The Mirror reports that the professor allegedly used this language while speaking with a Black colleague. That word allegedly left the colleague “crying” and “humiliated.”.
Hundreds of students at the University of Manchester signed a petition that said that others had witnessed this professor use the same language many times since 2021. The letter stated that the professor spoke the word on at least one occasion when he was not reading from a specific text that contained the word.
The reason to include this detail was to clarify that the professor was not simply reading some text that contained the word. That might be more understandable in the minds of some. If the professor was merely using the word in the context of something that happened to have that word contained in it, then some might understand why he said it more, but these students allege that this is not the case.
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The letter claims that the University would only directly apologize to those offended and invest in a rehash of Equality and Diversity issues.
According to the Mirror, the University states that it is investigating the issue and that an apology will be issued to the students in the lecture group.
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Some students said that they felt drained and that their degree was in jeopardy because of having to beg the University to do what they believed it should have been doing anyway.
Some of those same students spoke anonymously to The Mirror and said that an impact statement was written to the lecturer describing how a Black student was left in tears in a seminar taught by that lecturer.
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They told the Mirror: “The black student who came forward about the incident told the lecturer in an impact statement that they were crying after the seminar because they were so shocked and humiliated.”
They became very graphic and detailed in their description of the specific incident that happened by saying in their letter: “In a seminar on human zoos, [the lecturer] was explaining the meaning of the word ‘n*grillon’ (which roughly translates to ‘piccaninny’), when [the lecturer] claimed that the connotations were not particularly offensive and said that it was like ‘the difference between the word negro and n******."
The students firmly believe that the lecturer meant to use the word with ill intent and that he is not apologetic about what he did. They want to see corrective action immediately.
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