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A George Washington University professor was ousted from his position teaching a human rights course after outraging students in a classroom discussion where he described his use of the n-word in a phone call with administration.
Professor Michael Stoil, an adjunct professor of political science at the Washington DC university and former CIA analyst, was removed from his position teaching the class after students filed three racial bias reports against him.
In an audio recording of a classroom discussion from September, Stoil could be heard telling his class how the school's vice provost was 'horrified' by his use of the n-word in a phone call where they were discussing his belief that the word should never be used.
'I used the N-word, and she was horrified,' Stoil told his classroom, according to The Hatchet. 'She says 'Oh my God, I felt that viscerally. It ran right through me, you used the N-word.' I said 'You don't listen to hip hop? You don't listen to some of the street music? They use it all the time.'
'Yeah, but they're Black people,' a student could be heard responding, while others agreed.
'Ok, I'm Eurasian,' Stoil said. 'Where do I fit in? Can we use it too?'
'No,' students replied.
'You're right, but the point is I didn't imagine that she would feel pain from the use of the N-word simply because, by the way, she didn't know what color I was,' Stoil said. 'This was on the telephone. I guess I don't sound Black. Does Barack Obama sound Black?'
Professor Michael Stoil, an adjunct professor of political science at the Washington DC university and former CIA analyst, was removed from his position teaching the class after students filed three racial bias reports against him
GW junior Keheirra Wedderburn said her 'hands were shaking' during the classroom discussion
Stoil has declined to comment on the remarks, saying only that they were misunderstood and that school officials directed him not to discuss the situation.
In an email to The Hatchet, he also said he would be leaving GW at the end of this semester, and said the school failed to provide him any support amidst the controversy.
'The University is no place for a 'color-blind' humanist whose effort to get students to think in terms of universal human rights has been so misinterpreted and received so little support from University
