Professor fired for "being white" @ historically black college!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Professor fired for being white: "Black Power" administrator costs university $4.8 million

November 4, 2015

By Blake Neff

A historically black college in St. Louis, Mo., has been forced to cough up $4.85 million to a fire professor when a court found the woman was fired for being white.

Beverly Wilkins was a professor at Harris-Stowe State University's College of Education from 2001 until 2010, when she was fired. In 2012, though, she struck back with a lawsuit, saying her departure wasn?t for budgetary or performance reasons but instead was due to an administrator's vendetta against the white race.

According to Wilkins' lawsuit, she started to be pushed out at Harris-Stowe after the college hired Latisha Smith as a faculty member in 2007. Smith was  quickly promoted to assistant dean and then dean of the College of Education, and Wilkins said she subscribed to a "black power" ideology that drove her to purge the college of all whites. In 2010 Wilkins was fired, with Smith blaming the move on state budget cuts. Wilkins says every white professor at the school was ultimately let go, except for one protected by tenure. Meanwhile, only one black professor was let go, and it was due to a sex crime conviction.

While Harris-Stowe's budget was used to justify Wilkins termination, shortly after she was let go the school hired two new (black) professors to teach her classes, at a combined salary higher than what Wilkins earned.

Smith attempted to conceal her behavior by deleting emails, but some slipped through the cracks and provided critical evidence for the lawsuit. In one email, a black instructor complained to Smith about her egregious prejudice.

"I am floored to know that we have an interim leader that has voiced her prejudice so openly to me and others," the email, published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, says.

Smith no longer serves as dean, but her acts have still put the school on the hook for millions.

The ruling, delivered by a jury, awards Wilkins $1.35 million in compensation for lost wages and emotional distress, as well as $3.5 million in punitive damages. The ruling could potentially be modified by a judge.

Neither Wilkins nor Harris-Stowe are commenting on the ruling, though Harris-Stowe board member Ronald Norwood described the outcome as ?regrettable? in a statement to the Post-Dispatch, suggesting the school might appeal.

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[Xavier_Onassis]

This does not surprise me at all. We had a couple of White people haters in our administration as well. Neither of them was brave enough to fire anyone, and one of them actually hated people in general, only she hated White people more.

The lawsuit will certainly be noticed. and will make a big difference.

[kimba1]

Love that she's open enough to do it on e-mail which has never ever been shown to be safe.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Usually when a school loses a salary dispute they make the recipient sign something to never reveal the amount of the settlement. My opinion that this should never be permitted.

Private colleges have way too many administrators: deans, chairmen, provosts, with few powers and duties and large salaries. It is typical to invent a new administrator position for friends, relatives and fraternity and sorority pals. Then they replace experienced professors with adjuncts that have no benefits and rarely get a raise. This happens in both White and Black private schools, but the Black ones are less discreet about it.