Reason Magazine
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Prof. Alvin Mitchell was fired in part based on a letter he sent to a co-chair at Winston-Salem State University.
Mitchell argued that his letter was protected from employer retaliation by the First Amendment.
Mitchell v. of N.C. Bd. of Governors, decided April 4 by the North Carolina Court of Appeal.
Judge Hunter Murphy dissented in relevant part: "No evidence Petitioner intended his letter to be an effort to combat racism in academia or to advocate on the part of his students for funding to attend his preferred conference on that basis" Judge Murphy: The broader subject of academia's relationship with race has long been acknowledged as a subject of public concern.
Mitchell's use of racially-charged rhetoric in the letter was not a statement that Mitchell regarded Dr. Nation as lesser because of her race.
Petitioner's letter may have been prompted in the first instance by a student's concerns that Dr..
Nation had recommended the ASC over the RGC on a racially preferential basis.
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