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Should white professors be allowed to use the N-word in class, especially when it is an essential element of the lesson that is being taught?
That question caused an uproar at the University of Illinois at Chicagoâs John Marshall Law School this past winter that still hasnât quite gone away, the professor at the center of the controversy told me.
âThey put me on this ridiculous âindefinite suspension,â â law professor Jason Kilborn told me. âBut it was leave with full pay. So, at least I got a vacation for this entire spring semester.â
Still, he said, heâd rather teach his classes, which were canceled during the investigation. Students had called for Kilborn to be disciplined after he wrote a Civil Procedure exam related to employment discrimination that included redacted versions of the epithets ânââ-â and âbââ,â which he described as âprofane expr
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