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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While you and your daughter are absolutely right, I would not say anything and get through the class and then complain after she gets her grade.  I had an issue in a class and complained and when it didn't work, went over the professors head (safety issue, not comments I did not agree with) and while the other professor got me out of the situation (internship), it followed me until I graduated.  That professor and a few others treated me very poorly.  It sucks, but in the real world things happen.  Tell her not all white people feel that way, but she isn't going to change a racist, especially in that environment.  I'd encourage her to transfer to a more diverse school that is more welcoming.  (P.S. my child is adopted and I'd tell her the same thing if there were adoption comments - some situations I would speak up but not in a situation like this).  It is good to advocate for yourself but in this situation you cannot change crazy.[/quote]

But why should this be tolerated and let slip?  This professor deserves to be fired.[/quote]

So free speech only is permitted when people say things that black students like to hear?  What nonsense.  The daughter needed to raise her own voice, whether to say that black males don't all hold the same opinion on gay marriage and adoption, she found it offensive for another student (this good ole' boy who apparently is racist, but not homophobic) to suggest older black men were all in prison, whatever.

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