{"id":270732,"date":"2023-07-05T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270732"},"modified":"2023-07-06T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:55:39","slug":"white-usc-professor-83-refuses-to-apologize-after-saying-her-career-would-have-been-better-if-she-was-black-and-lesbian-prompting-attendees-at-female-historians-conference-to-walk-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270732","title":{"rendered":"White USC professor, 83, refuses to apologize after saying her career would have been better if she was black and lesbian &#8211; prompting attendees at female historians conference to walk out"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lois Banner, a USC professor, is under fire for recent controversial comments<\/li>\n<li>Banner said that her career would be better if she were black and a lesbian<\/li>\n<li>The statements caused shock and outrage among those in attendance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hope Sloop \u2013 Daily Mail.com July 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A white USC professor is under fire after she said during a recent conference that her career and life would be easier if she were black and a lesbian.<\/p>\n<p>Lois Banner, a professor emerita of women&#8217;s history at the University of Southern California, spoke during the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Banner, 83, reportedly said she wished she were a lesbian because they had great communities and that her career would have been better if she were black.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You won&#8217;t change my mind, I&#8217;m 84 years old,&#8217; Banner allegedly said, refusing to apologize. Her words were shared by Stephanie Narrow, a student in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>According to conference guests, Banner&#8217;s antics came just moments after a black professor had spoken on racism and exclusion in the academic space.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote that the event &#8216;took a turn&#8217; after Banner &#8211; who she did not initially name &#8211; shared her extremely controversial opinions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A white senior scholar at the 50th anniversary plenary VERY publicly, and unapologetically, said that she wished she was Black so her professional life would be easier,&#8217; Narrow tweeted out Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The student said that the professor &#8211; who has a Ph.D. from Columbia University &#8211; was shunned for the comments which caused an uproar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She was immediately called out for her blatantly racist remarks, and refused to apologize, let alone listen, to the reason why her remarks were horrifying wrong.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Narrow went on to say that the &#8216;room was shaken,&#8217; calling the feeling that rippled through the auditorium &#8216;palpable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The student did not name Banner as the professor who had made the startling remarks until several hours later, but stated she had confirmed Banner&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Another crowd member, Paul Renfro of Florida State University, described the situation by saying that &#8216;s**t went absolutely off the rails.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A lot of folks (myself included) walked out due to a dreadfully racist comment made by one of the presenters,&#8217; Renfro tweeted on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She was reprimanded by several audience members, and quite a few attendees walked out,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12259897\/White-professor-refuses-apologize-saying-career-better-black.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Correctness \u2013 \u2018Wokeness\u2019 \u2013 dominates the educational establishment and the response to the professors&#8217; comments only confirms this <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":270734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270735,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270732\/revisions\/270735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}