Students and other young people are engaging with the social justice work of Future Ancestors. Photo supplied by Chanèle Couture
The students from a French-language school board in British Columbia who Chanèle Couture connected with virtually in a recent workshop were very engaged in the anti-racism work she presented, and the summer camp staffers she’s preparing to address are also eager to learn.
Couture is hoping such interest and broader demand for services from Future Ancestors Services Inc. help empower Black, Indigenous and other people of colour (BIPOC) seeking anti-racism policies to help deal with microaggressions and systemic obstacles they face in schools and elsewhere.
Georgetown Law has fired one of its white professors for admitting during what she believed to be a private Zoom call that the black students in her class perform “just plain at the bottom.”
Sandra Sellers, 62, was speaking to Prof. David Batson about how “a lot of my lower ones are blacks,” referring to the students in her class with the worst academic performance.
“They were a bit jumbled,” Sellers said of one of her student’s performance, who according to the Black Law Students Association was the only black student in Sellers’ mediation and negotiation class.
“It’s like, let me reason through that, what you just said,” Sellers added in frustration. “You know what? I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester, that a lot of my lower ones are blacks.”
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Canceled for not calling her out: Second Georgetown Law professor resigns after failing to correct colleague who was fired for saying black students are plain bottom of her class in leaked Zoom call
David Batson was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conversation with Professor Sandra Sellers that went viral last week
On Saturday Georgetown confirmed that Batson had submitted his resignation
Sellers, 62, was fired after video showed her complaining to Batson about how black students were predominantly at the bottom of her class
Neither Batson nor Sellers appeared to realized their Zoom call was still being recorded after they dismissed students from a video lecture