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Georgetown Law School has fired a professor for noticing and commenting on the fact that Blacks make up a disproportionate number of low-performing students in her class. Another professor has been placed on administrative leave. Adjunct professor Sandra Sellers was caught on video telling adjunct prof David Batson: I hate to say this. I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks.
Another professor who was seen nodding in agreement during the conversation has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
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 anoth...