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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 5, 2017, 08:43 PM Oct 2017

UM professor finds racially-charged flyer on African-American studies program board

University of Montana professor Tobin Miller Shearer, director of the African-American studies program, said he noticed something was wrong right away Thursday morning as he passed the bulletin board in the Liberal Arts building on campus.

The day before, Shearer had posted a flyer outlining a new class he is offering in the spring: “White Supremacy History/Defeat.”

But on Thursday morning, another sign — designed to look just like Shearer’s poster — had been put up atop his, this one detailing a fictitious course “Black Nationalism History/Defeat.”

Whoever made the new flyer had copied Shearer’s layout, including the font and location of a photo, and changing the bullet points of the course objectives from ones like Shearer’s “Implement and evaluate a project to dismantle white supremacy in the U.S.” to the same line directed at “black nationalism.”

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/um-professor-finds-racially-charged-flyer-on-african-american-studies/article_58c71db5-2689-55ba-a637-26fb7df5f166.html#tncms-source=home-latest-2

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UM professor finds racially-charged flyer on African-American studies program board (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2017 OP
Great. Just great. MontanaMama Oct 2017 #1
My sympathy for having to put up with that crap. TexasTowelie Oct 2017 #2
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