A former tenured professor at De Anza Community College in California has filed a 53-page lawsuit against her former employer alleging discrimination, wrongful termination and violation of her right to free speech.
The former professor, Tabia Lee, was the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education at the school.
She alleges she was terminated in June 2023 “because of her viewpoints and protected public speech and because of De Anza and the District’s ideological opposition to Dr. Lee’s humanism in the classroom.”
According to the lawsuit, Lee is Black and dedicated to “humanism and civil rights.” She alleges she teaches people to not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Alternatively, she claims that De Anza is “hostile to this concept.”
She is suing De Anza and also several school officials, including the president and her supervisor, the dean.
She alleges, “Defendants, acting within the scope of their employment and as employees of the District and De Anza, repeatedly informed Dr. Lee that she was not the ‘right kind of Black person.’”
Lee founded Free Black Thought, which is described as “an online journal and community of heterodox scholars and public intellectuals dedicated to the rich diversity of thought among and about Black Americans.” She claims that those who “publish in FBT are sometimes accused, as Defendants accuse Tabia Lee at De Anza, of not being the ‘right’ sort of Black...
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