{"id":358002,"date":"2018-04-23T05:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-prof-called-racist-for-trying-not-to-be-racist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T05:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:15:46","slug":"prison-planet-com-prof-called-racist-for-trying-not-to-be-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-prof-called-racist-for-trying-not-to-be-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Prof called racist for trying not to be racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10800\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 20, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>In an incident of public shaming, an anonymous student working on a theatre production for Pomona College\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pomona.edu\/academics\/departments\/theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatre and Dance Department<\/a> posted several posters on buildings throughout the campus accusing a faculty member\u2014Pomona College theatre lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pomona.edu\/directory\/people\/rose-portillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose Portillo<\/a>\u2014of being \u201cracist\u201d for asking the student to not include songs with the word \u201cn***a\u201d in them for an upcoming production.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The posters\u2014which were also posted on the theatre\u2014were titled as a \u201cPSA [Public Service Announcement].\u201d The content of the <a href=\"https:\/\/claremontindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fullsizeoutput_4fb.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster<\/a> includes Portillo\u2019s photos and the student\u2019s accusation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOn Tuesday, April 17th, I was organizing song cues for one of Pomona College\u2019 Theatre Department\u2019s upcoming productions. My professor <strong>Rose Portillo\u00a0<\/strong>[emphasis in original] walked up to me in class and said: \u2018Nothing with nigga in it.\u2019 I said \u2018don\u2019t say that.\u2019 She replied \u2018I\u2019m saying it.\u2019\u201d The student concludes the poster by stating \u201cThat\u2019s racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/nigga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dictionary\u2019s usage alert<\/a> of \u201cn***a,\u201d the term is \u201ctaken to be extremely offensive when used by outsiders,\u201d but is \u201calso common in rap music.\u201d The word is an \u201calteration\u201d of \u201cn****r,\u201d a derogatory term referring to persons of African descent that is contentious enough to warrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/mind-your-language\/2014\/may\/08\/mind-your-language-n-word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debate on whether the word should be printed out in media<\/a>. The poster does not clarify how asking a student to not include music with \u201cn***a\u201d in it is racist.<\/p>\n<p>Students often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pomona.edu\/academics\/departments\/theatre\/auditions\/production-crew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">work<\/a> on theatre productions alongside faculty for the department, with many positions in cast and crew, including production managers. The department puts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pomona.edu\/academics\/departments\/theatre\/productions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several productions<\/a> each academic year, with the latest production being a rendition of William Shakespeare\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pomona.edu\/academics\/departments\/theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pomona.edu\/academics\/departments\/theatre\/courses-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mission statement\u00a0<\/a>of the theatre department states that \u201c[the department] embodies the liberal arts&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/prof-called-racist-for-trying-not-to-be-racist.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformApril 20, 2018 In an incident of public shaming, an anonymous student working on a theatre production for Pomona College\u2019s Theatre and Dance Department posted several posters on buildings throughout the campus accusing a faculty member\u2014Pomona College theatre lecturer Rose Portillo\u2014of being \u201cracist\u201d for asking the student to not include songs with the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}