Vanderbilt Professor Calls Parents ‘Ignorant Racist[s]’ for Opposing Critical Race Theory

Vanderbilt University
by Terrance Kible

 

A Vanderbilt University professor recently said that parents who oppose Critical Race Theory (CRT) are “ignorant racist[s].”

“Meanwhile, ignorant racist [sic] are worried about scaring their kids w CRT,” Gilman Whiting tweeted last month after a bomb threat against Howard University, an historically Black college in Washington, DC.

Earlier the same day, Whiting tweeted, “[S]chool boards across the country are banning teaching history while ignorantly calling it CRT.”

Between these tweets, Whiting opined that individuals were using their opposition to CRT to disguise their true intentions: eliminating equity in schools and “not teaching Black, Brown, & indigenous history, [and] banning books.”

Yes, Every Kid

Whiting, whose pinned tweet accuses another user of being “ignorant or simply racist or probably both,” holds three positions at Vanderbilt University. He is an Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, the Director of the Scholar Identity Institute, and the Director of Graduate Studies for African American and Diaspora Studies.

Whiting received his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a focus on special education populations from Purdue University in 2004. He also holds an individualized M.A. in multicultural education and urban affairs from Rhode Island College.

Whiting’s areas of specialization include special needs populations, which he identifies as “at-risk learners, gifted identification, adult learners, incarceration of young Black men, [and] special education”; as well as urban education and achievement, including black identity and masculinity; and race, poverty, and fatherhood initiatives.

Campus Reform reached out to Vanderbilt University, Whiting, and Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, the chair of African American and Diaspora Studies, for comment. At the time of publication, none had responded to Campus Reform’s request for comment.

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Terrance Kible is a first-year law student at the Duquesne University School of Law. He is hoping to pursue a career as an appellate litigator. Terrance is also a member of his university’s Federalist Society and Criminal Law Society.
Photo “Vanderbilt University” by Stablenode CC BY-SA 4.0.

 

 

 

 

 


Appeared at and reprinted from campusreform.org

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28 Thoughts to “Vanderbilt Professor Calls Parents ‘Ignorant Racist[s]’ for Opposing Critical Race Theory”

  1. […] Vanderbilt Prof Calls Parents ‘Ignorant Racist[s]’ for Opposing CRT […]

  2. Sim

    The Democrat party is the one accused of “Stealing votes” in the last election,

    Yet they are the ones crying about “Voting Rights”.

    Evidently, even with a “PhD”, some can’t make the connection between the two.

    But after all, they are “Democrats”.

  3. Hank

    It sounds like this dude is campaigning for a position with the biden administration. He would probably fit right in with the drag queens, tranny’s & other mis-fits that have been appointed by the D.C. swamp.

  4. JB Taylor

    Living proof that an education does not make you intelligent.

  5. ilLestr8tr

    To think that students waste their money sending kids to mental institutions like this, racking up massive debt in the process in many cases. And now many employers are hesitant to hire college grads because of their lack of any real hands-on skills, lack of creativity, lack of initiative, the emotional baggage they bring along with them, sense of entitlement, etc.

    1. ilLestr8tr

      Correction…”parents waste their money”

  6. David H

    Ask the Leftists >
    1, What is CRT? (they will probably say it is “an academic framework”)
    2. Exactly what would you teach that CRT is?
    3. Exactly what “history” would you teach? (They will probably say “the truth”. My reply is that every Southern slave owner during the Civil War was a Democrat and the Democrats were the party that wanted slavery. Do they want to teach that?)
    4. Would you teach that Black people are oppressed victims and that all White people are “privileged” and racists?

    They can’t answer those questions.

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