Professor condemned as racist by her department after supporting colorblind research | The College Fix
Help us spread the word and the WORK of Black, academic professionals, Faas wrote.
But one member of the department, Professor Elizabeth Weiss, offered a contrary viewpoint.
Although the intent of Cite Black Authors may be well-meaning, Weiss, who is tenured, wrote back to her colleagues, as a scholar in search of objective knowledge, I encourage researchers to look for the best source material and realize that an author s ethnicity, race, or color of their skin has no actual bearing on the validity of their contribution.
Months later, Weiss department chair, Roberto Gonzalez, would publicly criticize her, saying she responded to the Cite Black Authors email in an extremely insensitive way.
Can you imagine the reaction of graduate students reading this kind of thing from a fully-tenured professor? Gonzalez said. It was devastating.
Devastating.