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The Real Side | Commentary by Joe Messina
| Wednesday, May 27, 2015

joemessinamugIt seems the more stories I do about our institutions of higher learning, the more I come to the conclusion there are no real standards for those teaching our young people. You might need a degree in order to teach, but that’s about all. Honor and integrity are no longer required.

Once again, my home state of Massachusetts shows that no matter how bad one’s character is, as long as they have a degree and are flaming liberals, they’re in. Boston University first realized it had an issue with incoming BU sociology professor Saida Grundy when a Tweet she sent out was brought to the administration’s attention: “White male college students are a ‘problem population’” and “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.”

She is a black college professor, not that it should matter. As a professor, she is supposed to have open dialogue with her students. Can you imagine if a white college professor Tweeted, “Black male college students are a problem population and their entitlement mindset is a major problem for American colleges?” They’d be fired before the moving truck got there.

Well, OK. So we are a little sensitive about the color thing. She got a little heated. We can overlook her one indiscretion, right? But it wasn’t one or two or even three. And let’s not stop at four, but six – that we know of. You see, Professor Grundy thinks, like Hillary, that rules, guidelines and basically good behavior do not apply to her.

The professor decided mercilessly to ridicule a white rape victim on social media with the following:

“This is the s–t I am talking about. Why do you get to play the victim every time people of color and our allies want to point out racism? My claws? Do you see how you just took an issue that wasn’t about you, made it about you, and now want to play the victim when I take the time to explain to you some s–t that is literally $82,000 below my pay grade? And then you promote your #whitegirltears like that’s some badge you get to wear … You benefit from racism. We’re explaining that to you and you’re vilifying my act of intellectual altruism by saying I stuck my ‘claws’ into you?”

Hello? The woman was raped as a child. And when the rape victim under attack tried to bow out gracefully, the professor tried to pull her back in with more nasty comments. Since the professor makes $82,000 and is above the raped woman’s pay grade, shouldn’t she have taken the high road? She could have taken her educated backside out of the conversation and dropped it. Is this really someone we want teaching our young people? Maybe someone with a little empathy or compassion?

This perfect specimen of a well-educated human being apparently felt “white” people had so much privilege, she was going to get back at them. How? Identity theft. At first she would not admit it was her, but the truth eventually catches up with you.

In 2007, Grundy, in a fit of jealous rage, decided to sign up a Virginia woman for as many “tryst” sites as possible. She wanted to humiliate the woman. She published the woman’s personal information on sites that endangered the woman’s life. That’s not according to Joe, but according to the police department.

Eventually, Grundy was charged with identity theft and the use of computers to commit a crime – both felonies. Grundy pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor count in exchange for the dismissal of the felonies. Her probation ended in June 2009. Now, eight years later, we’re supposed to forget and move on. That would be fine, if she had changed. But she started stirring things up again.

Does this mean as long as you’re a black female academic, you can do no wrong? Does it mean everything is fair game? Even to the point of ridiculing a “white” rape victim? Where’s the apology for the victim?

What a great role model for our young minds, right? As if that weren’t enough, Professor Grundy also said she “tries to avoid shopping at white-owned businesses.” (You can’t make this stuff up.) Last week, after several alumni complaints, Boston University president Robert Brown condemned the racist tweets, sending an email to faculty: “We are disappointed and concerned by statements that reduce individuals to stereotypes on the basis of a broad category such as sex, race or ethnicity.” Even so, the school refused to rescind her employment offer.

A message from BU’s African American Studies faculty welcomed Grundy, saying she had been hired after a nationwide search and chosen from more than 100 applicants. The post mentioned Grundy’s tweets and said they’ve been “shocked by the number of voicemails left and the hostile emails sent to our office and our individual accounts. … However, most troubling was that among the numerous that were serious expressions of dismay were many vile messages, explicitly racist and obscene, that consider cyber-bullying a substitute for frank discussion and freedom of speech.”

Did you catch that? Faculty members were more upset by the tone of the emails and voice messages from those opposed to Grundy’s employment than the ugly, hateful things Grundy had actually done and even admitted to doing.

What’s a sane person to conclude? Make sure you are a hateful, nasty, vicious, liberal professor looking for work at a university and you’re in. People with honor and integrity need not apply.

 

 

Joe Messina is host of The Real Side (TheRealSide.com), a nationally syndicated talk show that runs on AM-1220 KHTS radio and SCVTV [here]. He is also an elected member of the Hart School Board. His commentary publishes Mondays.

 

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7 Comments

  1. MSC45 says:

    This has nothing to do with her politics, Joe. Racists come in all colors, genders, and political persuasions, unfortunately. Rest assured that we liberals are just as offended by her as you are, and for once, we share your views.

  2. All liberals are not the same.

  3. Intelligence and smart…are distal side’s of the same coin.

  4. Intelligence and smart…are distal side’s of the same coin.

  5. Kory Abel says:

    Very Very True She deserves To Be Fired Anyone Who is racist white black Mexican red green blue can’t be calling people racist when they’re the ones themselves. Just another hypocrit Joe you called it no integrity how is she still employed??

  6. Well I agree with Joe Messina. Seems like this double standard will never end. She would be fired if she were white.

  7. Gary says:

    Joe, why do you keep harping on whatever can be found wrong with blacks and “liberals”? This is a beam in your own eye? Your latent hatred towards blacks and others different than you keeps bubbling to the surface and you cannot seem to contain it.

    Usually when someone acts out the way you do, be it against gays, or against this or that hot topic, they’re conflicted in their own lives.

    I’m starting to suspect you have dark secrets in there someplace, Joe. You’re ranting against your own problems?

    Remember that “pastor” from Colorado who ended being a crack-head who hired male prostitutes and did drugs with them before their sexcapades? Oh, he was righteous – and had a large mega-church following. Always condemning others, was he.

    Where are your POSITIVE comments to society? Where are you building us up? Instead, always, always, rants against minorities, gays, blacks, liberals, etc.

    What’s really rolling around in the back of your mind?

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