Professor Targeted With Racist Signs After Promoting Class About Dismantling White Supremacy

The director of the African-American-studies program at the University of Montana has been targeted for teaching a new class: โ€œWhite Supremacy History/Defeat.โ€ Professor Tobin Miller Shearer says that a flyer he put up detailing the new class was recently replaced by a sign that advertises a new, made-up class: โ€œBlack Nationalism History/Defeat.โ€ Suggested Reading Three…

The director of the African-American-studies program at the University of Montana has been targeted for teaching a new class: โ€œWhite Supremacy History/Defeat.โ€ Professor Tobin Miller Shearer says that a flyer he put up detailing the new class was recently replaced by a sign that advertises a new, made-up class: โ€œBlack Nationalism History/Defeat.โ€

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The Missoulian reports that Shearer first noticed the change Thursday morning. The professor said he was disturbed by the amount of time it must have taken to mimic his flyer.

From The Missoulian:

Whoever made the new flyer had copied Shearerโ€™s layout, including the font and location of a photo, and changing the bullet points of the course objectives from ones like Shearerโ€™s โ€œImplement and evaluate a project to dismantle white supremacy in the U.S.โ€ to the same line directed at โ€œblack nationalism.โ€

The false sign said the class also would include group projects โ€œaimed at dismantling race-baiting hypocrisy.โ€๏ปฟ

Shearer told the paper that although he isnโ€™t surprised by the incident, โ€œI am disturbed by this.โ€ The professor reportedly landed on a national โ€œProfessor Watchlistโ€ by Turning Point USA, a conservative group, for promoting a โ€œradical agendaโ€ and discriminating against conservative students.

The person who put up the flyer could very well teach a class in false equivalency. Because however you may want to equate white supremacy and black nationalism (weโ€™re going to say it one more time for the cheap seats in the back), this country was not founded on black nationalism. Miscegenation laws werenโ€™t created in the 1600s because of black nationalism. Voting and property laws were not created or informed by black nationalism.

One detail that stuck out to him about the fake-course flyer was that his name had been replaced by that of the former head of the African-American-studies department.

โ€œItโ€™s at best someone who knows the history of the program. At worst, itโ€™s another faculty member who knows the history,โ€ Shearer said.

Read more at The Missoulian.

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