Northwestern law faculty refuse to explain why they introduced themselves as racists

Northwestern University law school faculty called themselves racists as they introduced themselves in an online townhall recently, according to a screenshot of the event.

The screenshot was obtained by conservative writer Rod Dreher, who noted in his tweet the meeting took place August 28.

“Everybody began w/ a ritual denunciation of themselves as racist. Reader: ‘Prof. Speta is not a racist. He is a wonderful man universally loved by students. It makes me sad that he is forced to say otherwise,’” Dreher tweeted.

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Emily Mullin, listed as the university’s executive director of major gifts, introduced herself as “a racist and a gatekeeper of white supremacy” and said she will “work to do better.”

She did not respond to requests asking her why she did this, whether she was coerced, what the goal of the exercise was, whose idea it was, and several other emailed questions sent at least three times last week. The deputy director of the law school’s Bluhm Legal Clinic, Sara Sommervold, also said she “is a racist” and “will try to do better.”

Professor James Speta, currently the interim dean of Northwestern University’s law school, wrote in the meeting chat: “I’m Jim Speta. And I am a racist.”

Sommervold and Speta ignored all three emails from The College Fix last week asking the same questions about the meeting, including whether they felt pressure and to explain the goal of the exercise.

How does anyone not run screaming from a work environment like that?