{"id":301564,"date":"2021-03-24T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=301564"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:46:00","slug":"tennessee-professor-forced-to-undergo-training-for-referencing-tupac-album-with-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-professor-forced-to-undergo-training-for-referencing-tupac-album-with-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Professor Forced To Undergo Training For Referencing Tupac Album With Racial Slur"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftennessee-professor-forced-to-undergo-training-for-referencing-tupac-album-with-racial-slur%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=301564&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3247.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville was forced to undergo a racial sensitivity training session for referencing a rapper\u2019s album that contained a \u201cracial epithet\u201d in it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=16942\"><span>Campus Reform<\/span><\/a><span>, Africana studies professor Melissa Hargrove wrote the n-word above the acronym: \u201cNever Ignorant About Getting Goals Accomplished,\u201d when teaching about the title of a 1993 music album by rapper Tupac Shakur. The album is fully titled, \u201cStrictly 4 My N****Z.\u201d Hargrove specializes in researching the hip-hop movement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students posted pictures of the racial slur on social media, which drew the attention of the school administration. In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/africana.utk.edu\/news\/epithet.php\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a><span> to students, the chair of the Africana Studies Program condemned Hargrove for writing the word.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have been confronted with the image of one of our faculty members in Africana Studies standing in front of a whiteboard with a word that presents as a racial epithet for Black people,\u201d Chairwoman Shayla Nunnally <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/africana.utk.edu\/news\/epithet.php\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWithout context and the acronym alone, this word presents a very painful and derogatory one that is not only uncomfortable but also hurtful and troubling.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;The word was written to discuss whether it is appropriate, and why, black people refer to themselves as the \u2018n-word.\u2019&nbsp; The letter admits that the professor teaching the course \u201calso raised the questions and pursuit of knowledge about how Black people have been able to define and identify themselves.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nunnally claimed that the takeaway from Hargrove\u2019s written words was that more people need to understand the \u201cpower dynamics\u201d of race and the history of racism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet us also consider that \u2018the lesson\u2019 in this incident has illustrated even more how complex this languaging may be in any form \u2014 verbal or in print \u2014 and the significance of race, politics, and cultural appropriation. Understanding this is rooted in a knowledge about the power dynamics of race and the history of race relations.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2021\/02\/07\/update-on-incident-in-africana-studies-classroom\/\"><span>update<\/span><\/a><span> to students on the incident, university leadership announced that Hargrove will undergo training to \u201cimprover her presentation of difficult, potentially painful topics.\u201d The university provided a temporary instructor for the class while Hargrove underwent training.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The university has yet to receive a complaint from a single student in the classroom, though students who were not part of the class discussion have demanded that the school terminate Hargrove.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUniversity leaders have had discussions with students who were not a part of the class but who raised concern after a screenshot from the class was posted on social media. Some of these students have demanded that we terminate the faculty member\u2019s employment,\u201d the update <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2021\/02\/07\/update-on-incident-in-africana-studies-classroom\/\"><span>reads<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cThe university has not received a bias report from any student who was present for the class discussion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The school also offered students counseling sessions in light of the incident.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The call for Hargrove\u2019s termination was also pushed by the undergraduate student government. The organization claims that Hargrove has a record of \u201ctraumatizing\u201d black students.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cProfessor Hargrove is infamous among students for traumatizing Black students by eschewing appropriate teaching methods and instead dragging students through generational trauma that persists to this day,\u201d the letter reads.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students said that regardless of Hargrove\u2019s intent to teach difficult content, she still deserved to be fired.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThough Dr. Hargrove may have held \u2018good\u2019 intentions for her class content, good intentions do not validate inflicting trauma. A professor who is at best ignorant to what she inflicts does not belong in her coveted position \u2026 the time for removal has come.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville was forced to undergo a racial sensitivity training session for referencing a rapper\u2019s album that contained a \u201cracial epithet\u201d in it.\u00a0According to Campus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311088,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3247.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee Professor Forced To Undergo Training For Referencing Tupac Album With Racial Slur","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3247.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee Professor Forced To Undergo Training For Referencing Tupac Album With Racial Slur","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301564","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=301564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}