UC Berkeley Students Hold Teach-In for Their Racist Professor
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At UC Berkeley, a tenured mental health policy professor named Steven Segal has found himself in a bit of trouble, thanks to his conflation of black-on-black crime with the Black Lives Matter movement, and his eagerness to blame victims of oppression for their oppression—which is probably easy when you’re not oppressed yourself. (Segal is white. Perhaps he listens to the part of Kendrick Lamar’s “Blacker the Berry” that I choose to ignore?
According to the Bold Italic, Segal—who is unfortunately not the 1990s action film star—made some off-color comments last month during a Black Lives Matter event at UCB, going so far as to share a rap song he’d written. It’s not funny, but a rap song? Come on.