Silicon Valley community college officials said “White gays and lesbians” were not welcome in its LGBT center, called Jews “White oppressors” and refused repeated requests to address antisemitism, and forced staff to mouth a “land acknowledgment” that misidentified local indigenous tribes, according to a former diversity official.
The First Amendment lawsuit by Tabia Lee builds on allegations she made against De Anza College , Foothill-De Anza Community College District and officials after they declined to renew her contract this spring, which she called retaliation for challenging its “empty ‘antiracism’ gesture[s]” that reinforce racial stereotypes such as the “noble savage” and for acting like “an ‘uppity’ Black woman.”
Officials functionally shut Lee out of the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education where she had served as tenure-track faculty director since fall 2021 and “censored” her when she filed grievances, the suit claims.
One of her transgressions was letting students ask Black […]
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