On Friday, I had discussed the reassertion of respectability politics in the wake of the police violence and police shootings of last week. As part of that discussion, I noted an anonymous document detailing a set of students' objections to a professor wearing a #BlackLivesMatter t-shirt and law professor's response. I noted that the professor's response was a "well-crafted set of answers to those who object to the movement and deconstructs the fallacies imbedded in many of those objections."
Despite its anonymity, the document went viral. The remaining question about the post–who is the author?–has now been answered.
Inside Higher-Ed is reporting today that the writer of this post is Patricia Leary, Distinguished Teaching Professor at Whittier Law School. Professor Leary has been at Whittier since 1992. According to the school's website, she has been quite active in social justice causes inside and outside the classroom.
As I said in the prior post, I hope Professor Leary will read this post as an expression of gratitude for her work.