GCU suspends professor for Black Lives Matter comments
Last year, a Grand Canyon University professor made negative comments regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.
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PHOENIX — Last year, a Grand Canyon University professor made negative comments regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.
“They are saying things that are not helpful to any way, shape or form of human dignity or flourishing,” Toby Jennings said. “That is not helpful to any conversation. That kind of rhetoric is not helpful to any conversation.
“And that’s what I mean by they should be hung.”
On Tuesday, the school placed him on administrative leave following its investigation.
“The university wants to be clear that the professor’s rhetoric in no way reflects the heart of this university or its dedicated students, faculty and staff,” GCU said in a statement.
“There must be no distance between what we say and what we do. The university has an unprecedented commitment to our community that is expressed on a daily basis through a myriad of programs that reflect the university’s true spirit.”
The comments made by Jennings came after the Black Lives Matter group was brought up during a social justice forum between two African-american professors, one being Jennings, and two Caucasian professors.
The school said it was aware of Jennings’ comments last year, but suspended him after completing its investigation this week.
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"Toby Jennings (a Grand Canyon University professor) said....'That kind of rhetoric is not helpful to any conversation'...'And that’s what I mean by they should be hung.'”
He should be fired...not necessarily for the disparagement of BLM, surely anarcho-trotskyist knotheads are deserving of that, but a 'Professor saying 'hung' instead of hanged should have all parents wondering if they've put their money in the correct school. That mistake is telling.
There is nothing in the BLM movement that suggests that BLM cares one whit about black lives that matter. GCC needs to step back and reevaluate its position in that context. They have quite simply insulted every decent law abiding black American in the community, whom I am sure if you were to ask is their desired target student.
If this guy was White, they would have taken him out back and hung him for saying that.
Truth is, he spoke the truth. Many good people in the BLM and many hateful cop-killers as well. Fact.