NBC News, educators have been forced to resign, apologize, or have been fired.
Raechele Pope, chief diversity officer for the University of Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education says the Zoom mishaps are only proof of a long-existing problem.
“The pandemic, I don’t believe, is bringing this out,” Pope said. “The pandemic is bringing a lot of other things but we started to see it beforehand because cellphones have been so ubiquitous. And so someone pulls up a cellphone and captures a conversation people wouldn’t believe was happening before no matter how many times we told them it was happening.”
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We thank these scholars for their quick responses. Here are their thoughts:
Athena Mutua, professor of law and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar
“The conviction of Derek Chauvin is edifying. A jury of his peers and a multitude of diverse protesters saw the arrogance, felt impunity and depraved indifference with which he needlessly murdered George Floyd. But while Chauvin, the individual, must be held accountable, the problem of police violence in the U.S. is deeper. It is historical, ongoing and systemic authorized by the state, backed by law, institutionalized throughout our political economy, supported culturally and exercised primarily against people of color, the poor and the vulnerable.
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