Lecturer uses word ‘negro’ from black-authored source material, university apologizes to students

[Weatherman2020]

Universities put out pathetic excuses for adults.

Lecturer uses word ‘negro’ from black-authored source material, university apologizes to students.

 

[JGalt]

Good thing the lecturer wasn't reading from Mark Twain. The students would have smashed the windows, looted the televisions and other equipment, and burned the building down.

 

[MarathonMike]

What would have happened if he had read Huckleberry Finn? They may have had to close the school.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Universities put out pathetic excuses for adults.

Lecturer uses word ‘negro’ from black-authored source material, university apologizes to students.

The word really shouldn't be treated as offensive. It is the most proper word to refer to the “black” race, in the same sense that “Caucasian” is the most proper formal word to refer to the “white” race.

 

[luchitociencia]

From now on, every lecture in universities, when mentioning black people from old books, the reader must say... "the unpronounceable word"

Example

10 Poems by African-American Poets | JSTOR Daily

As Langston Hughes pointed out in his famous essay “200 Years of American the unpronounceable word Poetry,” “Poets and versifiers of African descent have been publishing poetry on American shores since the year 1746 when a slave woman named Lucy Terry penned a rhymed description of an Indian attack on the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts.”

Rather than

As Langston Hughes pointed out in his famous essay “200 Years of American Negro Poetry,” “Poets and versifiers of African descent have been publishing poetry on American shores since the year 1746 when a slave woman named Lucy Terry penned a rhymed description of an Indian attack on the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts.”

Peace.

 

[Augustine_]

Universities put out pathetic excuses for adults.

Lecturer uses word ‘negro’ from black-authored source material, university apologizes to students.

Your butt must be in serious pain over this

 

[Weatherman2020]

Universities put out pathetic excuses for adults.

Lecturer uses word ‘negro’ from black-authored source material, university apologizes to students.

Your butt must be in serious pain over this

Give to the United Negro College Fund while you still can.

I wonder if you Leftards know what C stands for in NAACP.