[ABC] UCLA race and equity director appears to wish death on Justice Thomas, calls him a 'token'

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UCLA race and equity director appears to wish death on Justice Thomas, calls him a 'token'
by ZACHARY ROGERS | The National Desk

Monday, March 28th 2022

LOS ANGELES (TND) — The director for Race and Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Johnathan Perkins, reportedly wished ill on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after news broke the justice had been hospitalized.

Perkins reportedly alludes to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when referring to Justice Thomas, calling him "Uncle Thomas."

The reference is a widely-known racial insult, meant to imply a Black person is "excessively obedient or servile to white people," according to the Oxford Dictionary.

Perkins then reportedly went as far to say Justice Thomas actually wasn't sick.

The publication reports Perkins offered a "non-apology apology" after his Twitter statements on Justice Thomas. Perkins has since privatized his account, making his tweets unviewable unless Twitter users are "approved followers."

Anna Spain Bradley, Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UCLA, told TND “this tweet does not reflect my or UCLA EDI’s views.”
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more at the link.

Good thing he's got academic freedom!

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my wife, who deals with these cases routinely at our university, says the justification for termination here is not so much the free speech issue on his personal twitter, which she routinely defends even if people say stupid things, but rather the direct connection to his official job title and duties. Her words: "That’s called the 'you’re too dumb to work here' rule" . . . . In essence the employer can say "you have lost our trust in you to do the job we hired you to do."