3 university professors photographed at campus costume party - wearing confed uniform/ w whip/noose

[Demovictory9]

3 university professors placed on leave after photos surface of them at campus event wearing and holding racist symbols





Wood (left), who was dean of USA's business school at the time, said in a statement his Confederate uniform costume was 'ill-conceived.' Sharland (right), a marketing professor, described his costume as an 'attempt at humor that clearly failed'



Three professors at the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after photos surfaced of them wearing and holding racist symbols at a campus event in 2014, according to a statement from the school.

In two photos verified by university spokesperson Lance Crawford, one professor is pictured wearing a Confederate soldier's uniform, while two other professors posed with a whip and noose.

According to a college statement, the photos were taken at a campus costume party held at the Mitchell College of Business.
The three tenured professors placed on leave are Bob Wood, Alex Sharland, and Teresa Weldy, Crawford told CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/us/alabama-professors-racist-symbols-trnd/index.html

"Seven years ago, I rented and wore a last-minute costume that was ill-conceived to a faculty and student Halloween costume contest, at which I served on a panel of judges to select the winners," Wood said. "I sincerely apologize and am sorry for doing so and ask for forgiveness for this error in judgment."

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Sharland said, "In retrospect, I can see why someone might find the image hurtful, and I regret this attempt at humor that clearly failed. It was not my intent to hurt or be offensive, and if anyone is offended by this picture I apologize."
"It was not my intent to offend, and I have learned from this experience," Sharland added.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9331159/University-South-Alabama-suspends-three-professors-photos-racist-costumes.html

[Walleye]

1. Who thinks a noose is funny?How could she think it wouldn't be offensive?

[underpants]

2. Hold it! South Alabama?!??!

Why I do declare I do feel as the I am succumbing to the vapors.

[greenjar_01]

3. Sharland's apology is the worst

Somebody else might perceive it as bad. I was trying to be funny. It's my internal intention that matters. If you perceived some discomfort yourself, then (and only then) I apologize.

What an asshole.

[Faux pas]

4. Kickin' with disgust!

[dalton99a]

5. Hanging the president was a big RW theme in 2014

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tea-partiers-protest-lynch-obama
Tea Partiers Protest At White House: ‘Hang The Lying Kenyan Traitor’
By Ahiza Garcia | December 12, 2014 2:08 p.m.

Tea partiers shouted obscene, racist chants on Wednesday while gathered outside of the White House to protest President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

Right Wing Watch reported that among the shouts, captured on video by one of the activists, protestors could be heard calling for the hanging of Obama.

“Hang the lying Kenyan traitor!” one protester could be heard saying in the video.

“Plenty of trees in the front yard,” another said. “Wouldn’t be the first one hung on one of them trees.”

“We’ve got rope,” said another.

“Don’t snap his neck, you pull him up watch him choke to death,” someone else said.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. My father-in-law was the first head of the English Department at the University of South Alabama

Don't let the name mislead you. It's in Mobile, and the faculty members I met whenever we visited them were a liberal lot.

[greenjar_01]

9. English Department v. Business School is gonna have a pretty dramatic divide

at pretty much any university in the country, though.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Oh, yes.

[lagomorph777]

7. Idiots.

[Paladin]

8. USA student body: 62% white, 21% Black.

These profs clearly should have known better.