A former visiting math professor sued St. Joseph’s University in federal court this month for removing him from the classroom and failing to renew his contract after his anonymous tweets last February against racial-bias training and reparations for slavery.
Gregory Manco, who also lost his job as a St. Joseph’s assistant baseball coach, says the university defamed him, discriminated against him on the basis of his race — he is Caucasian — and attempted to “cancel” him by suspending him and
not renewing his contract, “despite his dedication and excellent performance.” The lawsuit also names a professor and former students who complained about Manco.
The tweets were made on an anonymous account not affiliated with the university.
One said: “Suppose your great-great-grandfather murdered someone. The victim’s great-great-grandson knocks on your door, shows you the newspaper clipping from 1905, and demands compensation from you. Your response? Now get this racist reparation bull— out of your head for good.”
Another questions whether race and bias training “actually divides us and *worsens* race relations?”
Former St. Joe’s professor claims discrimination against the university following his anonymous tweets (msn.com)
It seems to me both you and manco are skipping over context. In your case, youre compartmentalizing and not acknowledging that you directly benefitted from the crimes your father committed. You believe the actions of your father have nothing to do with you when you stand directly on the shoulders of those criminal actions. And maybe not YOU personally but many whites act like the success they have is ONLY because they worked hard and refuse to believe that it was largely funded with blood money and the elimination of competition. Then turn around and say niggas are lazy and if only they worked hard blah blah blah....
Manco's analogy skips over how the murder of the head of the household altered the course of that family but NOT ONLY THAT the subsequent actions of the great great grandfather...denying loans and employment opportunities, foreclosing on that family's home, throwing the sons in jail etc and much of that done consciously maliciously...means the descendants may want to hold someone responsible especially considering the effects of those actions are STILL rippling out 3 generations later.
White people HAVE TO compartmentalize slavery and jim crow era and all the other offenses because the crimes are just too big. Thats why whites in general and conservative whites in particular love bringing up MLK and his dream speech and NEVER quote anything else he said because they want to NOT acknowledge the fucked up shit that went down.
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of a sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.”
- Martin Luther King Jr, 1967
