“It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state. King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.”
A Duke University professor is on leave after he posted racially-charged comments on a news website comment section.
WTVD reported that some students said Professor Jerry Hough was disrespectful and insensitive when he left a comment on a New York Times editorial.
In the recent post, he made references to “the blacks” and “the Asians” in response to an editorial about racism and the Baltimore riots.
Hough is listed as a political science professor on Duke’s website. He also made comparisons to minority groups in America.
In one paragraph he wrote, “Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration.”
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