Georgetown fires white law professor for saying black students ‘always’ bottom of the class | Daily Mail Online
‘It happens almost every semester, and it’s like, oh, come on. You know, we get some really good ones but there also usually some of them that are just plain at the bottom,’ Sellers concludes.
Batson, also a mediation law expert, does not initially respond but simply looks down and nods in the short 43-second clip, which was allegedly leaked to social media by a student.
He subsequently returns to discussing the student in question, stating, ‘what drives [him] crazy is…the concept of how that plays out in whether that is [his] own perceptions playing in here with certain people’ or ‘[his] own unconscious biases playing out in the scheme of things’.
The school was immediately called on to act as the video of the interaction spread.
The dean said Thursday that Sellers told him she had intended to resign when they met to discuss what he branded as the ‘reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students’.
She also issued a statement to the Post on Thursday in which she apologized for the ‘hurtful and misdirected remarks’.
‘I would never do anything to intentionally hurt my students or Georgetown Law and wish I could take back my words,’ Sellers said in the resignation letter.
‘Regardless of my intent, I have done irreparable harm and I am truly sorry for this.’
The Zoom call was posted to online database Panopto, where students, who have been attending classes virtually because of the pandemic, can access the recordings.