‘UB Black faculty are disappointed with UB response to BLM movement’

‘UB Black faculty are disappointed with UB response to BLM movement’

“How can you not invest in the university, if it’s authentic and legitimate interest in the plight of people of color and African Americans, then how do you quietly dismantle those institutions and structures that are focusing on their needs.”

Alexandra Moyen and Reilly Mullen
Publication Year: 2020

Read the full article from The Spectrum, here.

UB Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., who has spent decades studying and writing about inequality, called the UB responses “just short of pathetic.”

Taylor, a professor in the department of Urban and Regional Planning, believes Foster’s letter was “right on target.” He and Foster are both executive members of the SUNY Black faculty group.

“I think it shows absolutely no understanding of the challenges that we face at this moment in time and they just oughta stop and give this to somebody that knows what they’re doing or talk to somebody that knows what they’re doing because it’s been pathetic,” Taylor said. “You know, this university has been backsliding in a lot of areas as it relates to race and class.”