{"id":1386591,"date":"2022-03-17T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386591"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:06:51","slug":"a-columbia-university-doctor-was-suspended-after-a-complimentary-tweet-about-a-black-woman-students-want-him-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-columbia-university-doctor-was-suspended-after-a-complimentary-tweet-about-a-black-woman-students-want-him-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"A Columbia University Doctor Was Suspended After A Complimentary Tweet About A Black Woman. Students Want Him Fired."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-columbia-university-doctor-was-suspended-after-a-complimentary-tweet-about-a-black-woman-students-want-him-fired%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-164217373.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A top psychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center commented on a photo of model Nyakim Gatwech, who is of South Sudanese descent, and now the doctor\u2019s been suspended \u2013 with students demanding he be fired.<\/p>\n<p>On February 21, psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman quote-tweeted an image of Gatwech. The original tweet said that Gatwech was \u201cnot a work of art made of black stone or granite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweeted added, falsely, that Gatwech is \u201cin the Guinness Book of World Records for having the darkest skin ever seen on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman quote-tweeted the image and tweet and added: \u201cWhether a work of art or freak of nature she\u2019s a beautiful sight to behold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This tweet, which had nothing to do with Lieberman\u2019s job at Columbia, caught the attention of Gatwech, who posted it on her Instagram account. Gatwech underlined the words \u201ca work of\u201d and \u201cor freak of nature,\u201d but did not say she found the phrases offensive. She did, however, take issue with the original tweet\u2019s claim that she was in the Guinness Book of World Records for her skin color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time I address a a [sic] rumor ONCE and for all. I have no idea where it originated, but my manager first brought it to my attention in 2020 and although we\u2019ve denied it to multiple fact-checkers, clearly it\u2019s still floating around even after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guinnessworldrecords\/\">@guinnessworldrecords<\/a> stated that it does NOT monitor skin tones. I can\u2019t imagine it\u2019s even possible to know who\u2019s the lightest or darkest person on the planet!\u201d Gatwech wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaS9Oaov3Vp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lieberman\u2019s tweet caught the attention of someone at Columbia, prompting him to send an apology to his peers prior to his suspension. In his email, Lieberman apologized for his \u201cracist and sexist\u201d tweet, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/23\/nyregion\/columbia-jeffrey-lieberman.html\">reported<\/a>. He also said he was \u201cdeeply ashamed\u201d of his \u201cprejudices and stereotypical assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn apology from me to the Black community, to women, and to all of you is not enough,\u201d Lieberman wrote in the email, according to The Times. \u201cI\u2019ve hurt many, and I am beginning to understand the work ahead to make needed personal changes and over time to regain your trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman was suspended and \u201cremoved from his position as psychiatrist-in-chief at Columbia University Irving Medical Center\/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>That all happened in late February. The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/after-top-columbia-doc-suspended-for-calling-a-black-woman-beautiful-students-still-want-him-fired\/\">reported<\/a> that students don\u2019t think Lieberman was punished enough for his tweet, which may have been poorly worded but was clearly meant as a complement to Gatwech. A group of unsigned psychiatry residents and graduates wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrBryanLeyva\/status\/1500556182888538121\">open letter<\/a> on March 6 demanding Lieberman be fired as a faculty member, claiming his tweet was just one example of a \u201cpattern of insensitive and offensive behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter claimed his tweet was \u201cclearly racist and sexist\u201d and a \u201cbrazen dehumanization of black women.\u201d Further, the residents and graduates claimed Lieberman\u2019s wording \u201cso clearly recall structural violence perpetrated against historically marginalized communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026His permanent removal is one of many ways we can demonstrate to our community that regardless of status and title, Columbia has zero tolerance and is committed to combatting prejudice and bias in medicine,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top psychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center commented on a photo of model Nyakim Gatwech, who is of South Sudanese descent, and now the doctor\u2019s been suspended \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}