{"id":1117,"date":"2017-02-06T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2017-02-08T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:22:34","slug":"professor-told-colleagues-students-werent-americans-stupid-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/2017\/02\/professor-told-colleagues-students-werent-americans-stupid-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor told colleagues and students they weren\u2019t Americans for this stupid reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/633701132\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/633701132?et=oDSrzrzBSKdW9c6kVP3ZzQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=uct366xOQE8mM3eXuBlKJh-U6_AbZmLLeB1p44N4b_Y=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m getting really tired of these fascist professors who claim to be open-minded\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">when their views are more closed than anyone else\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Norou Diawara is one of them. He is an associate professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, and apparently, he gets to decide who is and isn\u2019t an American. He sent an e-mail to the Coalition of Black Faculty and Administrators and some graduate students telling them he is \u201cnot happy at all with the state of the affairs in the USA\u201d and expressed his sadness that \u201cwe have come to this level.\u201d The purpose of his writing was to inform his colleagues about a few upcoming events scheduled on campus, including a rally organized by Democrats to show support for refugees and oppose President Trump\u2019s executive order banning travel from terror-tied countries in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>But Diawara added an addendum \u2014 a threat, almost \u2014 to the end of his e-mail. It was in all caps, so you know he REALLY meant it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BUT REALLY SCREW YOU IF YOU CANNOT GO TO ANY OF THESE EVENTS. YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN.<\/p>\n<p>With Very Best Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Norou<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really like that last part.<\/p>\n<p>Diawara regretted sending the message and typed up a new one to apologize for his lapse in judgment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2017\/02\/02\/you-are-not-american-virginia-college-professor-apologizes-for-provocative-email-to-colleagues\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Blaze<\/a>\u00a0wasn\u2019t given the all of the second e-mail but said the professor told his colleagues, \u201cwe should not be sitting down and being passive\u201d with Trump\u2019s travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we can all take care of each other instead of being passive,\u201d Diawara wrote, sans all caps.<\/p>\n<p>Old Dominion University Provost Austin Agho condemned the professor\u2019s first e-mail saying it didn\u2019t reflect the school\u2019s values, but also promised that ODU \u201cnurtures a climate of care, concern and civility toward others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it sounds like it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, more of that tolerance from the Left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2846,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Professor told colleagues and students they weren\u2019t Americans for this stupid reason<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ah, more of that tolerance from the Left.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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