College accused of ‘indoctrination’ after department says it will ‘only accept students interested in black studies’
A COLLEGE has been accused of "indoctrination" after its department said it will "only accept students interested in black studies."
The University of Chicago English Department has chosen to only accept applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies for the 2020 to 2021 graduate admissions season - but their decision has sparked controversy across social media.
"As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world.
"We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality."
They added: "We understand Black Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages, and time periods."
Another, columnist Chatterton Williams, tweeted: "I am obviously interested in black culture. But being strong armed into studying it??";
"@UChicago - Black Barbarism takes control of the once great University of Chicago with cowardly capitulation to the worst of the Race Hustling Industry, profiteers from the hatred of the terror & extortion op Black Lives Matter, founded by communists Cullors, Garza & Tometi," another social media user .
"By the logic of their creed, wouldn't English be the oppressor's language?"
A staffer with the condemned school opened up about the "vile piece of racist hate male" being received.
In a Tuesday tweet, the : "It's become such a problem for the administrators that we need to redirect our own emails so that they can slog through all the hate."
"The English department faculty saw a need for additional scholarship in Black studies, and decided to focus doctoral admissions this year on prospective PhD students with an interest in working in and with Black Studies," McSwiggan told the news outlet.
"As with other departments in the University, the department's faculty will decide which areas of scholarship they wish to focus on for PhD admissions in future years."
Earlier this month, when a white professor, , revealed that she pretended to be black during her entire career teaching African history.