'Crazy Lib Ideologist:' Illinois Professor Makes These Insane Demands, And Yes, She Is Serious...

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'Crazy Lib Ideologist:' Illinois Professor Makes These Insane Demands, And Yes, She Is Serious...

A visiting professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Angel Jones, who specializes in Critical Race Theory and critical race feminism, has called for Black faculty to receive special paid time off and mental health therapy to deal with events of alleged police brutality.

The professor's request was published in Times Higher Education on February 23.

"I am a proud educator who loves what I do. But before that, I am a Black woman," Jones wrote. "A Black woman who is expected to return to 'business as usual' on Monday after seeing a member of my community murdered on Friday. Although it is customary for employees to receive support and understanding while grieving the loss of a loved one, the same care is rarely shown to the Black community when we lose someone in horrific and traumatic ways. Where's our Black bereavement leave?"

Jones claims that "racial battle fatigue" can lead to "psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism." She argues that funding should be allocated to the mental health of Black staff and that "culturally competent counselors familiar with identifying and addressing [racial battle fatigue]" should be available at all times.

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"We experience these symptoms on a regular basis as a result of our first-hand racial trauma," Jones stated. "Where are our counseling services? Where is our grace for missed meetings and deadlines while we mourn? Yes, we have jobs to do and students to support, but we also have trauma to process."

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Jones called for "Black bereavement leave" and demanded that Black faculty be allowed to take a day off, work from home, receive a deadline extension, and have their workload reassigned. She believes these benefits will help "for the retention of Black faculty and staff."

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Fox News reached out to Jones for comment on whether she supported bereavement leave for all minorities in oppressed categories, but she did not respond.

Jones also criticized the "obligatory" and "performative" campus-wide statements made to students in the aftermath of racial events in the news, claiming that they did not go far enough to address Black faculty's "trauma," which they need to "process."

"Don't assume you know what they want or need just because you read this article. Anti-Blackness is intentional, so your efforts to combat it must also be," Jones concluded.

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