Boston University was already navigating a racially charged debate in the spring, with a well-known professor arguing that the school’s administration had “fostered a climate of hostility and discrimination against African Americans that is among the worst in the nation,” and calling on the head of the NAACP to cancel his commencement speech there next week. Then things went viral. After the blog SoCawlege pulled together a bunch of comments on social media from Saida Grundy, an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies — such as “Why is white america so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?” — the backlash has been intense.

May 12, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post