Boston University president Robert A. Brown has responded to the public backlash facing newly hired professor Dr. Saida Grundy over tweets about white masculinity in America that some interpreted as racist.

Right Wing Twitter is loudly outraging itself today over the tweets of Dr. Saida Grundy, a new African American Studies professor at Boston University who dared to imply that white people were responsible for slavery and called “white college age males” a “problem population.”