Georgetown Law professor terminated after 'reprehensible' comments about Black students

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Georgetown Law professor terminated after ‘reprehensible’ comments about Black students

By Lauren Lumpkin
March 11, 2021 at 2:13 p.m. EST

A Georgetown law professor was terminated and a second was placed on leave after a video clip showed a conversation between the pair that included what an official called “reprehensible” statements about Black students, officials said Thursday.

The conversation between adjunct professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson had triggered an investigation by Georgetown University’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action. The school’s Black Law Students Association had called for Sellers’s firing.

The video clip — which was shared on Twitter this week — showed Sellers discussing student performance.

“I hate to say this. I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks,” Sellers said in the video. “Happens almost every semester. And it’s like, ‘Oh, come on.’ You get some really good ones, but there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”

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negotiations Professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson being openly racist on a recorded Zoom call.

Beyond unacceptable.

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Lauren Lumpkin
Lauren Lumpkin is a reporter at The Washington Post covering local colleges and universities. Follow https://twitter.com/laurenmlumpkin

[SharonClark]

1. What is shocking and yet somehow amusing

is that a professor at a top law school thought her racist statements on Zoom were private.

[IronLionZion]

2. "I hate to say this"

It sounds like she loves to say this.

[MichMan]

3. Is Georgetown planning to release the stats proving her to be a liar?

Should be easy to prove that the Black students excelled in other classes except for hers and she graded them unfairly.