What happens when you let the mob rule-----Students demand firing of black dean because she mixed up black students’ names | The College Fix

Students demand firing of black dean because she mixed up black students’ names | The College Fix

• ‘Implying they lack individuality’

...But what if the person mixing up names is herself black?

Student activists at Scripps College, a women-only member of the Claremont Consortium, are demanding the firing of Dean of Students Charlotte Johnson because she has a “pattern” of confusing black students for each other.
A petition to the Board of Trustees, dated June 14 but only brought to light Tuesday by The Claremont Independent, cited only two students whose names Johnson confused, however:

Dean Johnson has demonstrated unprofessionalism and disrespect through a pattern of calling Black students by the names of other Black students. For students who already experience acute systemic oppression within the institution it is especially painful to experience disrespect as an individual on an interpersonal level. Further, this is directly tied to race and is a very specific experience for Black people, implying they lack individuality. To do this says that their names are not worth remembering, that they are not worth remembering.

Johnson “consistently” called one black student by the name of another “who was three years older and several shades lighter,” and misidentified another student “over the past three years … despite being corrected everytime.” 

The dean never apologized, the student alleged...Read all.