{"id":1900675,"date":"2023-03-18T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-dei-director-says-she-was-bullied-out-of-job-called-a-white-supremacist-for-considering-perspectives-of-all-races\/"},"modified":"2023-03-18T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:57:16","slug":"black-dei-director-says-she-was-bullied-out-of-job-called-a-white-supremacist-for-considering-perspectives-of-all-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-dei-director-says-she-was-bullied-out-of-job-called-a-white-supremacist-for-considering-perspectives-of-all-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Black DEI Director Says She Was \u2018Bullied\u2019 Out Of Job, Called A \u2018White Supremacist\u2019 For Considering Perspectives Of All Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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%2Fblack-dei-director-says-she-was-bullied-out-of-job-called-a-white-supremacist-for-considering-perspectives-of-all-races%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=1900675&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--><p> <span>California college&#8217;s director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), said that she was &#8220;harassed and bullied&#8221; Because she wanted to reflect on the perspectives of people of all races, she quit her job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Tabia Lee is black and told <\/span><span>The New York Post<\/span><span> De Anza College in Cupertino California labeled her &#8220;against the law&#8221; &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; After she had pushed to &#8220;create safe spaces for everyone.&#8221; Lee stated that she was denied tenure during her review and will be out on June 15th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Some people wanted me to create spaces that were just safe for them, and that&#8217;s not my mission as an educator,&#8221; Lee stated. &#8220;That&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m here to do.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lee was a middle-school teacher for many years and an adjunct professor before being hired as the DEI director at De Anza. She described the position as &#8220;a challenging job.&#8221; &#8220;dream come true,&#8221; According to the Post, Lee was focused on designing workshops that promote inclusion. Lee stated that she had been at De Anza since the beginning. &#8220;daily, endless harassment right from the start.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lee once said that she was puzzled why school communications are capitalized. &#8220;Black&#8221; But not! &#8220;white.&#8221; She referred to the National Association of Black Journalists recommendations that all racial groups be capitalized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;For that, I was accused of being a white supremacist,&#8221; She said. &#8220;These constant accusations of calling people racist or calling them a white supremacists or saying that they&#8217;re aligned with right wingers \u2014 that&#8217;s such ridiculousness. It&#8217;s very damaging.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lee tried to create a summit on anti-Semitism. Jewish students and faculty approached her to tell her they had been subject to anti-Semitism. But, she claimed that some co-workers thought it was unnecessary because they were white oppressors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also claimed that she was subject to criticism from coworkers for declining an invitation to join campus socialist networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I do not identify as a liberal or a conservative or a Republican or a Democrat or a libertarian or socialist or a communist or a feminist,&#8221; She spoke to the Post. &#8220;I don&#8217;t identify with any of those labels, so I just had no interest in being a part of that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lee stated that there are many others who look like her in DEI jobs. &#8220;are trying to do it in an inclusive way \u2026 actually being inclusive,&#8221; She lamented this however &#8220;those people are targeted for elimination and neutralization \u2026 by people who are working from extreme ideologies.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lee has not ruled it out of taking legal action against college <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Paula Norsell, De Anza&#8217;s Communications Coordinator, responded to Lee\u2019s allegations and told the Post &#8220;faculty members have comprehensive due process and appeal rights both under the law and negotiated through their bargaining unit.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-dei-director-says-she-was-bullied-out-of-job-called-a-white-supremacist-for-considering-perspectives-of-all-races\">Black DEI Director Says She Was \u2018Bullied&#8217; Out Of Job, Called A \u2018White Supremacist&#8217; For Considering Perspectives Of All Races<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at a California college said she was \u201charassed and bullied\u201d out of her job because she wanted to consider the perspectives of people from all races equally.\u00a0 Dr. Tabia Lee, who is black, told The New York Post that faculty at De Anza College in Cupertino, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1900676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[22101,4212,3781,16574,6350,7819,16492,8603,12633,3765],"class_list":["post-1900675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bullied","tag-black","tag-called","tag-dei","tag-director","tag-job","tag-perspectives","tag-races","tag-supremacist","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900675","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}