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One Georgetown University law professor is no longer employed by the school, and the second has been placed on administrative leave, according to officials.
Georgetown University Fires Law Professor After ‘Abhorrent’ Racist Comments During Zoom Video
03/11/21 AT 4:40 PM
Georgetown University has fired a white law professor after a Zoom video of her making racist comments about the academic performance of Black students in her class went viral.
On Thursday, a video of professor Sandra Sellers speaking to professor David Batson in a recorded zoom call went viral on Twitter. The post has since received more than 660,000 views in 24 hours.
“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. Happens almost every semester, and it’s like ‘oh come on,’” Sellers tells Batson.
Georgetown Law School terminated an adjunct professor Thursday after a video was posted on social media showing her making disparaging comments about Black students in a recorded conversation with another professor.
The professor, Sandra Sellers, is shown in the recording making negative comments about Black students’ academic performance.
The comments came at the end of a session of a class she taught jointly with the other professor and which was recorded for future viewing by students.
“I hate to say this,” Sellers says in the video recording of her conversation with another Georgetown law professor, David Batson. “I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks. Happens almost every semester. And it’s like, oh, come on. You get some really good ones. But there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”