Flyers on campus and a hashtag campaign from a white power group call for the assistant professor to be fired.
A white supremacist group (Oh brother–Ed.) known as the National Youth Front has launched a campaign aimed at Boston University Assistant Professor Saida Grundy. The group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a recent offshoot of the American Freedom Party and specifically targets college campuses.
A July 1 post on the National Youth Front’s website details the so-called #FIREGRUNDY campaign and shows several pictures of flyers posted throughout the campus, both indoors and outdoors. The flyers state “Black Privilege Means Not Being Fired After Saying That White College Males Are A Problem Population.”
Previously, Professor Grundy, who is part of the university’s sociology department, has come under fire for controversial remarks on social media.
The American Freedom Party, the parent group of the National Youth Front, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “is a political party initially established by racist Southern California skinheads that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule. The group is now led by a coterie of prominent white nationalists, including corporate lawyer William D. Johnson, virulent anti-Semite Kevin MacDonald and white nationalist radio host James Edwards. David Duke’s former right-hand man, Jamie Kelso, helps with organizing. The party has big plans to run candidates nationwide.”
In an article from earlier this year, the SPLC reports that the National Youth Front is intended to boost recruitment efforts for the American Freedom Party by focusing on colleges. Previous stunts include hanging posters on Arizona State University’s campus that called for a war on immigration. “Using the most recent covers of Charlie Hebdo as a backdrop, the flier was intended to be a call to action and an ominous warning: ‘America is ours, and we are tomorrow,’” the SPLC writes.
With regard to Boston University, the National Youth Front writes on its website:
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