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reported Monday that on February 25, Ms Chamberlin went on a public
Facebook thread and weighed in on a controversial article posted on
TheGrio.com condemning Patricia Arquette's Oscar speech, in which she
famously said that women deserve to get equal pay for equal work.
The
author of the opinion piece, writer and filmmaker Blue Telusma, who is
black, argued that African-Americans and members of the LGBTQ community
do not owe white women any assistance.
‘I
LITERALLY cry and lose sleep over this,’ Ms Chamberlin wrote in
reaction to the op-ed, revealing that she had been raped as a child.
‘What this article did was tell me that I'm not aloud [sic] to ask for
help… Because I am a WHITE woman… So when I read this article… you do
understand what that does to me, right? It kills me…’
In
response, a commenter by the name Sai Grundy, who used the same photo
as the BU professor on her now-private Twitter account, poked fun at the
married mother of two, writing: ‘I literally cry… While we literally
die.’
When
Mrs Chamberlin replied that she ‘got’ Grundy’s message and assured her
that she can now take her ‘claws’ out, the African-American studies
professor unleashed a torrent of vitriol in the form of a foul-mouth
message partially written in caps.
‘^^THIS IS
THE S**T I AM TALKING ABOUT. WHY DO YOU GET TO PLAY THE VICTIM EVERY
TIME PEOPLE OF COLOR AND OUR ALLIES WANT TO POINT OUT RACISM. my CLAWS??
Do you see how you just took an issue that WASNT about you, MADE it
about you, and NOW want to play the victim when I take the time to
explain to you some s**t that is literally $82,000 below my pay grade?
And then you promote your #whitegirltears like that’s some badge you get
to wear… YOU BENEFIT FROM RACISM. WE’RE EXPLAINING THAT TO YOU and
you’re vilifying my act of intellectual altruism by saying i stuck my
“claws” into you?’
Chamberlin
tried to extricate herself from the tense exchange by writing to
Grundy: ‘'I am choosing to "exit" this conversation, You don't know me. I
don't know you. It's really as simple as that.'
But Grundy continued piling on and ended up having the last word in the heated back-and-forth.
'^^YOU
DONT HAVE TO KNOW ME. what you SHOULD know is that you don't know more
about this issue than margenalized women. And instead of entering this
conversation with an iota of humility about that, you have made it a
celebration of your false sense of victimization. no [sic] go cry
somewhere. snce that's what you do.'
Chamberlin signed off with the words: 'Will do.'
Ms
Grundy wrote in a separate comment in the thread: 'am I mocking her
tears or am I saying that her tears are meaningless displays of emotions
because they don't reflect at ALL an intention to understand the issue
from the prospective [sic] of women of color and queer women.'
The entire conversation has since been removed from Facebook, along with Saida Grundy's social media account.
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