Group sues over professor’s firing for racial comments on TV
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NEWARK, N.J. — A non-profit organization claims in a lawsuit that a New Jersey college has illegally withheld documents concerning the firing of an instructor over racially charged comments she made in a television interview.
Essex County College fired adjunct professor Lisa Durden in June after she made comments on Fox News defending a Black Lives Matter event that only invited black people. Durden is black.
When show host Tucker Carlson asked her thoughts, Durden interrupted him, saying: “Boo hoo hoo. You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your white privilege card” to attend the event.
Durden was suspended two days later and later fired. Essex County College president Anthony Munroe said at the time the school had been “inundated” with messages from students and parents expressing concern about the comments.
