I would urge every reader of this essay to take the time to download and read the entire legal action as well. Klein had been instructed by his immediate academic supervisor NOT to grant black students (or anybody else) special exemption from finals. Klein's response, to a white student he'd had in another class and a student who would…
I would urge every reader of this essay to take the time to download and read the entire legal action as well. Klein had been instructed by his immediate academic supervisor NOT to grant black students (or anybody else) special exemption from finals. Klein's response, to a white student he'd had in another class and a student who would subsequently choose to take another course with him, consisted of a series of quite reasonable, good-faith questions about the workability of the proposed exemption. The (white) student replied to these questions in a similar good-faith tone and actually apologized! That should indeed have been the end of the matter. What followed could be called a comedy of errors, or a bonfire of the vanities, but it's also sad and infuriating--and a marker of where we are. Thanks for writing this, professor. Thanks, Bari, for publishing this. If reasonable, deliberative people still remain within the justice system, this case will win easily on the merits.
I would urge every reader of this essay to take the time to download and read the entire legal action as well. Klein had been instructed by his immediate academic supervisor NOT to grant black students (or anybody else) special exemption from finals. Klein's response, to a white student he'd had in another class and a student who would subsequently choose to take another course with him, consisted of a series of quite reasonable, good-faith questions about the workability of the proposed exemption. The (white) student replied to these questions in a similar good-faith tone and actually apologized! That should indeed have been the end of the matter. What followed could be called a comedy of errors, or a bonfire of the vanities, but it's also sad and infuriating--and a marker of where we are. Thanks for writing this, professor. Thanks, Bari, for publishing this. If reasonable, deliberative people still remain within the justice system, this case will win easily on the merits.