewton]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I hate how they only step to women when the men aren't around.

 

[AL Andretti]

 

[sonoftony]

guy that snatched the cap got fired from his gig over assault....with soda

 

[Barbados Slim]

That pic was takin in 2016? With what a Polaroid?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[MalcolmNewton]

Mr. racist pool police has been fired from his job

 

[AEA18]

Idiots really don't understand what freedom of speech really means

Hope she loses her job if she even has one.

 

[Barbados Slim]

Dude looks like Dax Shepard

 

[blastercombo]

Yes! Go back into hiding racists. You show your face you get dealt with

 

[sonoftony]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

He was doing too much man. If folks are wearing a hat, let them do them. If it goes past that, then handle it.