A black Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) director who was fired by her California community college filed a lawsuit last week accusing the school of “illegally targeting White people.”
Tabia Lee, a tenured faculty member, was fired in March by De Anza College, a public community college in the San Jose area, after she said she questioned antiracist “orthodoxy” in her position as DEI director.
“I was told that [I] was supposed to only advance what at that time I was calling a third-wave antiracism ideology,” Lee said in March.
On July 10, Lee filed a lawsuit against the college, alleging a hostile DEI department “illegally targeting White people on the basis of race.”
The complaint says Lee, who is black, was accused of “whitesplaining” and not being the “right kind of Black person.”
“She happens to be Black, but first and foremost, Dr. Lee is a teacher dedicated to humanism and civil rights,” the complaint reads. “She teaches that people should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. De Anza is hostile to this concept.”
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