Prof. suspended for saying Black Lives Matter members should be ‘hung’
AÂ Grand Canyon University theology professor has been suspended after suggesting that members of the Black Lives Matter movement should be “hung.”
Dr. Toby Jennings was speaking at a conference last September when he was asked is opinion on Black Lives Matter. While Jennings allowed that the movement did have some good people in it, he suggested that others were not.
“They’re wanting to hear what somebody else has to say about it,” Jennings said, “and you have people on the opposite extreme of that that frankly should be hung.”
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When the audience gasped, Jennings went on, “That kind of rhetoric is not helpful to any conversation and that’s what I mean by they should be hung.”
According to the university, the College of Theology spoke to Jennings about the incident, but no one in the top brass were notified. The university has since distanced itself from the comments.
“Yes, it was wrong, but it is an isolated incident and it does not represent who our faculty is and it does not represent who our students are,” said Brian Mueller, GCU’s president.
GCU has also stated that it apologized to Black Lives Matter and privately met with the group over the incident.
