Duke professor blasted for racially offensive comments, was already on leave from university
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials say a professor criticized for an online statement comparing blacks and Asians had been on a standard academic leave before posting the comments...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials say a professor criticized for an online statement comparing blacks and Asians had been on a standard academic leave before posting the comments.
In response to a May 9 editorial on racism by The New York Times, political science professor Jerry Hough compared “the blacks” and “the Asians.” He wrote in his online comment that Asians faced racism but “worked doubly hard.”
Criticism included a statement from a university spokesman that Hough’s comments were “noxious” and “offensive.”
Watch a full report on the professor’s offensive comments below:
His full comment in response to the editorial is below:
This editorial is what is wrong. The Democrats are an alliance of Westchester and Harlem, of Montgomery County and intercity Baltimore. Westchester and Montgomery get a Citigroup asset stimulus policy that triples the market. The blacks get a decline in wages after inflation.
But the blacks get symbolic recognition in an utterly incompetent mayor who handled this so badly from beginning to end that her resignation would be demanded if she were white. The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.
In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word “colored.” The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.
So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.
I am a professor at Duke University. 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. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existemt because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.
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.
The chairman of the university’s political science department, Jack Knight, said in an email that Hough was on an academic leave unrelated to the comments.
Knight said that Hough was granted academic leave last year for the 2014-15 school year under the standard policy for faculty.
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