Cornell lecturer claims she was fired after suggesting Kamala Harris rose to VP only because of her mother s privileged Indian caste but she hasn t actually worked there since October
J. Khadijah Abdurahman said on Medium she was fired from her role as visiting lecturer and researcher at Cornell Tech by Associate Professor Tapan Parikh
She said she was fired last month following an argument that broke out online
Abdurahman admitted she had shared a GIF of Harris sipping tea to argue the VP was able to rise up the ranks because of her immense social privilege
She claimed she shared the image to call out South Asian anti-blackness and speak out against ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia