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Duke Professor Stands by Racially Charged Comments
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18.05.2015
A Duke University professor under fire for online comments comparing African-Americans to Asians stood by his statement on Monday and said more honest debate is needed to achieve full racial integration in the United States. Responding to a New York Times editorial about how racism had "doomed" the African-American community in Baltimore long before recent riots, political science professor Jerry Hough argued that Asians "didn’t feel sorry for themselves but worked doubly hard" to overcome similar discrimination they had faced. Hough, who has taught at Duke for 40 years and was on academic leave while making his recent comments on the Times' website, said he did not expected any backlash, but appears to have welcomed it.
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